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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Index to Pine Bush genealogy (Hespeler, Ontario) by Winfield Brewster
Type: ReportAbstract: An index to some 650 personal names mentioned in Brewster's book.Year of publication: 1987Export options:Inventory of archival and primary sources: Guelph and Wellington County to 1940
Type: BookAbstract: A comprehensive research tool created with the help of InMagic software. Annotated references are organized in sections for: government records, business records, church records, voluntary ...Keywords: Census recordsYear of publication: 1989Historical Period: 1800-1940Export options:Inventory of Ontario newspapers: 1793-1986
Type: BookAbstract: A guide to English-language newspapers, including those of Waterloo County. The entries are arranged alphabetically, first by place of publication, then by masthead name. Frequency of publication ( ...Keywords: NewspapersPublishersYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1844-1986Export options:Jacob H. Janzen (1878-1950): a man with a mission to his people
Type: BookAbstract: A biographical sketch of Jacob Heinrich Janzen, the Russian Mennonite who became bishop of the Waterloo-Kitchener United Mennonite Church. Janzen's roles as writer, educator and community leader are ...Keywords: MennonitesRussian MennonitesImmigrationGerman languageEducationMilitary conscriptionBiographiesClergyWorld War ICultural adaptationYear of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1878-1950Export options:Jacob Y. Shantz: Mennonite businessman
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An account of the financial fortunes of Shantz (1822-1909), from his farming and sawmill business enterprises in the 1850s, the founding of the Dominion Button Works and other industries in the 1870s ...Keywords: BiographiesMennonitesBusinessesEntrepreneursSaw mill industryFarmersButton industryShantz Jacob Y.Berlin (Ontario)KitchenerYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1843-1914Export options:John Weicker family: 1830 pioneers of South Easthope Tsp., Perth County, East Zorra Township, Oxford County
Type: BookAbstract: A compendium of family trees, reunion reports, photographs, biographies and reminiscences relating to the Weicker family, German Lutherans who settled mostly in Perth County. Some of the family ...Keywords: GenealogyGermansObituariesBiographiesMapsWaterloo CountyPerth CountyWeicker familyWeicker JohnWeicker Catherine Zinkan (m. John)Year of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1830-1987Export options:Kingwood Reformed Mennonite Cemetery (CC#4535): West Concession III, Lot 3, Wellesley Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index of some 120 stones in the small cemetery located just west of the crossroads hamlet formerly known as Goosetown. The cemetery served the Reformed Mennonites connected with a ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyMennonitesYear of publication: 1989Historical Period: 1860-1988Export options:Kinzie family history: study research material, incomplete
Type: BookAbstract: Working papers including a bibliography, biographies of the American Kinzies, and a genealogy beginning in 1716. Dilman Kinzie and his wife Barbara came to Doon from Pennsylvania in 1800. Dilman died ...Keywords: GenealogySettlers PennsylvaniaWomenBiographiesMennonitesKinzie familyKinzie DilmanKinzie James A.Kinzie JohnKinzie WilliamYear of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1800-1977Export options:Kinzie-Bean Cemetery (CC#5425): Biehn Tract Lot 1, Waterloo Township (now Mill Park Drive, Kitchener, west of Doon)
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions and index of about 80 surviving markers and monuments in the cemetery located on the original farm of John Biehn who came from Montgomery County, PA in 1800. Biehn's son-in-law, Dilman ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1800-1985Export options:Language Loyalty among the Pennsylvania Germans: A Status Report on Old Order Mennonites in Pennsylvania and Ontario
Type: Book ChapterKeywords: German (New High)German (Low)DialectsLanguage interactionBilingualismMennonites (Old Order)Pennsylvania GermansYear of publication: 1977Export options: