@book{1672,
  keywords = {Education, Correspondence, Pennsylvania Germans, Mennonites, Waterloo Township, Dumfries North Township, Waterloo, Settlers, Bricker  Samuel, Schoerg Joseph},
  author = {D. Dickie},
  title = {In pioneer days},
  abstract = {A Canadian elementary school reader which contains three sections relating to the county. A chapter entitled "Waterloo: the first settlement back from the lake," beginning on page 181, recounts the arrival of the Pennsylvania German Mennonites and includes a Waterloo Historical Society drawing of a Conestoga wagon and a photograph of Samuel Betzner's farm. "Twenty thousand silver dollars," beginning on page 184, explains the establishment of the German Company because of the illegal land dealings of Richard Beasley. "Letters of the Sharp family" (pp.199-213) cover the period 1818-26 and explain how and why the Sharps came to Canada and their early life in North Dumfries Township. The section, "The old log school," has a photograph of the first school in Waterloo on page 250.},
  year = {1926},
  number = {Book, Whole},
  pages = {287 p. ill.+},
  publisher = {J.M. Dent and Sons},
  address = {Toronto},
  language = {English},
}