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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Bridging mind & spirit : Conrad Grebel University College, 1963-2013
Type: BookKeywords: MennonitesConrad Grebel CollegeYear of publication: 2013Historical Period: 1963-2013Export options:Church records of Strasburg Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1844-1893, Waterloo Township, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Information about baptisms, confirmations, funerals, communicants and pastors during the autonomous life of this congregation from 1844 to 1893. In 1893 the church was joined with St James Lutheran ...Year of publication: 1985Historical Period: 1844-1893Export options:Cooperation to Amalgamation to Merger: the Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Over the course of the 20th century an Amish and two Mennonite groups in Ontario - the Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec, the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference, and the United Mennonite ...Year of publication: 1993Export options:Harvey W. Taves: one of Christ's men
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A biographical tribute to the achievements of Harvey Taves (1926-1965), the last director of the Canadian headquarters of the Mennonite Central Committee in Kitchener which closed in 1964, and one of ...Year of publication: 1989Historical Period: 1926-1965Export options:John Weicker family: 1830 pioneers of South Easthope Tsp., Perth County, East Zorra Township, Oxford County
Type: BookAbstract: A compendium of family trees, reunion reports, photographs, biographies and reminiscences relating to the Weicker family, German Lutherans who settled mostly in Perth County. Some of the family ...Keywords: GenealogyGermansObituariesBiographiesMapsWaterloo CountyPerth CountyWeicker familyWeicker JohnWeicker Catherine Zinkan (m. John)Year of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1830-1987Export options:Mennonite women slowly gain equality
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A general review with no specific references to Waterloo County except that one of the two photographs shows Mennonites picking berries in Berlin, circa 1912.Year of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1800-1985Export options:Mennonites in Ontario: an introduction
Type: BookAbstract: Successor to the booklet by J. Winfield Fretz, published in 1967 (and reprinted in 1974 and 1982), this concise account has short chapters defining Ontario Mennonites, tracing the origins of ...Keywords: MennonitesTechnologyEthnic groupsOccupationsCustoms and traditionsAgricultureEducationAmishMennonites (Old Order)OntarioYear of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1787-1994Export options:Midwife-Healers in Canadian Mennonite Immigrant Communities: Women Who 'Made Things Right'
Type: Journal ArticleYear of publication: 2007Historical Period: 1878-1968Export options:Pioneering with John Weicker
Type: ReportAbstract: A history of a German family who settled in Perth, Oxford and Waterloo Counties, with a description of pioneer life in the first half of the 19th century based on Waterloo County historical sources.Keywords: GenealogySettlersGermansWeicker JohnWeicker family19th century20th centuryPerth CountyOxford CountyWaterloo CountyYear of publication: 1962Historical Period: 1830-1962Export options:Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, sometimes known as Oswald or Hoffer Cemetery (CC#4582): German Company Tract lot 52, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of 83 memorials with translations of the kirkenbuch entries and a history of this vanished church. A name index is also included.Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1853-1935Export options: