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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
A. M. Fire and Storm [Insurance]: Simplicity in a Strongly Amish Institution
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A group of primarily Old Order Amish and Mennonite churches in Ontario successfully maintain the Amish Mennonite Fire and Storm Aid Union that insures their members against natural disaster without ...Keywords: OntarioAssociations and clubsMennonites (Old Order)InsuranceAmish Mennonite Fire and Storm Aid UnionAmishYear of publication: 1997Historical Period: 1872-1997Export options:'A Raw and Hopeful Field': Nineteenth-Century Baptist Evangelism and Church Planting among Ontario's Germans
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Reviews Baptist work among German immigrants in Ontario. Revival efforts are exemplified in the lives of three men: August Rauschenbusch, Heinrich Schneider, and Johannes Stumpf. These men faced ...Keywords: ClergyEvangelismBaptistsYear of publication: 1997Export options:Ashkenazi is jazzy
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Discusses Yiddish culture in Canada in light of the summer 1997 Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto, Ontario. Performers at the festival; The Wedding Project and its attempts to rejoice in the Yiddish ...Keywords: Jews (Ashkenazi)YiddishTorontoFestivalsYear of publication: 1997Export options:Evaluation of long term implications of social policies: The 1967 Immigration Act as a case study
Type: ThesisAbstract: The purpose of this thesis was to provide an assessment of some possible implications of the 1967 Immigration Act and subsequent legislation on the distribution of occupation types for selected ...Year of publication: 1994Export 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:How natural and wise it would be: a textual analysis of the Berlin-Waterloo 1914 urban plan
Type: ThesisKeywords: UrbanizationBreithaupt William Henry (1857-1944)Berlin (Ontario)KitchenerGermansDetweiler Daniel B.Year of publication: 1997Export options:Jewish Resistance to Christianity in the Ontario Public Education System
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Jews have long been at the forefront in the struggle to keep Christianity out of Ontario's public schools, where the transmission of Christian doctrine and norms have always held sway. The proposed ...Keywords: Religious EducationJewsYear of publication: 1997Export options:L'identité des élites canadiennes-allemandes de Berlin (Kitchener) et Waterloo, Ontario, 1880-1914
Type: ThesisKeywords: Berlin (Ontario)WaterlooBusinessesYear of publication: 1997Historical Period: 1880-1914Export options:Neighbourhood ethnic transition and summary segregation indices: A methodological assessment
Type: ThesisAbstract: This study examined mechanisms through which summary indices of residential segregation respond to specific patterns of neighbourhood ethnic composition changes. The analytic procedures included ...Year of publication: 1997Export options: