What was previously reported as record-breaking cold in Waterloo Region a week ago isn't the case, we are now finding out.

On what we imagine to be a frosty January day in Galt in 1904, a low minimum temperature of - 35.6 C for was recorded, which beats the record cold temperature reported for the Region of Waterloo International Airport on Monday.

On Family Day, Environment Canada reported an unofficial all-time temperature low of - 34.1 C recorded at Region of Waterloo International Airport at 7 a.m.

This reading is lower than any temperature ever measured at the airport since 1971, when records were first kept, and at a downtown Kitchener site, recorded temperatures from 1915 to 1977.

But as one enterprising listener found here, the temperature record set in Galt still stands for Waterloo Region.

Peter Kimbell, an Environment Canada meteorologist, confirmed that the bone-chilling -35.6 C temperature from Jan. 5, 1904 in Galt is accurate. He says statistics from Cambridge appear to have been kept from 1879 to 1994.