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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Rushes Presbyterian Cemetery (CC#4536): Wellesley Township, East Concession IV Lot 13, with index to minute and account book, 1878-1921
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index of some 270 markers that date from as early as 1848. The report includes an index to the minute book of Rushes Cemetery, and a facsimile and decoded inscription of the " ...Year of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1848-1986Export options:Scrapbook of Herbert Enns, concerning his family and its emigration from Russia in 1917
Type: ReportAbstract: A collection of documents assembled by the author in 1977 and photocopied by the Kitchener Public Library. Items include a financial statement issued by the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization, ...Year of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1917-1977Export options:Siedlungspfalzisch im Kreis Waterloo, Ontario, Kanada
Type: BookYear of publication: 1977Export options:Siedlungspfälzisch im Kreis Waterloo, Ontario, Kanada
Type: BookAbstract: A study of the Pennsylvania-German dialect (ideolect) as it was spoken in the county in 1969. The book contains the texts, in phonetic transcription with a translation in High German, of interviews ...Year of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1968-1969Export options:Steinmann Amish Mennonite Cemetery (CC#4570): Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Lot 18, South Snyder's Road
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of 340 markers preceded by a history and guide to the cemetery, a plan of the cemetery and an index. The introduction explains that the cemetery's origins are obscure but that it ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyMennonitesAmishYear of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1860-1986Export options:Swiss-German and Dutch-German Mennonite traditional art in the Waterloo region, Ontario.
Type: BookYear of publication: 1977Export options:Swiss-Palatinate-German-Pennsylvania-"Dutch" pioneers of the Niagara Peninsula
Type: BookYear of publication: 1977Export options:The Berliner Journal: a study of a German- language newspaper
Type: ThesisAbstract: An examination of the newspaper's history, founders, policies, community role and contents for the years 1906 to 1915. The author discusses the journal's role in preserving German language and ...Keywords: NewspapersBiographiesGermansWorld War IBerlin (Ontario)German languageRittinger FriedrichRittinger John Adam (1855-1915)Motz JohnBerliner JournalYear of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1906-1915Export options:The descendants of Henry S. Bauman
Type: ReportAbstract: The third edition of a 1965 mimeographed report listing the descendants of Henry S. Bauman (1867-1935). It was also revised in 1979. Henry, the fifth son of Martin H. Bauman, first married Judith ...Year of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1867-1987Export options:The descendants of John Ingold Gascho
Type: BookAbstract: A chronicle of a German Amish Mennonite family who came from Bavaria to Huron County before 1850. Some descendants settled in Waterloo County and Joseph, son of John, married Barbara Erb of Wilmot ...Keywords: MennonitesGenealogyAmishGascho familyGascho JosephGascho Barbara Erb (m. Joseph)Gascho John I.Gascho Veronica Steckly (m. John I.)Meyer JohnMeyer Leah Gascho (m. John)Year of publication: 1987Historical Period: 1916-1987Export options: