Henry William Peterson
Inducted In
1972
Henry William Peterson was the editor and publisher of the first German language newspaper in Upper Canada. The Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung was founded in Berlin in 1835 and covered local and foreign news.
Peterson was born on May 27, 1793 in Quakenbruck in the duchy of Oldenburg, Germany. Two years later the family immigrated to the USA when Peterson’s father was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1810, in which capacity he served congregations in Markham and Vaughan townships.
Coming to this country later than his father, Peterson published the Canada Museum until his appointment as Registrar for the District of Wellington a few years later.