In nineteenth-century Upper Canada, German-language publications were in high demand. After the English and French, Germans were the third-largest immigrant group in Canada. Most Germans settled in Waterloo County, especially in the towns of Berlin (now Kitchener) and Waterloo, and most newspapers were established there to service the population. In any year between 1859 and 1908, Waterloo County typically had four German newspapers, and always between three and five. In the period from 1835 to 1914, nine German newspapers were founded in Berlin and Waterloo and six in Preston, New Hamburg and Elmira. German is the only language other than English or French to have had a flourishing newspaper press in Ontario; approximately thirty German newspapers were published in the province between 1835 and 1918.

Ontario's first German-language newspaper, Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung, was founded in Berlin in 1835, predating the town's first English-language newspaper by 18 years. 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. Due to their small readership, they exerted little political influence on anything other than a local level. Most publication were dependent upon a small population group and folded after only a few years, but the towns Berlin, Waterloo and New Hamburg each supported at least one German newspaper until 1909, by which time all competitors had either folded or amalgamated into Berlin's Berliner Journal.

On 25 September 1918, in the last weeks of the First World War, the Canadian government passed an Order in Council 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." The Order had the effect of banning German-language publications, leading to the 1918 closure of the last remaining German newspaper, the Berliner Journal (since renamed the Ontario Journal). Although the government repealed the order in January 1920, it was not until 1967 that another German-language newspaper appeared – the Kitchener Journal, which ceased publication in 1969.

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. Toronto's , published from 2011 to 2023, was Ontario's last German-language newspaper. __NOTOC__

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+ Name of newspaper, location, frequency, years of publication and political alignment Newspaper Place ofpublication Frequency Commenced Ceased Political alignment ISSN / OCLC Berlin Daily NewsBerlinDaily18781878 Berliner Journal /Ontario JournalBerlinWeekly18591918Liberal (1859–1904),independent (1904–1918); ; .Canada Museumund Allgemeine ZeitungBerlinWeekly18351840Independent; .HamiltonTwice weekly18561857 Hamilton /LondonWeekly18721876 OttawaMonthly18931893 das journalTorontoBiweekly20112023 BerlinWeekly18781878Conservative ; .Toronto /PrestonWeekly18561867 WaterlooWeekly18541909Conservative; .PrestonWeekly18481850Reform ; .StratfordWeekly18641906ReformDer Deutsche Canadierund Neuigkeitsbote /Der Deutsche CanadierBerlinWeekly18411865Reform; .London /HamiltonMonthly18711876 WaterlooWeekly18631863Reform ; .WaterlooWeekly18391841 ; . /New HamburgWeekly18551908Conservative; .Stratford /Listowel 18781883Conservative /NeustadtWeekly18681882IndependentArnprior /PembrokeWeekly19011916IndependentTorontoWeekly1977 CanningtonMonthly19972014 BerlinWeekly18911908Conservative; .BerlinWeekly18691870 BerlinWeekly18671869 /Ayton /NeustadtWeekly18821892 Walkerton 18781879Reform PrestonWeekly18561857 ; .WartburgWeekly ElmiraWeekly18701882 ; .BerlinWeekly18861888Conservative; .New HamburgWeekly18521856Reform; .Hamilton 18791879Conservative Kitchener JournalKitchener 19671969 TorontoWeekly2003 The Hofbräuhaus NewsOttawaQuarterly20022014 Walkerton Glocke /Die Ontario GlockeWalkertonWeekly18701904Conservative; .WellandWeekly18851886

See also List of early Canadian newspapers List of defunct newspapers of Canada History of Canadian newspapers German Canadians List of German-language newspapers published in the United States

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General Canadian Minority Media Database from the University of Alberta's Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies Motz Family Fonds digital exhibit at the University of Waterloo Library. Newspapers on Microfilm at the Kitchener Public Library

Digitized newspapers Berliner Journal 1880–1916 copies (in German) digitized by Simon Fraser University Der Deutsche Canadier 1856–1864 copies (in German) digitized on Canadian Research Knowledge Network Der Deutsche in Canada 1872, 1874 copies (in German) digitized on Canadian Research Knowledge Network Das Echo 1893 copy (in German) digitized on Canadian Research Knowledge Network