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The city of Berlin, Ontario, Canada, changed its name to Kitchener by referendum in May and June 1916. Named in 1833 after the capital of Prussia and later the German Empire, the name Berlin became unsavoury for residents after Britain and Canada's entry into the First World War.
One hundred years ago, a thriving Canadian city disappeared from the map. As of Sept. 1, 1916, the southwestern Ontario community of Berlin ceased to be. On a grim day in the middle of a war fought to assert Canada’s best values, bullies and xenophobes won a battle for control of our national identity.
Kitchener is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, about 100 km (62 mi) west of Toronto. It is one of three cities that make up the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and is the regional seat. Kitchener was known as Berlin until a 1916 referendum changed its name.
A city of 19,000 people rooted in its century-old Germanic heritage was forced to deny its own existence, succumbing to the acts of intimidation and accusations of disloyalty perpetrated by...
Sept. 1, 1916 the Ontario city of Berlin changed its name to "Kitchener." In addition to anti-German wartime sentiment, a major driver of the change was economics.
Berlin Ontario, Kitchener Ontario, Lord Herbert Kitchener, historic city name changes, controversial places, World War I in Canada, Anti-German sentiment Description This project chronicles the name change from Berlin to Kitchener, and the key factors that influenced this name change.
Sep 1, 2016 · In a small but growing city of 15,000 people in southern Ontario, there was a very different sort of tension. Berlin, as it was called, was primarily settled by Mennonite immigrants of German...
