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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
German immigration from Germany to Waterloo County from 1819 to 1840
Type: ThesisAbstract: A study of the reasons for emigration, the process of migration, and those areas of Germany that produced immigrants to the townships of Waterloo, Wilmot, Woolwich and Wellesley.Year of publication: 1978Historical Period: 1819-1840Export options:German-Canadian folk linguistic perceptions of traditional dialects
Type: ThesisAbstract: Recent work in sociolinguistics suggest that how linguists view language matters very little when it comes to language evaluations and language change. Instead, Preston 1 argues that linguists should ...Year of publication: 2007Export options:Kinship, Communities, and Covenant Chains: Mohawks and Palatines in New York and Upper Canada, 1712-1830
Type: ThesisYear of publication: 2006Export options:Language Maintenance and Change among the Swiss Mennonites of the Waterloo Region, Ontario
Type: ThesisAbstract: The purpose of the research presented in this dissertation is to gain insight into processes of language maintenance and shift and language change by studying the current situation of the ...Keywords: Morphology (linguistics)WaterlooGrammatical genderPennsylvania GermanDialectsGerman (Low)language shiftYear of publication: 2011Historical Period: 1800-2011Export options:Lexical and morphological interference phenomena in the German speech of German immigrants in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, Ontario, Canada
Type: ThesisAbstract: This thesis attempts to scrutinize the lexical and morphological interference phenomena in the German speech of German immigrants in the Kitchener-Waterloo area in Ontario. Interview data revealed ...Keywords: LinguisticsKitchenerWaterlooGermansYear of publication: 1990Export options:Negotiating the Divides: How Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors Remember Their Engagement with the Popular Culture of the 1950s
Type: ThesisAbstract: This dissertation examines how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors (COS), growing up in the 1950s in a small city in Ontario engaged with popular culture. Set within the context of a predominantly ...Year of publication: 2002Export options:"Our guests are busy": The internment and labour of German prisoners of war in Ontario, 1940-1946
Type: ThesisAbstract: For a period of six years stretching from 1940 to 1946, over 35,000 members of the German armed forces were interned in seventeen prisoner of war camps all over Canada. The passing of order-in- ...Year of publication: 1992Export options:Russian Mennonite immigration and settlement in Waterloo County, 1924-1925
Type: ThesisAbstract: A description of the efforts of local Waterloo Mennonites and others to help Russian Mennonites adjust to life in Canada. Initially, Waterloo County was seen as a temporary refuge for the overflow of ...Keywords: Russian MennonitesWaterloo CountyYear of publication: 1974Historical Period: 1924-1925Export options:Separation or Integration? the Russian Mennonite Immigrant Community in Ontario, 1924-45
Type: ThesisAbstract: How do ethnic groups survive and maintain their identity when transplanted into an alien cultural environment? That question is one of the major issues in the study of ethnicity. Both historians and ...Keywords: Russian MennonitesAcculturationYear of publication: 1986Export options:Sources for a study of the Mennonites of Waterloo County
Type: ThesisAbstract: Apparently a student essay in librarianship that lists and comments on about 100 bibliographic items in the following thematic groups: Mennonite faith and history, life in America, immigration to ...Year of publication: 1969Historical Period: 1800-1968Export options: