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Local History

Special Collections holds a wide variety of resources of interest to those researching the local and urban history of the Kitchener-Waterloo area.

Archives, maps, photographs, land registry records, books, serials, and newspapers are available for consultation.

• Books, periodicals, and government publications
• Family and institutional archives and papers
• Land Registry copy books
• Maps
  • Fire insurance plans
  • Schantz/Russell family papers. Series 13: Maps
• Photographic/visual records

Links to other sources of local history information:

• Waterloo Region Museum
• Waterloo Historical Society
• Wellington County Historical Society
• Historical Society of St. Boniface and Maryhill Community
• Guelph Historical Society
• Wellington County Museum & Archives
• City of Cambridge Archives (City of Cambridge, Ontario, Administration, Public Access and Council Services Dept.)
• Region of Waterloo Archives

Links to other libraries with local history information:

• Kitchener Public Library, Grace Schmidt Room of Local History
• Waterloo Public Libary, Ellis Little Local History Room
• Wilfrid Laurier University Library, Archives and Special Collections

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