Kitchener (Berlin):: 1880-1960

Kitchener, Ontario, is a community with two histories. As Berlin, it was a rapidly growing and prosperous town reveling in its Germanic heritage. After dramatic civic upheavals from 1915 to 1919, it emerged, somewhat bruised, as Kitchener. From a twenty-first-century viewpoint, there often appears to be a disconnection between the two. Kitchener
(Berlin): 1880—1960 challenges this perception and bridges the two histories. Using mostly unpublished photographs, many from the Waterloo Historica...