King Street Railway, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Photograph of men working on a rail line at the north east corner of King Street and Erb Street. The shop front of H.A. Zoellner, Druggist, can be seen in the background, and the photo is labelled as Conrad Block. Note the electrical pole, the unpaved street and the wooden sidewalks.
- Notes
- Likely construction of tracks for electric street railway between Kitchener and Waterloo.
Construction of the street railway lines began in July 1888.
Horse drawn railway cars operated between 1889 and 1895 at which time the whole system was converted to electric cars. The company was taken over by the Town of Berlin (Kitchener) in 1907. Streetcar operations in Kitchener came to an end on December 27, 1946.
- Date of Original
- [ca. 1888]
- Date Of Event
- [ca. 1888]
- Dimensions
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Width: 18 cm
Height: 13 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 18cm
Image Height: 13cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- A-3-10; J-5-15; Neg. No. 084
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.465187 Longitude: -80.522372
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
