b.1877 d.1954 (July 29)
M. Margaret Hill.
Henry Ratz was born in St Clements in 1877. He purchased a small sawmill in that Village in 1902. As business grew he opened a retail lumber business in St Clements in 1934 and which was destroyed by fire in 1951.
Sources
1. Vertical File, Waterloo Township, Kitchener – Public Library.
2. Obituary, Kitchener Waterloo Record, July 29, 1954
3. Waterloo County Councillors; A Collective Biography
4. WHS 1954 [illegible] on 1954
5. WHS 1984 vol 72 Hist of Village of St Clements The Sawmill
6. Kitchener-Waterloo Record, June 27, 1967
Henry "Harry" E. Ratz Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Henry "Harry" E. Ratz from the Ellis Little Papers. This biography has been transcribed exactly as written. Ellis Little was a local historian, who was the principal of Elizabeth Ziegler Public School.On his retirement, he invested much of his time in researching and writing about Waterloo's history. The Ellis Little Papers consist of extensive notes, papers and historical works.
- Notes
- Please scroll to the bottom of the page to see the transcribed text. To see the original document, please visit the Ellis Little Local History Room at the Main Branch of the Waterloo Public Library
Newspaper clipping about H.E. Ratz Lumber from June 27, 1967, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, attached to the original document. - Date of Original
- 1877-1954
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Hill, Margaret ; Ratz, Henry ; Ratz, Harry ; Ratz, Margaret
- Corporate Name(s)
- H.E. Ratz Lumber
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.161
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers: Men and Women of Our Past
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Ellis Little Papers
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
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