A History of Kitchener, Ontario

W.V. (Ben) Uttley

• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Year: 1975
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780889205758
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

William V. Uttley's outline of Kitchener's growth from the 1840's into 20th century [is] shot through with a reassuring consistency and integration of purpose .... The complex of life as we still know it—social freedom and social restraint, economy and ecology—has its genesis here in the account compiled by William Uttley. His work comes as close to a personal anecdotal history of the city as we can hope to retrieve, a spotted chronicle of a community that can never exist again, and one in which almost every reader will find a point where past confronts present as nostalgia tugs against progress.

Table of contents

• Contents
• 1. First Settlements in Waterloo County
• 2. Joseph Schneider, founder of the City, Benjamin Eby, Samuel Eby, Indian Sam Eby, and John Brubacher
• 3. The First Mennonite Church
• 4. Early Form of Municipal Government
• 5. The German Mechanics
• 6. A Village in the Making
• 7. St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
• 8. Zion Evangelical Church
• 9. Trinity United Church
• 10. Church of the Good Shepherd and Carmel Church
• 11. Glimpses of the Eighteen-Forties
• 12. The City's Post-Offices
• 13. The Stage Coaches
• 14. Organization of Waterloo County, Officials, etc
• 15. The Climb. Industries, Railways, a Bank, and Roadways
• 16. The Benton Street Baptist Church
• 17. Citizens Incorporated a Village in 1854
• 18. The Stadthalle and other matters
• 19. St. Mary's Catholic Church and daughter churches
• 20. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
• 21. The High School and Collegiate
• 22. Church of St. John the Evangelist
• 23. Alma Street Church of the United Brethren in Christ
• 24. The Catholic Separate Schools
• 25. Citizens of the Sixties and other notes
• 26. Merchants from the Fifties till the Seventies
• 27. The Evangelical Lutheran St. Peter's Church
• 28. Townward
• 29. St. Jerome's College
• 30. Under a Town Charter
• 31. Jacob Y. Shantz, the Colonizer
• 32. The Bethany Mennonite Church
• 33. Association Football
• 34. The Turning Point
• 35. The Public Schools
• 36. The Tempo Quickened
• 37. The Busy Nineties
• 38. The Musical Society's Band and Musicians
• 39. The General Hospital—Y.M.C.A.—The Orphanage
• 40. City Parks
• 41. The Kirmes
• 42. Grand River Railway—First Automobile—Rubber Footwear
• 43. The First Church of Christ, Scientist
• 44. The King Street Baptist Church
• 45. The Story of the Waterworks
• 46. The Euler Business College
• 47. Merchants of the Eighties and After
• 48. Banks and Bankers
• 49. The Twentieth Century—New Industries
• 50. Beet Sugar
• 51. Niagara Power—Inception of the Project
• 52. The Lawn Bowling Club
• 53. St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
• 54. Experiments—Made-in-Berlin Exhibition—Shirt Companies, Etc
• 55. Wm. H. Breithaupt, C.E., and Grand River Control
• 56. The Pentecostal Tabernacle
• 57. The Power Investigators Report—Arrival of Niagara Power
• 58. Women's Activities
• 59. The St. Lawrence Seaway
• 60. The Waterloo Historical Society
• 61. Berlin Becomes a City
• 62. The Leaven of Progress
• 63. The First English Lutheran Church
• 64. The Freeport Sanatorium
• 65. Before and After the Great War
• 66. The Board of Trade
• 67. Additional Industries
• 68. Societies and Service Clubs
• 69. Walter P. Zeller
• 70. Brief References
• 71. Comment
• 72. Errata
• Index