TY - JOUR KW - Biographies KW - Pennsylvania Germans KW - Mennonites KW - Ethnic groups KW - Russian Mennonites KW - Shantz Jacob Y. KW - Manitoba KW - Berlin (Ontario) KW - Waterloo Township AU - H. Bowman AB - An account of Shantz's family background and varied business activities in farming, contracting, milling and manufacturing. His role in the Russian Mennonite migrations to Manitoba in the 1870s is stressed and photographs of the family homestead in Berlin and excerpts from Shantz's official account of his journey to Manitoba are included. BT - Waterloo Historical Society C1 - Shantz, Jacob Y.; Schneider, Joseph; Weber, Abraham; Brubacher, John; Bowlby, W.H.; Shantz, Barbara Reiff; Shantz, Isaac; Shantz, David; Shantz, Jacob; Eby, Joseph; Shantz, Jacob B.; Brubacher, Nancy; Biehn, Barbara; Shuh, Sarah; Shantz, Moses; Shantz, Ida; Shantz, Dilman; Detweiler, Noah B., Mrs; Erb, Jacob; Erb, Daniel; Eby, George; Lang, Eugene; Nyberg, Henry; Shantz, I.E.; Vogelsang, Emil; Schneider, Samuel B.; Jaffray, William; Warkentin, Bernard; Pope, J.H.; Cornies, John; Macleod, Alex C2 - Ames-Holden Tire and Rubber Co., Kitchener; German Company; Suddaby School, Berlin; Dominion Button Works, Kitchener; Mennonite Board of Colonization, Rosthern, Saskatchewan; Waisenamt (Orphan's Board) C3 - Berlin; Pennsylvania; Manitoba; Russia; Kitchener; Berlin, Maurice Street; Red River; Waterloo Tp C4 - 1800-1909 C7 - English(30) 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 - 2906 LA - English M1 - Journal Article M3 - Print(0) PY - 1924 EP - 100. ill. EP - 85+ T1 - Jacob Y. Shantz: pioneer of Russian Mennonite immigration to Manitoba T2 - Waterloo Historical Society VL - 12 ER -