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      The Joseph Schneider Haus Digital Collections are back online. Our Fraktur, Embroidered Towels, Pottery and Furniture collections are currently accessible. Feel free to browse through the artifacts and learn a little bit more about their origins and history.

      Cambridge Galleries' policy of collecting contemporary Canadian fibre art was established in 1986 to reflect upon Cambridge's historical connection to the textile industry as well as looking to the future, to new and innovative concepts in art-making. Acquisitions have been supported by annual fundraising events, acquisition grants from the Ontario …

      According to Andrew W. Taylor's "Our Today's and Yesterdays", an addition to the school was made in 1876. Photograph is mounted on a mat.

      It is believed that this image shows Waterloo Park, Waterloo, Ontario. Photograph, which is mounted on a mat, is in poor condition with distinct fading around edges.

      It is believed that this image shows a group of men mowing grass in Waterloo Park, Waterloo, Ontario. Photograph is mounted on a mat.

      Photograph is fading along the left edge and is mounted on a mat.

      Photograph has scalloped edges and is mounted on a mat.

      Photograph is mounted on a soiled mat.

      According to city and county directories, the Waterloo Manufacturing Company was located at 65-67 King Street South, Waterloo, Ontario between 1884-1959. Photograph mounted on a mat.

      Photograph mounted on a mat.

      According to city and county directories, the Waterloo Manufacturing Company was located at 65-67 King Street South, Waterloo, Ontario between 1884-1959. Photograph is mounted on a mat.

      Colour photograph of Ryan Taylor, a librarian at the Kitchener Public Library, and Kathryn Hansuld Lamb, a local historian and journalist. Ryan is seated on the left and Kathryn is standing.

      Photograph, which is mounted on a soiled mat, has been cut with uneven edges and is in poor condition. It is believed that the barn is English style and the home is an English cottage with a hip-roof. The photograph may have been taken in Oxford County.

      Between 1863 and 1864 Lewis Kribs established the Kribs saw mill on Forbes Street in Hespeler, Ontario. He managed the business for eighteen years and then passed on operations to his son, William Kribs. In 1902 the business was moved to Avenue Road, now Guelph Street, in Hespeler.

      In 1871 Christopher Kress purchased the North American Hotel in Preston, Ontario. The hotel, located on the corner of King and Fountain Streets, was enlarged in 1900 and renamed the Kress Hotel. James Esson was a photographer in Preston between 1870-1920. His studio was located at 113 Queen Street.

      The I.E. Bowman Tannery was founded in 1855. By 1861 it employed five people; two employees were engaged in tanning, while the other three made shoes. Photograph is mounted on matte board. This photograph appears on page 51 of "The Early History of Jakobstettel" by Virgil Martin. The I.E. Bowman …

      The church was built in 1914 and is located at 1376 King Street North, St. Jacobs, Ontario. Photograph has small pin holes on top and bottom and a small tear out at center bottom.

      According to the 1966 Vernon's City of Kitchener and Waterloo directory, the Cleason Snyder farm was located at 93 Lexington Road South, Waterloo, Ontario.

      See P008290 and P008428 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. The following photographs depicting this event have not been uploaded to Our Ontario: P008285, P008287 - P008289, …

      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 …