B. 1808 D. 1908?
Married: Maria _____
In the early history of Waterloo members of the Schnarr family were influential pioneers. By the early 1850s Balthaser Schnarr had built a small hotel on the north-east corner of King and Duke Sts., calling it the Swan Hotel .Balthaser also opened a store on the opposite corner. In 1856 the hotel was sold to Henry Stauffer but the deal fell through. Hartmann Schnarr, a son of Balthaser and previously a weaver by trade, took over the responsibilities for both store and the Albion Hotel as now named. The 1861 Tremaine Map indicates that Hartmann is still the owner of these premises. But in 1864 the management of the establishment is in the hands of John Roos who had recently married Hartmann’s daughter Catherine. About this time in 1860 Schnarr, along with Joachim Kalbfleisch purchased the German language newspaper Die Canadische Bauerenfreund from Moses Springer but Schnarr soon sold his part of the business to Kalbfleisch.
Sources:
1. Tremaine Map, 1861, Kitchener Public Library.
2. Census Figures, Waterloo North, 1851.
3. Waterloo Mt. Hope Cemetery Records.
4. Ellis Little, Early Waterloo Hotels, unpublished.
5. Marg Rowell et al, Welcome to Waterloo.
6. The History of the German Language Press of Ont, 1835-1918.
Hartmann Schnarr Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Hartmann Schnarr 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
- Date Of Event
- 1808-1908
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Schnarr, Hartmann ; Schnarr, Maria ; Schnarr, Balthaser ; Stauffer, Henry ; Roos, John ; Schnarr, Catherine ; Roos, Catherine ; Kalbfleisch, Joachin ; Springer, Moses
- Corporate Name(s)
- Swan Hotel ; Albion Hotel
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.184
- 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
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