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Rye and Ginger: 1916 Project: 20-26 October 1916: The saga of John Sugar Beet Jones

ca. 1915. Sir Robert Borden, Canadian Prime Minister, opens Victory Bond campaign in Toronto. Mayor Thomas Langton Church is at extreme left. Photo by William James. Public Domain.

A call for “Canadian Manhood Power”

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Rye and Ginger: 1916 Project: 13-19 October 1916: Cheerless puddings

Dairy herd, Bodalla (Australia). Gift of Australian Consolidated Press under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1985.

Not Kitchener

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Rye and Ginger: 1916 Project:22-28 September 1916: Oh! Huronto! He was passionately fond of dahlias

Black and white photograph of 118th Soliders relaxing (1916-1918). Image citation: Kitchener Public Library. Image citation P009597. Kitchener Public Library Collection.

First, we take Ontario; then we take Canada

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Rye and Ginger: 1916 Project: 15-21 September 1916: Abstemious Ontario

ca 1880s. Group of five unidentified men with glasses of beer and a keg. Possibly brewery employees. Image Citation: Waterloo Public Library, C-5-19

Fewer drunks, more money

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Rye and Ginger: 1916 Project: 08-14 September 1916: Boys and Girls

11 September 1916 118th Battalion, Presentation of the Colours, Victoria Park, Kitchener. Photographer unknown, possibly Gordon Eby (1890-1965) (Der).

Boys and Girls

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Rye and Ginger: 1916 Project: 25-31 August 1916: The Bread Police

Black and white photograph of residence and bakery of Louis Bardon located at 66 Foundry Street, Berlin, Ontario. (before 1906) Image Citation: Kitchener Public Library. P008295

Kitchener will come in quiet

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Rye and Ginger: 1916 Project: 11-17 August 1916: Sausages in the summer kitchen

JM Schneider plant. ca. 1909-1914 Photograph by Norman Schneider (JM Schneider’s son).

Pflaumenkuchen!

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Rye and Ginger: 1916 Project: 04-10 August 1916: Two years of war

Field kitchen – presented to 95th Batt. C.E.F. by Riverdale Business Men’s Ass’n., 1915. A. W. Barton. Glass plate negative. Reference Code: C 121-1-0-13-1 Archives of Ontario, I0019309

Let It Rain

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Rye and Ginger: 1916 Project: 28 July – 03 August 1916: A tale of two Kitcheners

Happy Days Washing Machine Postcard (1910) Wikimedia Commons

Held up by the post(master)

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Rye and Ginger: 21-27 July 1916: The Citizens’ League

Two artillery shells manufactured during WWI by Canadian Buffalo Forge Company of Berlin (ON) and Goldie & McCulloch of Galt, 1915. City On Edge exhibition, Waterloo Region Museum 2016.

Kitchens, at home and for the boys

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Rye and Ginger: 14-20 July 1916: The boys do their own laundry

Canadian-built 1916 Ford Model T Touring. Image Credit: Flickr/vinnyrvg

Life at Camp Borden

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Rye and Ginger: 07-14 July 1916: We’ve got the beets

1916. Training for trench warfare at Camp Borden. Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol (Flickr) Object ID 2007.0062.200

Leaving Carling Heights. Arriving at Camp Borden.

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Rye and Ginger: 30 June-06 July 1916: An awful muddle

(After 1911) King Street, Waterloo, Ontario Postcard. C 5 20. Waterloo Public Library. Alexander house is the grey building on the right hand side

Dominion Day, 1916

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Rye and Ginger: 23-29 June 1916: The people have spoken

Berlin, Ontario’s 1916 referendum ballot to choose a new name. Public Domain. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons

The long, slow vote to a new name

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Rye and Ginger: 16-22 June 1916: Woah, woah, woe! Waterloo

(191?) Bridgeport Bridge, Bridgeport, Ontario Postcard. P000354. Waterloo Historical Society Collection

"The ABBA edition" of Rye & Ginger.

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Rye and Ginger: 09-15 June 1916: Word from the King

Psycho Cycles, poster by G. Moore, ca. 1892. Image credit: Pinterest

Huzzah?

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Rye and Ginger: the 1916 Project:02-08 JUNE 1916:

George Rumpel (1850-1916)

WELCOME TO HURONTOBERCANADUNARDRENOMAAGNOLEOHYDRO CITY

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26 MAY-01 JUNE 1916: OH COMMITTEE! WHAT HAST THOU DONE?

Colour postcard of Berlin, Ontario, showing the train station, the Carnegie Library, the Court House, two scenes of Victoria Park, and the Post Office. (postmarked 1914) Image Citation: Waterloo Historical Society. P000246

Sorting through thousands and thousands of names

A detail of Kitchener's Great Renaming of which I was previously unaware:

"Mayor Hett and Waterloo’s Mayor Hilliard spoke on behalf of the joint amalgamation committee, who wanted to have “Waterloo” as one of the six names shortlisted. That way, Berliners could (in a sense) vote to join their city with the neighbouring town."

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Rye and Ginger: the 1916 Project: 19-25 MAY 1916: BYE-BYE, BERLIN! BYE-BYE, BOYS!

Members of the 118th (North Waterloo) Battalion leaving the Berlin train station for training in London, Ontario. Photograph by Denton, Ernest (1883-1957), 1916. P000488. Waterloo Historical Society Collection

15 May 1916: Colonel Lochead’s open letter to Berliners

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Rye and Ginger: the 1916 Project12-18 MAY 1916: MAYOR HETT IN THE HOT SEAT

1910 Berlin Post Office (postcard). Image source Virtual Reference Library

Preserving Berlin’s patriotism for all eternity