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      Black and white photograph of bridge over Elora Gorge, near Elora, Ontario.

      Black and white photograph of Victoria Park, Berlin, Ontario, showing a stream with a swan.

      Black and white photograph of bridge over Niagara River, near Niagara Falls, Ontario.

      The photographer was Herman Lippert (1886-1963), of Kitchener, Ontario. There are two postcards depicting this same image in the Waterloo Historical Society photograph collection (local identifiers P000375_c2 and P000375_c3) which have not been uploaded to OurOntario.ca.

      A photograph showing the same storefront appears in Berlin Today 1806-1906. According to the 1901-1903 Vernon's City of Berlin and Waterloo directory, the C.W. Hagen shoe store was located on the north side of King Street East, Berlin, Ontario, just past Scott Street. The directory does not list a street …

      Talmon Henry Rieder was born in New Hamburg, Ontario, on 10 August 1878. He died, at the age of 43, on 15 April 1922, leaving four children and his wife, the former Martha M. Anthes, whom he married in 1906. In 1899, he was the bookkeeper and minor shareholder of …

      Born on 12 January 1830 in Ayrshire, Scotland, David Spiers came to Canada with his family at an early age. At age nineteen he moved from Hamilton to Galt where he first worked at William & Elliott Company and then purchased Robert Wallace's grocery store. He briefly operated a tanning …

      Born in 1832 in Shillelagh, County Wicklow, Ireland, Thomas Pearce came to Canada at the age of twenty-three. He attended the Toronto Normal School and then found employment as first assistant at Central School, later named Suddaby School, in Berlin, Ontario. In 1864 he became principal of the school and …

      In 1901, the Ontario Sugar Company of Toronto planned to build the first sugar beet mill in Canada in either Dunnville or Berlin, Ontario. Interested in learning more about the sugar beet industry, the Berlin Board of Trade organized an excursion of Berlin citizens to the Peninsular Sugar Refining Company …

      This photo was taken on the First Anniversary Review of the Lexington Branch Institute on 6 February 1963. The photograph was taken in the Board Room of the Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association on Lexington Road, Waterloo. The office of the Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association was located on Lexington Road, east …

      A black and white reproduction of this photograph image (local identifier P000357_c1) has not been uploaded to Our Ontario.

      St. Jerome's College was founded by Reverend Dr. Louis Funcken, Congregation of the Resurrection, in 1865.

      Black and white photograph of Courtland Avenue School in Berlin, Ontario. The building was originally constructed in 1890 as a four-room school. This photograph appeared in the Kitchener Centennial, 1854-1954, booklet under the caption: Courtland Avenue School at start of Century.

      The church was built between 1851-1853 on property located south of Highways 7 and 8, which was the site of Irvin Knipfel's farm in 1951. This building was replaced by the present church in 1916. The present church was constructed on property located north of Highways 7 and 8 on …

      Road shown in photograph believed to be Queen Street South, towards Schneider Creek.

      This photograph likely dates back the 1920's as Queen Street is being paved in the background.

      See P008290 and P008286 for photographs of the Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation's presentation to Grace Schmidt. A photograph of this event appears on page 33 of the 1988 Waterloo Historical Society annual volume. Images P008285, P008287 - P008289, and P008291 - P008294 depicting this event have not been uploaded to …

      In 1877, the Central School of Berlin was selected by the provincial Minister of Education, on the recommendation of the County Inspector, for one of the Model Schools for the training of third class teachers. Jeremiah Suddaby was appointed the first principal. The last session of the Model School at …

      Photograph, along with biography of David Norman Panabaker, appears in 1939 Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume. Mr. Panabaker was the President of the Waterloo Historical Society between 1927-1937. He died on 2 August 1939.

      Black and white, group, studio portrait of the children of Enoch Detwiler and Abigail Bechtel. Family members are identified as follows, from left to right: (back row) Noah, Hannah, Suzannah, Aaron; (middle row) George, Mary Anne, Jacob; (front row) Sarah, Dan.