List of German-language newspapers of Ontario explained

In nineteenth-century Upper Canada, German-language publications were in high demand. After the English and French, Germans were the third-largest immigrant group in Canada, most of which was concentrated in Waterloo County and its heavily German towns of Berlin (now Kitchener) and Waterloo, and most newspapers were established there to service the population. In any year between 1859 and 1908, Waterloo County typically had four German newspapers, and always between three and five. In the period from 1835 to 1914, nine German newspapers were founded in Berlin and Waterloo and six in Preston, New Hamburg and Elmira. German is the only language other than English or French to have had a flourishing newspaper press in Ontario; approximately thirty German newspapers were published in the province between 1835 to 1918.

Ontario's first German-language newspaper, Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung, was founded in Berlin in 1835, predating the town's first English-language newspaper by 18 years. German-language publications were not typically read outside of Ontario's German communities, leading them to focus their reporting on local news and interpretations foreign events. Due to their small readership, they exerted little political influence on anything other than a local level. Most publication were dependent upon a small population group and folded after only a few years, but the towns Berlin, Waterloo and New Hamburg each supported at least one German newspaper until 1909, by which time all competitors had either folded or amalgamated into Berlin's Berliner Journal.

On 25 September 1918, in the last weeks of the First World War, the Canadian government passed an Order in Council prohibiting "the publication of books, newspapers, magazines or any printed matter in the language of any country or people for the time being at war with Great Britain." The Order had the effect of banning German-language publications, leading to the 1918 closure of the last remaining German newspaper, the Berliner Journal (since renamed the Ontario Journal). Although the government repealed the order in January 1920, it was not until 1967 that another German-language newspaper appeared – the Kitchener Journal, which ceased publication in 1969.

In the wake of the Second World War, a surge in immigration of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe and Germany led to a small revival of Ontario's German-language newspapers. Toronto's German: italic=yes|das journal, first published in 2011, is presently Ontario's only German-language newspaper.^{[1] [2]}

Newspapers

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Place of publication	Frequency	Commenced	Ceased	Political alignment	ISSN / OCLC
Berlin Daily News	Berlin	Daily	1878	1878
Berliner Journal / Ontario Journal	Berlin	Weekly	1859	1918	Liberal (1859–1904), independent (1904–1918)		^[3]
Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung	Berlin	Weekly	1835	1840	Independent		^[4]
German: italic=yes|Canada Zeitung	Hamilton	Twice weekly	1856	1857
German: italic=yes|Canadische Volkszeitung	Hamilton / London	Weekly	1872	1876
German: italic=yes|Das Ottawa Echo	Ottawa	Monthly	1893	1893
das journal	Toronto	Biweekly	2011
German: italic=yes|Das Wochenblatt	Berlin	Weekly	1878	1878	Conservative		^[5]
German: italic=yes|Der Beobachter	Toronto / Preston	Weekly	1856	1867
German: italic=yes|Der Canadische Bauernfreund	Waterloo	Weekly	1854	1909	Conservative		^[6]
German: italic=yes|Der Canadische Beobachter	Preston	Weekly	1848	1850	Reform		^[7]
German: italic=yes|Der Canadische Kolonist	Stratford	Weekly	1864	1906	Reform
Der Deutsche Canadier und Neuigkeitsbote / Der Deutsche Canadier	Berlin	Weekly	1841	1865	Reform		^[8]
German: italic=yes|Der Deutsche in Canada	London / Hamilton	Monthly	1871	1876
German: italic=yes|Der Deutsche Reformer	Waterloo	Weekly	1863	1863	Reform		^[9]
German: italic=yes|Der Morgenstern	Waterloo	Weekly	1839	1841			^[10]
German: italic=yes|Der Neu-Hamburger Neutrale / German: italic=yes|Canadisches Volksblatt	New Hamburg	Weekly	1855	1908	Conservative		^[11]
German: italic=yes|Der Perth Volksfreund	Stratford / Listowel		1878	1883	Conservative
German: italic=yes|Der Wächter am Saugeen / German: italic=yes|Canada National-Zeitung	Neustadt	Weekly	1868	1882	Independent
German: italic=yes|Deutsche Post	Arnprior / Pembroke	Weekly	1901	1916	Independent
German: italic=yes|Deutsche Presse	Toronto	Weekly	1977				^[12]
German: italic=yes|Deutsche Rundschau	Cannington	Monthly	1997	2014			^[13] ^[14]
German: italic=yes|Deutsche Zeitung	Berlin	Weekly	1891	1908	Conservative		^[15]
German: italic=yes|Deutscher Canadier	Berlin	Weekly	1869	1870
German: italic=yes|Deutscher Canadier Und<br />Allgemeiner Anzeiger	Berlin	Weekly	1867	1869
German: italic=yes|Die Aytoner Fama / German: italic=yes|Der Canadische Volksfreund	Ayton / Neustadt	Weekly	1882	1892
German: italic=yes|Die Post	Walkerton		1878	1879	Reform
German: italic=yes|Die Prestoner Zeitung	Preston	Weekly	1856	1857			^[16]
German: italic=yes|Die Wespe	Wartburg	Weekly
German: italic=yes|Elmira Anzeiger	Elmira	Weekly	1870	1882			^[17]
German: italic=yes|Freie Presse	Berlin	Weekly	1886	1888	Conservative		^[18]
German: italic=yes|Hamburger Beobachter	New Hamburg	Weekly	1852	1856	Reform		^[19]
German: italic=yes|Hamilton Anzeiger	Hamilton		1879	1879	Conservative
Kitchener Journal	Kitchener		1967	1969
German: italic=yes|Neue Presse	Toronto	Weekly	2003				^[20]
The Hofbräuhaus News	Ottawa	Quarterly	2002	2014			^[21] ^[22] ^[23]
Walkerton Glocke / Die Ontario Glocke	Walkerton	Weekly	1870	1904	Conservative		^[24]
German: italic=yes|Welland Deutscher Telegraph	Welland	Weekly	1885	1886

See also

• List of early Canadian newspapers
• List of defunct newspapers of Canada
• History of Canadian newspapers
• German Canadians
• List of German-language newspapers published in the United States

References

Sources

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• Book: McKegney . Patricia P. . The Kaiser's Bust: A Study of War-Time Propaganda in Berlin, Ontario, 1914–1918 . 1991 . University of Bamberg Press . Wellesley . 0-9695356-0-0.
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External links

General

• Canadian Minority Media Database from the University of Alberta's Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
• Motz Family Fonds digital exhibit at the University of Waterloo Library.
• Newspapers on Microfilm at the Kitchener Public Library

Digitized newspapers

• Berliner Journal 1880–1916 copies (in German) digitized by Simon Fraser University
• Der Deutsche Canadier 1856–1864 copies (in German) digitized on Canadian Research Knowledge Network
• Der Deutsche in Canada 1872, 1874 copies (in German) digitized on Canadian Research Knowledge Network
• Das Echo 1893 copy (in German) digitized on Canadian Research Knowledge Network

Notes and References

1. Book: Das Journal. . . 843473149 . 19 May 2021.
2. News: das journal – Profile . das journal . 15 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201104152652/http://dasjournal.ca/profile/ . 4 November 2020 . live.

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12. Web site: Deutsche Presse . www.artsrn.ualberta.ca . Canadian Minority Media Database . 22 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210622113852/http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/MinorityMedia/items/show/1344 . 22 June 2021 . live.
13. Web site: Deutsche Rundschau . www.artsrn.ualberta.ca . Canadian Minority Media Database . 7 July 2021.
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20. Book: Neue Presse. . . 1083190036 . 22 June 2021.
21. Web site: The Hofbräuhaus News . www.artsrn.ualberta.ca . Canadian Minority Media Database . 23 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210623183911/http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/MinorityMedia/items/show/1341 . 23 June 2021 . live.
22. Web site: Status of The HBH News Publication Hard Copy . The Hofbräuhaus News . 23 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210623183751/http://www.thehbhnews.ca/WebPages/HBH%20News.html . 23 June 2021 . live.
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