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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Morand Dietrich (1618) and his descendants
Type: BookAbstract: A comprehensive genealogical account of a Catholic family from Alsace who settled in Waterloo County in the 1830s, particularly around the St Agatha area. A long introduction, family photographs and ...Keywords: Alsace-LorraineCatholicismSt AgathaGermansGenealogyBiographiesDietrich familyWilmot TownshipYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1838-1992Export options:More about Dr Samuel Bean
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A short biography of the man who was first a teacher, then a physician, then a minister. Also detailed are names and birth and death dates of his five children.Keywords: TeachersPhysiciansClergyBiographiesChildrenWilmot TownshipWellesley TownshipBean Samuel DrYear of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1842-1977Export options:Nach Amerika: the Krugs of Eulersdorf come to Canada West
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A study of the chain migration of members of the Krug family to the Waterloo area between 1837 and 1848. Many members of the Krug family are mentioned, some of whom intermarried with the Moogk, ...Keywords: Settlers GermanImmigrationKrug JohannesKrug Johannes PeterKrug ConradKrug Anna Maria HaimbaecherKrug familyKrug Johann ConradKrug Johann BalthasarKrug Catharina ElisabethaYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1837-1848Export options:New Hamburg Reformed Mennonite Cemetery (CC#4562): sometimes called Hostetler's Cemetery, North Snyder's Road, Lot 20, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index of about 150 markers in the cemetery that dates from about 1850. An introduction provides a brief history of the church and school that were originally on the same site and ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyIndexesMennonitesYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1847-1990Export options:New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (CC#4498): 235 Cooper Street, Cambridge, formerly Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions and indexes of the markers with the cemetery plans. Separate areas for a Potters Field and a Sons of England section are designated.Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyWar memorialsYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1867-1991Export options:'On the Very Boundary of Civilization': Adolf Halleen's Drei Monate in Canada
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords: GermansHalleen AdolfDrei Monate in Canada (1870)ProseLiterary criticismDescription and travelYear of publication: 1983Export options:Ontario Fraktur
Type: Journal ArticleYear of publication: 1983Export options:Ontario local history
Type: ReportAbstract: Local history and feature stories dealing with 830 Ontario municipalities and clipped from newspapers mainly of the 1950s and 1960s. Waterloo County communities represented in the collection are Ayr ...Keywords: Buildings StoneBusinessesEconomic conditionsFactoriesFinancial institutionsIndustriesOwnership ForeignOwnership LocalNewspapersYear of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1950-1970Export options: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: