TY - ENCYC
KW - Education
KW - Correspondence
KW - Pennsylvania Germans
KW - Mennonites
KW - Waterloo Township
KW - Dumfries North Township
KW - Waterloo
KW - Settlers
KW - Bricker  Samuel
KW - Schoerg Joseph
AU - D. Dickie
AB - 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.
C1 - Beasley, Richard; Bricker, Samuel; Schoerg, Joseph; Sharp, James
C2 - German Company
C3 - Waterloo Tp; Dumfries N Tp; Waterloo
C4 -  1799-c1830
C7 - English(30)
CY - Toronto
DP - Elizabeth Bloomfield. WATERLOO REGIONAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY SYSTEM. Most pre-1993 items are also included in the print work Waterloo County to 1972: an Annotated Bibliography of Regional History. Kitchener: Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993.
ID - 1353
LA - English
M1 - Book, Whole
M3 - Print(0)
PB - J.M. Dent and Sons
PP - Toronto
PY - 1926
SP - 287 p. ill.
T1 - In pioneer days
ER -