# List of German-language newspapers of Ontario

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 Although the government repealed the order in January 1920, it was not until 1967 that another German-language newspaper appeared – the Kitchener Journal, which ceased publication in 1969.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 das journal, first published in 2011, is presently Ontario's only German-language newspaper.

## Newspapers

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Name of newspaper, location, frequency, years of publication and political alignment :
| Newspaper | Place of publication | Frequency | Commenced | Ceased | Political alignment | ISSN / OCLC | Ref. |
| Berlin Daily News | Berlin | Daily | 1878 | 1878 | — | OCLC 1118979644 OCLC 1157018497 | |
| Berliner Journal / Ontario Journal | Berlin | Weekly | 1859 | 1918 | Liberal (1859–1904), independent (1904–1918) | OCLC 977929550 OCLC 1147283368 | |
| Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung | Berlin | Weekly | 1835 | 1840 | Independent | ISSN 0848-094X ISSN 0848-0958 OCLC 1081375169 OCLC 1081339960 | |
| Canada Zeitung | Hamilton | Twice weekly | 1856 | 1857 | — | — | |
| Canadische Volkszeitung | Hamilton / London | Weekly | 1872 | 1876 | — | — | |
| Das Ottawa Echo | Ottawa | Monthly | 1893 | 1893 | — | ISSN 0701-4694 OCLC 1080359890 OCLC 184748222 | |
| das journal | Toronto | Biweekly | 2011 | present | — | OCLC 843473149 | [17] [18] |
| Das Wochenblatt | Berlin | Weekly | 1878 | 1878 | Conservative | — | |
| Der Beobachter | Toronto / Preston | Weekly | 1856 | 1867 | — | — | |
| Der Canadische Bauernfreund | Waterloo | Weekly | 1854 | 1909 | Conservative | ISSN 0839-1661 OCLC 1032863764 | |
| Der Canadische Beobachter | Preston | Weekly | 1848 | 1850 | Reform | — | |
| Der Canadische Kolonist | Stratford | Weekly | 1864 | 1906 | Reform | OCLC 1032863512 | |
| Der Deutsche Canadier und Neuigkeitsbote / Der Deutsche Canadier | Berlin | Weekly | 1841 | 1865 | Reform | OCLC 1119075046 | |
| Der Deutsche in Canada | London / Hamilton | Monthly | 1871 | 1876 | — | ISSN 1190-724X OCLC 1019385489 OCLC 1087231616 | |
| Der Deutsche Reformer | Waterloo | Weekly | 1863 | 1863 | Reform | — | |
| Der Morgenstern | Waterloo | Weekly | 1839 | 1841 | — | ISSN 1181-2125 ISSN 1181-2133 OCLC 1033011981 OCLC 1033141534 | |
| Der Neu-Hamburger Neutrale / Canadisches Volksblatt | New Hamburg | Weekly | 1855 | 1908 | Conservative | ISSN 1180-6591 ISSN 1180-6605 OCLC 1032860930 OCLC 1081129554 | |
| Der Perth Volksfreund | Stratford / Listowel | — | 1878 | 1883 | Conservative | ISSN 1181-4683 OCLC 1032971347 | |
| Der Wächter am Saugeen / Canada National-Zeitung | Neustadt | Weekly | 1868 | 1882 | Independent | OCLC 1019411663 | |
| Deutsche Post | Arnprior / Pembroke | Weekly | 1901 | 1916 | Independent | ISSN 0842-8026 OCLC 1007474506 | |
| Deutsche Presse | Toronto | Weekly | 1977 | — | — | ISSN 0846-118X OCLC 1081383723 | [16] [48] |
| Deutsche Rundschau | Cannington | Monthly | 1997 | 2014 | — | ISSN 1206-5781 OCLC 819517622 | [49] [50] |
| Deutsche Zeitung | Berlin | Weekly | 1891 | 1908 | Conservative | ISSN 1180-6109 OCLC 1081084316 | |
| Deutscher Canadier | Berlin | Weekly | 1869 | 1870 | — | — | |
| Deutscher Canadier Und Allgemeiner Anzeiger | Berlin | Weekly | 1867 | 1869 | — | — | |
| Die Aytoner Fama / Der Canadische Volksfreund | Ayton / Neustadt | Weekly | 1882 | 1892 | — | — | |
| Die Post | Walkerton | — | 1878 | 1879 | Reform | — | |
| Die Prestoner Zeitung | Preston | Weekly | 1856 | 1857 | — | — | |
| Die Wespe | Wartburg | Weekly | c. 1871 | c. 1871–1872 | — | — | |
| Elmira Anzeiger | Elmira | Weekly | 1870 | 1882 | — | — | |
| Freie Presse | Berlin | Weekly | 1886 | 1888 | Conservative | ISSN 1180-6834 OCLC 1081362174 | |
| Hamburger Beobachter | New Hamburg | Weekly | 1852 | 1856 | Reform | ISSN 1180-6613 OCLC 1081374456 | |
| Hamilton Anzeiger | Hamilton | — | 1879 | 1879 | Conservative | — | |
| Kitchener Journal | Kitchener | — | 1967 | 1969 | — | ISSN 0837-0818 OCLC 1007733706 | |
| Neue Presse | Toronto | Weekly | 2003 | — | — | ISSN 1705-8082 OCLC 1083190036 | [16] [63] |
| The Hofbräuhaus News | Ottawa | Quarterly | 2002 | 2014 | — | ISSN 0226-6709 OCLC 1080362164 | [64] [65] [66] |
| Walkerton Glocke / Die Ontario Glocke | Walkerton | Weekly | 1870 | 1904 | Conservative | ISSN 0842-9332 OCLC 1016229515 OCLC 1007187387 | |
| Welland Deutscher Telegraph | Welland | Weekly | 1885 | 1886 | — | — | |