BERLIN

berlin, a city and port of entry, ontario, canada, and capital of waterloo county, 58 m. w. of toronto, on the grand trunk railway. it is the centre of a prosperous farming and manufacturing district, inhabited chiefly by german immigrants and their descendants. an electric railway connects it with the town of waterloo (pop. 4100) 2 m. to the north, which has important flour and woollen mills and distilleries. berlin is a flourishing manufacturing town, and contains a beet sugar refinery, automobile, leather, furniture, shirt and collar, felt, glove, button and rubber factories. pop. (1881) 4054; (1901) 9747.