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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
A long and vibrant life: Sister Rita Kittel (aka Sister Anaclete)
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords: BiographiesGerman CanadiansYear of publication: 2014Export options:Bibliography of German dialects spoken in the United States and Canada and problems of German-English language contacts especially
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A bibliography of 150 items, some of which refer to Waterloo County. It is a continuation of a bibliography on the same topic by Wolfgang Viereck.Year of publication: 1976Historical Period: 1968-1976Export 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:Deutsche Bräuche und Volkslieder in Maryhill (Waterloo County)
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A brief overview of German customs and folk songs traced back to the settlement of the community (known as New Germany before 1941) by Catholic Alsatians in the 1820s and 1830s. Based on interviews ...Keywords: Customs and traditionsGerman languageGermansEthnic groupsMusicMarriageCatholicismLeisure activitiesPoetryMaryhillYear of publication: 1976Historical Period: c1820-1976Export options:Dr. Henry Theodore Legler: "the most cultured German of his day"
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords:Year of publication: 2014Export options:No one will hold it against them if they keep the Old Country in their hears: the Breithaupt Family resistance to anti-German sentiment in Berlin, Ontario, 1914-1916
Type: Journal ArticleYear of publication: 2014Historical Period: 1914-1916Export options:Pennsylvania-German rhymes and sayings
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A collection of about 15 short poems written in dialect with an English translation. The topics of the verses vary from weather predictions to children's nonsense rhymes and a general acceptance of ...Year of publication: 1976Historical Period: 1800-1976Export options:Waterloo College's pre-World War 2 experience: negotiating pacifism and German identities within the college newspaper
Type: Journal ArticleYear of publication: 2014Export options:Waterloo County's Corner of Berlin
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords: Waterloo CountyGerman CanadiansYear of publication: 2014Export options: