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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
7th cousins: an automythography
Type: BookAbstract:"From July 7th to August 6th, 2015, we walked 700 kilometres, from Pennsylvania to Ontario. A stranger asked if we were walking to learn how to work and be together. This was certainly part of it ...
Keywords: CanadaBiographyDescription and travelHikingHospitalityNortheastern StatesTravelWomen performance artistsYear of publication: 2019Export options:A few words about my life: the recollections of Rev. Dr. J.C.E. Riotte
Type: BookAbstract:"Notes about the life and times of the late Reverend Dr Jules Charles Emil Riotte. He was a Lutheran pastor for the Lusatian Sorbian community who describes efforts to Germanize that Slavic ...
Year of publication: 2021Export options:A history of the Stauffer families who came to Ontario
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy based on the 1934 work by C.T. Groh. This report includes more information on the European ancestors, the names of all Stauffers who came to Upper Canada before 1867, and a brief ...Year of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1800-1977Export options:A time to be born: memoir of a Canadian Mennonite
Type: BookYear of publication: 2016Export options:Adventures in colonization: co-ordinated developments unsurpassed in history, transforming a wilderness into the "greatest golden granary of the world", turning almost insurmountable obstacles into a triumphant success
Type: BookAbstract: Typescript biography of Jacob Y. Shantz by his son. Jacob's childhood and his role as a leading businessman of Berlin are described, with his settlement of Russian Mennonites in Manitoba given ...Keywords: MennonitesBiographiesGenealogyShantz Jacob Y.EntrepreneursBerlin (Ontario)KitchenerImmigrationRussian MennonitesManitobaYear of publication: 1930Historical Period: 1925-1950Export options:Aloyes Bauer
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A biography of the Waterloo manufacturer and community leader.Keywords: BiographiesTextile IndustryFurniture industryBrewery industrySchools SeparateChurches CatholicBauer AloyesBauer familyBauer Magdalena Kuntz (m. Aloyes)Bauer Industries WaterlooYear of publication: 1927Historical Period: 1861-1926Export options:Betzner, Samuel D.
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A biography of the pioneer settler who, with Joseph Schoerg, explored the valley of the middle and upper Grand River and bought land in 1800 close to the site of Blair. After some years as a ...Keywords: MennonitesSettlers PioneerFarmersBiographiesBetzner Samuel D.Schoerg JosephBlairWaterloo TownshipYear of publication: 1985Historical Period: 1800-1816Export options:Bowman, Israel David
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A brief biography of the municipal officer who served as county clerk for Waterloo from 1861.Year of publication: 1886Historical Period: 1835-1886Export options:Charles Henry Doerr
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A biography of the Kitchener confectionery manufacturer.Keywords: PoliticiansBiographiesConfectionary industryDoerr familyDoerr C.H.C.H. Doerr Confectionery Co. BerlinKitchener Light CommissionKitchener City CouncilBerlin Rink and Auditorium Co.St Peter's Lutheran Church KitchenerYear of publication: 1927Historical Period: 1868-1926Export options:Charles Martin Bowman
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A short biography of Bowman and of his father, Isaac Erb Bowman, the St Jacobs tanner who represented North Waterloo in the Dominion Parliament from 1864 to 1878 and from 1886 to 1896 and was ...Year of publication: 1907Historical Period: 1864-1897Export options: