Jacob Y. Shantz

Item Name	Dominion Button Works	Image1 Image2
Other Owner(s)	Nil
Category	Photos
Year	Early: 1875 - Late: 1885
Description	A sepia-oned photograph of the Dominion Button Works at the corner of King and College Streets, Berlin, Ontario circa 1880, with employees grouped outside the plant on King Street, which appears to be a dirt surface. Carmel Swedenborgian Church is to the left of the picture (at the corner of King and Water Streets).
Collection	Doon Heritage Crossroads Contact : 10 Huron Rd. Kitchener 519-748-1914 www.region.waterloo.on.ca/doon
Accession No.	X.1967.211.001
Curatorial Comments	This building was built by Jacob Y. Shantz around 1870. Originally it was the Pioneer Button Works (Shantz in partnership with Emil Vogelsang), then it was known as the Shantz Button Company, a.k.a. Dominion Button Works. It burned in 1893 and the business moved to a corset factory on Water Street. In 1910, fire again destroyed that building, and Dilman.B. Shantz (Jacob Y.'s son) again rebuilt on Water Steet on the same site. In 1912, David Gross took over the company, and it was renamed Dominion Button Manufacturers Ltd. In 1964, the company ceased to operate.

Fraktur design based on Family Register by Jacob Shoemacher in Joseph Schneider Bible, 1821.