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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Checklist of indexes to Canadian newspapers
Type: MiscellaneousAbstract: A list of indexes to newspapers in Canada, including partial indexes to {Cambridge Reporter}, {Galt Evening Reporter}, {Hespeler Herald}, {Prestonian}, {Berlin Telegraph}, {Berliner Journal}, {Canada ...Keywords: NewspapersIndexesBirthsMarriageDeathsYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1830-1980Export options:Deaths, 1956
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A list of prominent Waterloo County people who died in 1956: Bishop Oscar Burkholder, Amelia Warnock Garvin (who wrote under the pseudonym "Katherine Hale"), Owen A.F. Hamilton Q.C., Joseph A. Huck, ...Year of publication: 1956Historical Period: 1859-1956Export options:Eby, Benjamin
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A biographical sketch of one of the most influential early Mennonite leaders of Waterloo Township. Eby was a bishop, an author, a teacher and a farmer. He gave financial support to the first ...Keywords: MennonitesBiographiesClergyPennsylvania GermansIndustriesNewspapersSchoolsEby BenjaminPublishersBerlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1956Historical Period: 1815-1853Export options:E.W.B. Snider, 1842-1921: an appreciation
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A biographical sketch of the St Jacobs mill owner and promoter of hydro-electric power, by his granddaughter. On 14 May 1956, a memorial to E.W.B. Snider was erected in St Jacobs by the Ontario Hydro ...Year of publication: 1956Historical Period: 1842-1921Export options:German Literature as represented in two German Language Newspapers of Ontario, Canada
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords: Literary criticismNewspapersGermanYear of publication: 1956Export options:German-Canadian Review: quarterly of the Canadian-German Society, Inc.
Type: MiscellaneousAbstract: A continuation of the quarterly "German- Review", published by the Canadian Society for German Relief in Manitoba. The format, place of publication and publisher all changed in 1956 when the Canadian ...Year of publication: 1956Historical Period: 1948-1956Export options:Jacob Y. Shantz: Mennonite businessman
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An account of the financial fortunes of Shantz (1822-1909), from his farming and sawmill business enterprises in the 1850s, the founding of the Dominion Button Works and other industries in the 1870s ...Keywords: BiographiesMennonitesBusinessesEntrepreneursSaw mill industryFarmersButton industryShantz Jacob Y.Berlin (Ontario)KitchenerYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1843-1914Export options:Kitchener old-timers [WRP]
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Photographs reproduced from the "Kitchener-Waterloo Record" show 96-year-old Andrew Heipel gardening and Mr and Mrs Jacob Oberholtzer celebrating their 73rd wedding anniversary.Year of publication: 1956Historical Period: 1860-1956Export options:Pennsylvania German in Ontario German Newspapers 1853-1918
Type: Journal ArticleYear of publication: 1956Export options:Place names in historical geography
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A study of the value of place names as an indicator of ethnicity in the area shown on the Kitchener 1:250,000 topographic map.Keywords: Place namesEthnic groupsGermansGermanYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1800-1900Export options: