A black and white photograph of a horse drawn streetcar on King Street in Waterloo, Ontario. A group of men is standing on the front platform of the car and several children are watching from the sidelines.
A black and white photograph of a horse drawn streetcar on King Street in Waterloo, Ontario. A group of men is standing on the front platform of the car and several children are watching from the sidelines.
According to a 29 June 1929 article in the Kitchener Daily Record, H.U. Clemens drove the first horse drawn streetcar between Berlin and Waterloo and remained a motorman until 1904 when the line was electrified.
The image is identified as having been taken on the block just south of the Canadian National Railway tracks and east of King Street.
The article noted that Mr. Clemens is driving the car and that others included in the image were: Rudolph Roschman, Tom McLellan, Dr. Wells, the father of C.W. Wells of Waterloo, Isaac Hoffman, Edward Doersam and Joseph Raising, a bakery operator, in front of whose property the image was taken.
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