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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
John H. Ruppel
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An obituary reprinted from the "Elmira Signet" for John H. Ruppel (1857-1940), town clerk and treasurer of Elmira for 53 years, organist of St Paul's Lutheran Church and leader of the Elmira, ...Keywords: BiographiesObituariesElmiraPrestonWaterlooWoolwich TownshipSt JacobsConestogoRuppel John H.GermansYear of publication: 1940Historical Period: 1857-1940Export options:Local man has icy Niagara Falls adventure
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An article reprinted from The Elmira Signet, describing how the honour of being the first person to descend Niagara Falls on ice belongs to a Waterloo County boy. This was a younger brother of Isaac ...Year of publication: 1996Historical Period: 1893-1893Export options:On the Mennonites who have come from Mexico to southern Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: A report on the trend since the mid-1950s of seasonal migration from Mexico to Ontario by Old Colony, Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference, Sommerfelder and Church of God Mennonites. The author ...Keywords: EmploymentMennonitesImmigrationOccupationsAgricultureChurches MennoniteMexicoOntarioKitchenerElmiraYear of publication: 1974Historical Period: 1955-1974Export options:Ontario local history
Type: ReportAbstract: Local history and feature stories dealing with 830 Ontario municipalities and clipped from newspapers mainly of the 1950s and 1960s. Waterloo County communities represented in the collection are Ayr ...Keywords: Buildings StoneBusinessesEconomic conditionsFactoriesFinancial institutionsIndustriesOwnership ForeignOwnership LocalNewspapersYear of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1950-1970Export options:Physicians of note and notoriety
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Biographical sketches of doctors who spent only a portion of their lives in Waterloo Region. Two of them, Drs Gottfried Schmutter and Lewis Senghas, did not find favour, but Dr George Acheson, Dr ...Year of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1847-1938Export options:Saint James Lutheran Cemetery, Elmira
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index of some 480 markers. The introduction notes that Saint James was the first organized congregation in Elmira, being served by the Rev. Jacob Werth who also founded Saint ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyBuildings BrickYear of publication: 1991Historical Period: 1850-1990Export options:Saint James Lutheran Cemetery (CC#4590):
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of about 190 stones, with an index and plan. The introduction notes that the church was founded in 1866 as an offshoot of the church of the same name in Elmira, and has long been ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyYear of publication: 1991Historical Period: 1866-1990Export options:St Teresa Roman Catholic Cemetery, Elmira (CC#4594): German Company Tract, Lot 92, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index of about 160 markers in the cemetery that was the original churchyard of St Theresa's parish before the church moved into Elmira. The land was originally deeded by Joseph ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyIndexesYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1853-1990Export options:The ancestry in Germany and the descendants in Canada and the United States of Caspar Otterbein and his wife Margaret Hahn, and of Jakob Braun and the wife Wilhelmina Prankert
Type: ReportAbstract: Genealogies of two German families who came to Woolwich Township. Other related families include the Strohs, Oswalds, Stefflers and Israels. A name index to this work was produced by Elizabeth ...Keywords: GenealogySettlers GermanOtterbein familyHahn FamilyBraun FamilyIsrael familyOtterbein Johann CasparStroh familyOswald familySteffler familyYear of publication: 1974Historical Period: 1800-1974Export options:The Bickel book, including genealogies of the following main branches: Boettger, Buck, Heipel, Helwig, and Kalbfleisch lines
Type: ReportAbstract: A looseleaf binder containing information about the ancestors, descendants and relations of Mathias Bickel (1822-1906), a pioneer German immigrant who settled near Neustadt, Ontario. Many members of ...Year of publication: 1982Historical Period: 1850-1982Export options: