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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Oral history interview with Ruth Otterbein
Type: ReportAbstract: Biographical notes from an interview with Miss Otterbein, describing her memories of Victoria Park and her association with the Kitchener Camera Club.Keywords: BiographiesWomenInterviewsOral historyPhotographsOccupationsLeisure activitiesOtterbein RuthOtterbein HenryOtterbein Catherine Louisa Herber (m. Henry)Year of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1925-1992Export 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:Peter G. Martin letters - English
Type: BookAbstract: A collection of letters from Peter G. Martin of St Jacobs to friends in other parts of Canada and the United States. The letters have been transcribed and, where necessary, translated from German ...Keywords: CorrespondenceMennonites (Old Order)Diseases TyphoidDiseases InfluenzaFarmersMartin Peter G.Martin familySt JacobsYear of publication: 1984Historical Period: 1872-1899Export options:Petworth emigrants: an update
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A progress report on the Petworth history project. Some pioneer families in Waterloo Township came to Upper Canada under the auspices of this assisted emigration scheme.Year of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1832-1837Export options:Physicians of note and notoriety
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Biographical sketches of doctors who spent only a portion of their lives in Waterloo Region. Two of them, Drs Gottfried Schmutter and Lewis Senghas, did not find favour, but Dr George Acheson, Dr ...Year of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1847-1938Export options:Pioneers of Waterloo County
Type: BookAbstract: A study of the settlement of the townships in the Waterloo region from the time of the Six Nations Indians to 1850, with an appraisal of the three main ethnic groups, the Scots, the Pennsylvania- ...Keywords: Indigenous peoplesSettlersPennsylvania GermansGermansMennonitesScotsImmigrationAmishOccupationsEthnic groupsYear of publication: 1984Historical Period: 1800-1850Export options:Präludien : kanadisch-deutsche Dialoge : Vorträge des 1. Kingstoner Symposions : Thema, interkulturelle Germanistik--the Canadian context.
Type: BookKeywords:Year of publication: 1992Export options:Reunions and anniversaries: the Schiedel reunion
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An account of the reunion of the descendants of Martin and Susannah Ries, Mennonites who came to Breslau from Pennsylvania in 1825. Some genealogical notes are included.Keywords: Pennsylvania GermansMennonitesGenealogyBreslau (Ontario)Schiedel familySchiedel MartinSchiedel Susannah Ries (m. Martin)Schiedel JohnYear of publication: 1984Historical Period: 1825-1984Export options:Russian Mennonites mark 60th anniversary
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A description of the arrival in 1924 of 800 Russian Mennonites in the Kitchener- Waterloo area.Keywords: Russian MennonitesKitchenerWaterlooYear of publication: 1984Historical Period: 1923-1924Export options:Saint Agatha Amish Mennonite Cemetery (CC#4568), Waterloo County
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of 192 markers, preceded by a plan and index. The introduction notes that the land for a school house and burying ground was conveyed by Nicholas Lichti in 1845 but that a log school ...Year of publication: 1984Historical Period: 1834-1984Export options: