Primary Source Readings

Newspapers:

Ayr News [Ayr, Ontario, Canada] 1914 – 1915. 

Berliner Journal [Berlin, Ontario, Canada] 1914 – 1915.

Daily Berlin Telegraph [Berlin, Ontario, Canada] 1914 – 1915. 

The Elmira Signet [Elmira, Ontario, Canada] 1914 – 1915. 

The Hespeler Herald [Cambridge, Ontario, Canada] 1914 – 1915. 

The Waterloo Chronicle-Telegraph [Waterloo, Ontario, Canada] 1914 – 1915.

 

Census Data:

1871 Census of Canada, http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1871/Pages/about-census.aspx

1881 Census of Canada, http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1881/Pages/about-census.aspx

1891 Census of Canada, http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1891/Pages/about-census.aspx

1901 Census of Canada, http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1901/Pages/about-census.aspx

1911 Census of Canada, http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1911/Pages/about-census.aspx

Ancestry.ca has added census records dating back to 1825 for parts of Canada, to search these records go to http://www.ancestry.ca/Census

 

Other Resources:

Berlin Celebration of Cityhood 1912. Berlin: The German Printing and Publishing Co of Berlin, 1912.

Borden, R. “Canada at War.” Speech, Ottawa, ON, 18 August 1914. Wartime Canada. http://www.wartimecanada.ca/sites/default/files/documents/CanadaAtWar.Aug_.1914.pdf

Breithaupt, W.H. ‘The Saengerfest of 1875,’ 22nd Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society, Kitchener: 1935. “Busy Berlin Jubilee Souvenir 1897,” published by the Berlin News-Record,https://ia600303.us.archive.org/24/items/cihm_02113/cihm_02113.pdf

Maclean Rose, G. ed. A Cyclopæedia of Canadian Biography: being chiefly men of the time: a collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life: leaders in the commerce and industry of Canada, and successful pioneers. Toronto: Rose Publishing Co., 1886. http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.91595

Ontario Archives Visual Database, http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/index.asp