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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Interview with Matthias Martin
Type: BookAbstract: A summary of the interview with the Old Order Mennonite on his farm. Topics include Mr Martin's collections of bottles, lanterns and bells; the making of harnesses, horse blankets and rope; life on ...Year of publication: 1990Historical Period: 1906-1990Export options:Irish Palatine communities in nineteenth-century Ontario
Type: ThesisAbstract: The Irish Palatines are one of Ontario's forgotten ethnic groups. Forced to flee the German Palatinate in 1709, many settled in England first with the expectation of being sent to America. A small ...Year of publication: 1990Export options:Jacob Foster Eby, local hero
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An account of the tragic accident at the Kitchener sewer plant in 1930, in which the engineer, Jacob Eby, died in trying to save other workers overcome by a deadly gas. The authors also provide ...Keywords: DisastersSeweragePublic utilitiesGenealogyMennonitesEby Jacob F.Eby CarlEby Isabelle MyersEby SamuelStevenson JackYear of publication: 1990Historical Period: 1930-1931Export options:Jacob H. Janzen: a minister of rare magnitude
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A summary of the life, ideas and accomplishments of Jacob Heinrich Janzen (1878-1950). He was a Russian Mennonite preacher, teacher and writer who became bishop of the Waterloo-Kitchener United ...Keywords: ClergyMennonitesWorld War IRussian MennonitesCultural adaptationReligious dissensionGerman languageBiographiesJanzen Jacob H. Rev.Janzen Eliese Neufeld (m. Jacob H.)Year of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1924-1950Export options:John Goessman
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A biography of the surveyor of the German Block in Wilmot Township for Christian Nafziger's Amish and Mennonite settlers. Goessman (1776-1841) also surveyed other townships and acted as an agent for ...Year of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1820-1840Export options:John Steckly family history: David and Magdalena (Ropp) Steckly genealogy
Type: BookAbstract: An illustrated genealogy of the family of John (Hans) Steckly who came to Wilmot Township in the first half of the nineteenth century. The French origins of the Steckly and Ropp families are ...Keywords: GenealogySettlers FrenchMennonitesAmishFarmersSteckley familyRopp familySteckly HansSteckly Barbara SteinmanSteckly JohnYear of publication: 1990Historical Period: 1820-1988Export options:Julian Beaty and Abraham Z. Buehler: a record of their descendants
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy with brief biographies of John Beaty and Mary Cress, parents of Julian, who settled in Waterloo Township. Descendants of the six surviving children of Julian and Abraham Z. Buehler ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesSettlers IrishSettlers PennsylvaniaWar 1812TeachersMennonitesCress familyBuehler AbrahamBeatty JohnYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1800-1988Export options:Kanadische Deutschlandhilfe in Den Ersten Jahren Nach Dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords: Associations and clubsKitchenerMennonite Central CommitteeSociety for German ReliefWorld War IISudeten Club ForwardTorontoEthnic Germans T2 Canadian aid for Germany in the first years after World War II.Year of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1946-52Export options:Kloepfer family data
Type: BookAbstract: The background to a genealogical study of the Kloepfer family who emigrated to the Maryhill area from Germany in the first half of the 19th century. Lists of the descendants of many branches of the ...Keywords: GenealogySettlers GermanKloepfer familyKloepfer JacobKloepfer Monica Winter (m. Jacob)Waterloo TownshipMaryhillNew GermanyYear of publication: 1990Historical Period: 1810-1990Export options:Koch: some ancestors and descendants of David Ludwig Koch, 1801-1889, and Barbara Reist, 1801-1890
Type: BookAbstract: An account of the family of an early settler of Woolwich Township who was ordained a minister for the Conestogo Mennonite Meeting House in 1845. There is information on Ludwig's ancestors and the ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesSettlers GermanFarmersChurches MennoniteBiographiesClergyConestogo Mennonite ChurchGerman CompanyWoolwich TownshipYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1823-1988Export options: