Stewart George Bernhardt

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203213538
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-336563

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-351636
• Occupation: 1937, McKim Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada; laborer

William married Olive Ella Young 23 Jan 1937, Sudbury, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. Olive was born 3 Nov 1919, Sudbury, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada; died 9 Nov 1993; was buried , Saint James Anglican Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Olive Ella Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-336181
• Occupation: 1937, McKim Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada; laborer

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• Business: Bernhardt & Ziegler
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-351634
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Not Given
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk in Hotel
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1916, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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WM. G. BERNHARDT

William G. Bernhardt, a well known coal merchant, passed away at his home in Kitchener Thursday morning last, following a week's illness of pneumonia. Deceased was born in Preston 54 years ago but has been a resident of Kitchener for many years. Previous to entering in the coal business in 1918 when he bought the business of the Lockhard Coal Co., he conducted a liquor store known as Bernhardt & Ziegler. His wife and three sons survive.

Waterloo Chronicle 13 Mar 1924, p. 6

William married Maude May McDonald 17 Jun 1903, , York Co., Ontario, Canada. Maude was born CALC 19 Nov 1882, Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; died 20 Nov 1938, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried 23 Nov 1938, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maude May Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-351635
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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MRS. MAUD MAY BERNHARDT

Widow of the late William George Bernhardt. Mrs Maud May Bernhardt, 129 Benton street, passed away Sunday in Western Hospital at Toronto. Mrs. Benthardt had marked her 56th birthday on the day before her death. She was a daughter of the late Archibald Macdonald and Mary Wiggins. She attended St. John's Anglican Church. Surviving are three sons, Archie and Robert of Kitchener and William in Sudbury. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon with a private service at 82 Krug street at 2 o'clock and thence to St. John's Anglican Church for public service at 2.30. Interment will take place in Mount View Cemetery at Galt. Rev. J. N. H. Mills will officiate.

Kitchener Daily Record 23 Nov 1936 pg 13

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• Name: William Bernhart
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-41126
• Immigration: 1845, , Canada
• Naturalization: 1860
• Occupation: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Trimmer
• Residence: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1863, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Innkeeper
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Occupation: 1874, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; grocer
• Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hotel Keeper [catagory: hotel keeper, inn keeper, tavern keeper]
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hotel Keeper
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hotel Keeper [catagory: hotel keeper, inn keeper, tavern keeper]
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1916, 104 Ainslie St. N., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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William Bernhardt was born in Buffalo, New York in 1838 but spent almost all his life in Galt. He was owner and operator of the Western Hotel later known as Overland Hotel. Also operated the Grand Hotel (formerly Queen's Arms Hotel) also involved with the New Royal Hotel.

Cambridge Mosiac, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [snippet from original text in book]

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Oldest Hotel Keeper Died Saturday

WILLIAM BERNHARDT PASSES AWAY IN HIS SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR.

FOR THIRTY YEARS HE WAS THE PROPRIETOR OF THE WESTERN HOTEL.

Galt's veteran hotelman, Mr. William Bernhardt, passed away Saturday evening at 8: 45 at his residence, 104 Ainslie Street South. Deceased had been in failing health for the past six years, having been stricken with paralysis six years ago. He was not only one of Galt's oldest residents but the town's oldest hotelkeeper, being in his 78^th year. Though born in Buffalo, N.Y., he spent practically all of his life in Galt. His death was due to general breakdown..

William Bernhardt came here when young, and the only time he was away from Galt for any lengthy period was two years he had spent in Hamilton. He had been identified with the hotel business in Galt for close onto half a century. For over thirty years he conducted the Western Hotel, which he owned, and he was in the old Grand Hotel for five years and at one time conducted what is now the New Royal Hotel. He was one of Western Ontario's best know hotelmen. He continued in the hotel business until taken ill about six years ago. In late years he devoted most of his time to his four farms located near Galt, one on the Cedar Creek Road, and three near Branchton.

In religion he was a Lutheran and he was also a member of the Masonic order.
Besides a widow there survive a family of four - Mrs. T.J. Wagner of Newmarket; Mrs. N.P. Townsend, of Washington, D.C.; William G. of Berlin, and Frank of London.

The funeral, which will be private, will take place on Tuesday afternoon at 2: 30 from his late residence to Mount View cemetery.

Galt Reporter 20 Mar 1916

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Western Hotel, William Bernhart, Concession Street \endash Galt possesses several very excellent hotels, where the weary traveller may "rest and be thankful" with all the comforts of a home. Among the number must be mentioned the Great Western, which is located Concession Street, in close proximity to the depot of the Wellington Grey and Bruce Railway. It is a handsome structure 50x110 feet in dimensions, with an L 40x40 feet in dimensions and three stories in height, and substantially built of brick. The house contains twenty-five bedrooms, which are light, well-ventilated and comfortably furnished, three parlors, a large and tastefully arranged dining-room, bar-room reading room, etc. The menu is unexcelled, the table having all the delicacies of the season as well as the more substantial viands, while the cuisine is all that the most fastidious could desire. There are six courteous and attentive assistants who look well after the comfort of the guests. The stabling accommodation is first-class there being accommodations for 25 horses. The rates of [unreadable] $1 per day, and special rates are [unreadable] for boarders, of which the house as a [unreadable] has 25. Mr. Bernhart, the proprietor, is a native of Buffalo, of German descent, but has lived most of his life in Canada. He is a genial host, and a gentleman highly esteemed for his many social and business qualities.

Industries of Canada, historical and commercial sketches, Hamilton and environs [microform] : its prominent places and people : representative merchants and manufacturers : its improvements, progress and enterprise"

William married Isabella Campbell 26 May 1863, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Isabella (daughter of Daniel Campbell and Mary Samuel) was born 1842, , Paisley, Scotland; died 27 Mar 1873, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Isabella Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-41040
• Residence: 1863, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland