Charles Henry S. "Charlie" Heins^[1]

1854 - 1916  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Charles Henry S. "Charlie" Heins
  Born	Jun 1854	, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Name	H. S. Heins
  Residence	1861	, New York State, USA   [4]
  	Lutheran
  Residence	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Lutheran
  Occupation	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Upholterer
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Church of England
  Occupation	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Upholsterer
  Residence	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Anglican
  Eby ID Number	00002-568.3
  Died	23 Sep 1916	Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I154985	Generations
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Peter Jacob Heins,   b. 22 Mar 1826, Schieswig, , Germany ,   d. 26 May 1903, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Veronica "Frances" Bauman,   b. 12 Mar 1832, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 5 Sep 1904, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 72 years)
  Married	3 Dec 1853	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 6]
  Family ID	F2538	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Heins' First Skating Rink Better Than The "57" (By J. P. Jaffray) With his skating rink equipped ot only with a fine sheet of ice but also with a neat coffee room Peter J. Heins was for several winters the town's chief amusement caterer in the early seventies. The old Drill Shed on the corner of King End Water streets (subsequently removed to Woodside Park) served as his rink, to which he devoted unusual attention, scarcely ever falling to for excellent ice for his patrons. The holding of carnivals was one means he adopted to make it a paying enterprise. Fortunately for him the town contained a lot of young fellows who revelled in that sort of thing: for days and nights planning and making costumes suitable for wild Irishmen, portly Dutchmen, the Dockyard Negro and the "Colored Gentleman." The young ladies were also loyal to the idea, supplying Queens, Fairies, Dancing Girls and some stage characters. And some of those young women, were most graceful figures on the ice, Miss Nellie Mackie, known to the present generation as Mrs. (Dr.) H. G. Lackner, was one, and Miss Bella Jackson, the Mrs. F. Hayward of today, was another. Among the married women who were skillful on the blades were Mrs. (Dr.) D. S. Bowlby and Mrs. Jacob Oberholtzer, nee Miss Vancamp. The young fellows put in a lot of time learning the Dutch Role. the Lockstitch, the Grapevine, the Eights, etc. It was in this rink that Charley Heins acquired the art of skating on stilts, an art that brought him in future years many engagements, as a star performer in Canada and the United States. P. J. Heins having acquired a taste for public entertaining acquired the old Cricket Ground (now Heins ave.) and ambitiously set about making of it a Heins Park that would be the talk of the country-side. It was he the phrase maker would say a "too previous" venture. Newspaper unknown

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 175. [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div. 2 Pg. 41. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 48. [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 2 Page 11. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Section 2 Page 33. [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose, 8 Dec 1853 Pg 49. BAUMANN, Veronica married 2 Dec 1853 In Galt, Veronica BAUMAN, daughter of Heinrich Bauman, to P.G. HEINZ of Berlin. minister Rev. F. Berry

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Jun 1854 - , Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1861 - , New York State, USA Residence - Lutheran - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Upholterer - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Church of England - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Upholsterer - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Anglican - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 23 Sep 1916 - Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth