List of German-language newspapers of Ontario

In the period from 1835 to 1914, nine German newspapers were founded in Berlin and Waterloo and six in Preston, New Hamburg and Elmira.

[7] 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.

[7] On 25 September 1918, in the last weeks of the First World War, the Canadian government passed an Order in Council[12] 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.

[14] Although the government repealed the order in January 1920, it was not until 1967 that another German-language newspaper appeared – the Kitchener Journal, which ceased publication in 1969.

[15] 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.

The Rittinger & Motz printing firm
The Rittinger & Motz printing firm of Berlin, Ontario ( pictured c. 1906–1908 ) printed several German-language newspapers, including the Berliner Journal , Die Ontario Glocke and Der Canadische Kolonist . [ 1 ]
A March 1848 extra edition of Der Deutsche Canadier covering the revolutions in Europe . The newspaper catered its coverage to recent German immigrants who remained interested in European political and social happenings. [ 19 ]
The Berliner Journal broadside for 1888.
Most German-language newspapers in Ontario issued an annual broadside with a long poem to celebrate the New Year . The Berliner Journal 's poem of 1888 (pictured) was written in the local Pennsylvania German dialect . [ 20 ]