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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Aloyes Bauer
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A biography of the Waterloo manufacturer and community leader.Keywords: BiographiesTextile IndustryFurniture industryBrewery industrySchools SeparateChurches CatholicBauer AloyesBauer familyBauer Magdalena Kuntz (m. Aloyes)Bauer Industries WaterlooYear of publication: 1927Historical Period: 1861-1926Export options:Benjamin Eby, founder of Kitchener and the spirit of progress
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A biographical sketch of the church and community leader in Waterloo Township who established Berlin's first church, school, newspaper and furniture factory and wrote and published two spelling books ...Keywords: BiographiesClergyTeachersObituariesSchoolsMennonitesNewspapersIndustriesPennsylvania GermansBerlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1961Historical Period: 1785-1855Export options:Edgar Jacob Bauer
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A profile of the manager of Bauer's Ltd of Waterloo.Keywords: BiographiesTextile IndustryBauer Edgar J.Bauer Industries WaterlooWaterloo Town CouncilSt Louis Roman Catholic Church WaterlooWaterlooYear of publication: 1927Historical Period: 1888-1926Export options:Fifty two years on high school board
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A biographical sketch of Alex Welker, co- founder of Dominion-Electrohome Industries Ltd, founder of Met-Craft Industries Ltd, and for 52 years a member of the Kitchener- Waterloo High School Board.Year of publication: 1961Historical Period: 1907-1961Export options:Jacob Clare Hallman, inventor, manufacturer, musician, businessman
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Profile of Bishop Manasseh Hallman's son who developed a major business in various forms of farm equipment and gadgets from his first efforts in the farm workshop south of Petersburg. From 1949, he ...Keywords: IndustriesMusicMennonitesHallman Jacob C.Hallman Lizzie Ann Erb (m. Manasseh)Hallman Manasseh Rev.PetersburgWaterlooKitchenerYear of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1930-1991Export options:The ancestors and descendants including some of the relations of Deacon Ulrich Steiner and Elizabeth Basinger of Wilmot Township, Waterloo County 1720-1995
Type: BookAbstract: The genealogy of a family whose patriarch, Ulrich, who came from Alsace via Ohio and became one of the founding members of the Geiger Mennonite Church, Haysville. There are biographical sketches, ...Keywords: MennonitesGenealogyIndustriesCensus recordsPhysiciansObituariesMapsGeiger Mennonites Church HaysvilleCorrespondenceSteiner familyYear of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1720-1995Export options:The rural-urban fringe with comparative reference to London, Kitchener-Waterloo and Sarnia
Type: ThesisAbstract: An analysis of the relationship between the rural-urban fringe and the factors of physiography and soils, city site, situation and shape, and location of industrial areas. The author discusses ...Keywords: UrbanizationLandscape RuralZoningLand developmentLand useRural-urban fringeLandscape UrbanEnvironment PhysicalFarmersPopulationYear of publication: 1961Historical Period: c1930-1961Export options:Those enterprising Pennsylvania Germans
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A special issue of the publication of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario, with a collection of stories of business activity among Mennonites who have sometimes been wrongly assumed ...Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1800-1995Export options: