Historically Speaking

Back in the 1980s, Kitchener Public Library wanted to preserve local history from th...

Culture Days celebration, that we’ll be having a screening of the documentary,...

While my fascination with the monarchy has waxed and waned over the years, the death...

In June, we welcomed Doors Open Waterloo Region into the Grace Schmidt Room to film ...

On May 23rd KPL’s Central branch celebrated its sixtieth year at 85 Queen Stre...

Local history may seem intimidating, particularly if you didn’t grow up in the...

This is the second post in a six-part series exploring the different types of histor...

The Grace Schmidt Room has recently been honoured with the donation of the letters o...

This spring, we were delighted to announce the launch of our new website, History in...

Thanks to the digitization equipment in the Grace Schmidt Room of Local History (GSR...

This is a quick post to let you know that we are officially ‘open’ to th...

Do you have old 8 mm or Super 8 film reels that contain family memories or other sen...