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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
A walking tour of Kitchener's Mount Hope Cemetery
Type: BookAbstract: A brief historical outline and guide to three suggested tours, with notes on 38 notable community leaders buried in the cemetery. A slightly revised version of the guide was published in 1980.Year of publication: 1984Historical Period: 1812-1980Export options:Bean family cairn
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A short history of the family of John and Anna Bean, early Mennonite settlers of Wilmot Township, with a transcription of the cairn erected by family members in 1995 at the Stauffer Cemetery.Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1833-1995Export options:Cedar Creek and Dickie Cemeteries
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An account of two cemeteries in North Dumfries Township, with references to well- known area surnames found on the tombstones, such as Kersell, Cranston, Veitch, Brown, Lee, Wilson, Dalgleish, ...Keywords: CemeteriesCemetery recordsFamiliesYear of publication: 1950Historical Period: 1834-1950Export options:Death and Ethnicity: Swiss-German Mennonite Gravestones of the 'Pennsylvania Style' (1804-54) in the Waterloo Region, Ontario
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Many of the Mennonite tombstones in Waterloo County are stylistically similar to Pennsylvania-German tombstones, particularly with respect to construction features, design, the use of motifs, and the ...Year of publication: 1982Export options:Dickie Cemetery, North Dumfries Township, Waterloo County
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A description of a family cemetery, unusual because it was used by both Scots and Pennsylvania Mennonites, including members of the Bechtel, Dickie and Amos families.Year of publication: 1978Historical Period: 1828-1878Export options:Family research in Waterloo and Wellington Counties
Type: BookAbstract: A handbook for genealogical researchers, including chapters on libraries and archives, other historical and genealogical organizations, census records, wills, place names and local histories, atlases ...Year of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1800-1985Export options:Fugitive slaves and free Americans in Canada West before 1860
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A discussion of research sources used in the author's thesis about black settlement and experience in the Queen's Bush. Most fugitive slaves were illiterate, and their settlement is marked only by ...Keywords: Census recordsYear of publication: 1996Historical Period: 1830-1860Export options:German-Alsatian Iron Gravemarkers in Southern Ontario Roman Catholic Cemeteries
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords: CatholicismTombstonesCemeteriesYear of publication: 1983Export options:Hannes Schneider: his descendants and times, 1534-1939
Type: BookAbstract: An index to the detailed family history by Miriam H. Snyder and Joseph M. Snyder, including names of people, businesses, organizations, churches, schools, newspapers, communities and events mentioned ...Keywords: BiographiesPhotographsGenealogyNewspapersSaengerfestsPost officesSportsDisastersBusinessesWelfareYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1800-1939Export options:Historical notes, 1936
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A note of the removal of graves in the second Preston Roman Catholic cemetery to an area near the Speedsville Road, because of the widening of the highway between Galt and Preston.Keywords: RailwaysCemeteriesRoadsChurches CatholicYear of publication: 1936Historical Period: 1857-1936Export options: