Posts for the Topic World War II

Salute to the Canadian Solider!

Monday, November 8, 2021 by Danielle Robichaud

Over the past year I’ve redescribed the initial set of records that make up the

Waterloo Digital Library

World War II

Schneider family collection

Gas masks for military and civilian use

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 by Martha Lauzon

In 1854, William Brown, Ashley Hibbard and George Bourn met in Montreal to start Brown, Hubbard, Bourn & Co., the first manufacturer of Caoutchouc (Indian rubber) footwear in Canada. Several mergers and acquisitions later, they became the Dominion Rubber Company in 1910, and in 1912 built the Dominion Tire factory in Berlin (now Kitchener) to meet the new demand for automobile tires.

women in the work force

Kitchener-Waterloo Survey 1944

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 by Martha Lauzon

In 1943, with the Second World War raging, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce began (rather optimistically) to plan for the coming peace, and they invited the Waterloo and Kitchener Boards of Trade to participate in an experimental fact-finding survey of Waterloo County (now Waterloo Region), to determine "economic facts about the past and present and the expectations of the future in their district".¹

The mandibles of Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking Man)

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by Martha Lauzon

In 1923, the first specimen (a molar) of a new human ancestor was found in Zhoukoudian, near Beijing, China. Many more fossils were found in the area, and Canadian paleontologist Davidson Black named this new ancestor Sinanthropus pekinensis, "Peking Man" (after the city of Beijing, spelled Peking before the Pinyin romanization system was adopted. The city was also known as Beiping or Peiping from 1928 to 1949). Today Sinanthropus is considered to be an example of Homo erectus.