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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
A good Mennonite?
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:From a Mennonite Brethren background-her grandparents and parents were missionaries in India-[Ruth Klahsen] has been featured in several Mennonite Savings and Credit Union articles for her unique ...
Year of publication: 2014Export options:A long and vibrant life: Sister Rita Kittel (aka Sister Anaclete)
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords: BiographiesGerman CanadiansYear of publication: 2014Export options:Breslau (Cressman) Mennonite Church: some obituary extracts relating to interments in the Breslau (Cressman) Cemetery, Breslau, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Information taken from obituaries to 1978, for which a name index has been prepared by Paul Pepper. Transcriptions of two land deeds of 1837 and 1858 in which Christian C. Snyder gave land to the ...Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1834-1978Export options:Breslau Mennonite (Cressman) Cemetery Breslau (CC#4579): GCT East of Grand, Lot 115, Woolwich Township (formerly Waterloo Township)
Type: ReportAbstract: A transcript of the inscriptions with an index to all personal names, done with reference to the version done in 1984 by the Genealogical Committee of the Mennonite Historical Society.Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1834-1994Export options:Cast down, but not forsaken: the Second World War experience and memory of German-Canadian Lutherans in Southwestern Ontario
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:This study seeks to reassess the notion that German-Canadians in Ontario were “silent victims” during the Second World War by exploring the wartime experience and memory of German-Canadian ...
Year of publication: 2014Export options:Dr. Henry Theodore Legler: "the most cultured German of his day"
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords:Year of publication: 2014Export options:Eating like a Mennonite
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:[Marlene Epp] began her third lecture, "Eating across borders: Mennonite missions and migrations," by showing several photos of "food fusion," restaurants and grocery stores in southern Ontario ...
Keywords: MennonitesMennonite cookingFoodYear of publication: 2014Export options:Grace Schmidt Room of Local History celebrates 10th anniversary
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A description of the local history resources and materials available at Kitchener Public Library, with an account of the anniversary celebration.Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1984-1994Export options:Henry B. Tiessen's experiences as a Russian Mennonite immigrant
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Translation of an excerpt from Tiessen's "50 Jahre in Canada: damals und heute" (1973, pp.5-14). It describes the arrival of the Hoffman family from Russia at the Waterloo station in the early 1920s ...Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1923-1924Export options:Hillside (CC#4530) and Conservative Mennonite (CC#4545) Cemeteries: East Concession, IX, lot 1, Wellesley Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions, with an index, of over 100 stones. A short history of the cemeteries explains that the property was first used by an Evangelical church and later by a Mennonite congregation.Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1833-1987Export options: