Regional development, industry, and settlement

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  • SCA holds a variety of local history resources related to development, industry, and settlement in what is today the Region of Waterloo. Collections include maps, fire insurance plans, business and city directories, yearbooks from local high schools, government documents outlining local county or village by-laws, and newspapers including restored copies of issues of the _Berliner Journal_ for the years 1859-1889. The department is also home to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection, which documents local news events, community activities, regional development, and human-interest stories between 1938-2001.

    Many of SCA’s local history collections consist of the institutional archives of local businesses and organizations, such as Dare Foods Limited, Electrohome, Fritsch Pharmacy, the Dominion Rubber Company, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, and the Rotary Club of Kitchener. In addition, the department maintains the papers of the Breithaupt, Bolender Ball, Ratz, Rieder, Schantz, and Schneider families, among many others. These collections complement several printed genealogies, family histories, and monographs also held by the department.

    Combined, topics of note in these collections include cultural and community association development, family planning, mourning and grief as understood through spiritualism, and the lives of early settler families, including those of women and children.

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            23 Archival description results for Regional development, industry, and settlement

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            Sunnyside School photograph.
            SCA290-GA325 · Collection · September 29, 1944

            Fonds consists of one photograph of students at Sunnyside School, taken September 29, 1944. Identifications included on verso read:

            • Newman, L.;
            • Wishnewski, Dieter;
            • King, Jack;
            • [?], Shirley;
            • Speers, Kathleen;
            • Holmes, Dorothy;
            • Gingrich, Billy;
            • Krestel, Elsie;
            • Fyfe, Audrey;
            • Wagner, Betty;
            • Killens, Jean;
            • Yerdt, Virginia;
            • Eby, Diane;
            • Cochrane, Shirley;
            • Cressman, Lois;
            • Sherwin, Fred;
            • Flaherty, Noreen;
            • Stahle, [?];
            • Heintzman, [?];
            • Yendt, Marlene;
            • Brubacher, Pauline;
            • Braniff, [?];
            • Boyd, Jerry;
            • Schaus, Donald;
            • Killen, Jackie;
            • Brox, Freddie;
            • Petznick, Ronald;
            • King, Buddy;
            • Wishnewski, Edith;
            • Lantz, Helen;
            • Dickin, Laura;
            • McCaig, Marian;
            • Maguire, Betty;
            • Hoadley, Mildred.
            Sunnyside School
            Sims Family collection.
            SCA369-GA427 · Collection · 1833-1963

            The Sims family collection encompasses records of the Sims and Cook, Davidson and Garden families retained by members of the two family branches that came together when Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos married in 1902. Their Sims and Davidson forbears were equally significant in the history of the Waterloo-Wellington area and in the growth and development of agriculture, education, business and government. Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos were deeply involved in their local community of Berlin, (later Kitchener) Ontario and their own records contain significant additions to our knowledge of local personalities and affairs. Harvey was a childhood and lifelong friend of William Lyon Mackenzie King; they wrote and visited each other regularly. King's sister Bella was also a close friend of Florence from school days on.

            Sims family
            Schneider family photograph.
            SCA246-GA249 · Collection · 1907

            One studio portrait of the children of Joseph E. Schneider (son of Joseph Schneider). From left to right: David, Louisa, Barbara, Lydia(?), Maria(?), Hannah, Samuel.

            Schneider, Joseph E. family
            SCA325-GA366 · Collection · 1856-1957

            File consists of materials relating to the Rutherford family of Wellesley, Ontario. Includes a subscription list for building a church in Wellesley (dated 1856), a snapshot of Harriet Rutherford Hess and four mounted portraits of members of the Rutherford family. These are identified on the verso as William Rutherford, his wife Mary Jane Freeborn Rutherford, his mother-in-law Jane Freeborn Rutherford and a first wife Ellen Freeborn Rutherford.

            Rutherford family
            SCA198-GA175 · Collection · [19--]

            One formal group portrait.

            Back row, left to right: Senator Robb, N. Asmussen M.P.P., J.A. Scellen, W.T. Sass, Hon. James Malcolm, John A. Lang, W. Max Euler.

            Middle row, left to right: W.J. Motz, Mr. King's secretary, H.J. Sims, Mrs. J. Cole, Mayor Greb, Premier King, Hon. W.D. Euler, Mrs. Peden Mielke, Mrs. Leonard Oliver, Senator Dr. Rankin.

            Front row, left to right: Mrs. Max Euler, Miss Rankin, Mrs. W.D. Euler, Mrs. W.J. Motz.

            Denton, Ernest
            SCA413-GA481 · Collection · 1909

            One photograph mounted on cardboard of the Municipal Council of the town of Berlin, dated 1909. The black and white photograph shows 15 adults dressed in suits and posed seated or standing in front of an ornately painted backdrop.

            • Back row, from left to right is Edwin Whyte Clement, F. W. Sheppard, Joseph Roman Winterhalt, and Frederich “Frederick” Bornhold.
            • Middle row from left to right is Charles Boehmer Dunke, William Daum Euler, William Robert Wilkinson, Alexander Hugh Millar, H. Martin, and John R. Schilling.
            • Front row from left to right is reeve David Gross Jr. (George “David" Gross), third deputy reeve Henry Anthony Dietrich, Mayor Charles Casper Hahn who served from 1909 to 1910, second deputy reeve John F. McKay, and first deputy reeve Nicholas Asmussen.

            Among the subjects are three individuals who would later serve as mayor of Berlin or Kitchener following its 1916 name change: William Daum Euler (1914-1917), David Gross Jr. (1917-1919), and Nicholas Asmussen (1925 -1926). William Daum Euler was also elected to the House of Commons of Canada (1917) and Nicholas Asmussen to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1919-1926). Both represented Waterloo North, Ontario in their Federal political office.

            SCA98-GA68 · Collection · 1938-2001

            More than 2 million negatives taken between 1938 and 2001 by staff photographers at the Kitchener-Waterloo Record (KWR) and its predecessors. Providing a historical look at the Region of Waterloo, the Collection includes documentary photographs of local news events, community activities, regional development, human-interest stories, businesses, schools, and sports teams. Portraits of business and community leaders, as well as commissioned photos taken for advertising purposes, are part of the Collection. It also includes scrapbooks containing clippings and pictures that appeared in the paper from 1971 to 1995.

            Kitchener-Waterloo Record
            SCA201-GA178 · Collection · 1923

            One photograph of a section of King Street, Waterloo, Ont. showing recently completed paving work by Standardite Paving. Also visible in the photograph are streetcar tracks, early street lights and automobiles.

            Denton, Ernest
            SCA253-GA264 · Fonds · 1946-1948

            23 photographs from the wedding of Gordon Fraser and Olive A. Rennie, June 20, 1946 at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. Includes photographs of the church interior, as well as of the bridal party at the reception at the bride's home at 35 Fairview Ave., Kitchener. Also includes one mounted photograph of the wedding of George Biehn to Elva Capling, in which Gordon Fraser was best man.

            Fraser, Gordon
            SCA436-GA509 · Collection · ca. 1900

            Collection consists of 21 glass plate negatives showing people and buildings around the former town of Newbridge, Ontario.

            SCA291-GA326 · Collection · [1928?]

            One photograph of students of the First Mennonite Church bible school. Students are shown outside in front of the church building.

            SCA265-GA283 · Collection · July 1939

            File consists of one photograph of the employees of the head office of the Dominion Life Assurance Company in Waterloo, Ontario. The photograph was taken July 1939. The employees are standing in front of the building at 14 Erb Street West.

            Dominion Life Assurance Company
            Concordia Club fonds.
            SCA141-GA114 · Accession · 1895-1997, predominant 1950-1997
            Part of Concordia Club fonds.

            The majority of the archives of the Concordia Club were destroyed either as a result of the ransacking of the club by the 118th Batallion in 1916, or as a result of the fire of November 17, 1971. As a result the earliest records of Concordia have largely been lost forever. A very small number of items can be traced back to the Concordia Male Choir (1873-1914). These take the form of two items of correspondence, programs for the "Sängerfests", clippings, and photographs. A small number of archival records also can be found which belonged to the "Deutscher Club, Kitchener" (1925-1930), and include a set of house rules, letters patent, and photographs. Some records from the 1930s have also been preserved to this day, and include artifacts, clippings, legal documents, a membership list, photographs, and programs of events. However, the majority of the materials date from the 1950s onwards. These materials document the history of the Concordia Club since the 1950s, and include artifacts, audiovisual material, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, financial records, legal documents, membership records, minutes of meetings, photographs, publications, and scrapbooks.

            Concordia Club
            SCA343-GA392 · Collection · September 2, 1899-May 19 1961

            Collection includes photographs taken by Charles Dickens Creighton of Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, France and England all around the turn of the 20th century. These include primarily landscapes and architectural features. Also included are 11 Kelsh plotter aerials of Kitchener from the 1960's.

            Creighton, Charles Dickens
            SCA193-GA168 · Collection · 1929-2003

            Collection consists primarily of negatives taken by Charles Belair during the course of his professional career as a photographer. The images include those of local families, events and buildings in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. The collection includes some 21, 000 negatives as well as in some cases accompanying prints, transparencies, and contact sheets.

            Belair, Charles
            SCA411-GA478 · Collection · August 20, 1947

            One photograph of the Budds Department Store annual picnic, held August 20, 1947. The photograph shows 82 people, including men, women, and children. The picnic attendees appear to include the owners and employees of the three Budds Department Store locations, as well as their families. The photograph was taken outside in an undisclosed location and the subjects appear relaxed and informal.

            Budds Department Store
            SCA225-GA213 · Collection · [1924?]

            Consists of one group photograph of a construction crew, purportedly for Bridgeport School. They are posed with a sign: "John V. Gray Construction Co. Ltd, General Contractors, head office Toronto ...."

            Denton, Ernest
            SCA168-GA142 · Collection · [191-?]

            One undated photograph showing a Breithaupt Leather Co. truck in front of the Shipping Dept. at the tannery, which was located in Kitchener, Ontario.

            Denton, Ernest
            SCA293-GA328 · Collection · 1951

            File consists of one photograph of conference attendees at the B.F. Goodrich industrial products conference. Identifications from verso:

            • Ratz, L.G.
            • Hagey, Joseph Gerald
            • Conner, C.F.
            • Muter, F.A.
            • Griffin, V.O.
            • MacDonald, G.M.
            • Bailey, H.E.
            • Holden, L.W.
            • Glaister, W.A.
            • Suddick, P.J.
            • Lee, E.N.
            • Wood, L.
            • Hall, J.
            • Laidlaw, H.G.
            • Laidlaw, R.J.
            • Heeg, J.J.
            • Dorken, W.R.
            • Brown, J.V.
            • Hamilton, R.W.
            • Schwindt, G.W.
            • Haring, N.F.
            B.F. Goodrich
            SCA204-GA529 · Accession · 1888-1946, predominant 1888-1922
            Part of Breithaupt Hewetson Clark collection.

            Fonds consists of material relating to the life and activities, both business and personal, of Albert L. Breithaupt from his 18th year on. Includes correspondence in German from his mother, Catharine Hailer Breithaupt. Includes correspondence, diaries, legal and financial documents, ephemera and photographs.

            Breithaupt, Albert Liborius