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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
On stony ground
Type: BookKeywords: FictionYear of publication: 1986Export 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: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:Pinehill Cemetery (CC#4549): Canada Company Block A, Concession 1, Lot 14 and 15, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with plan and index of about one hundred markers in the cemetery located on Huron Road (County Road #2) about four kilometres east of Haysville. The introduction notes that the ...Year of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1841-1939Export options:Präludien : kanadisch-deutsche Dialoge : Vorträge des 1. Kingstoner Symposions : Thema, interkulturelle Germanistik--the Canadian context.
Type: BookKeywords:Year of publication: 1992Export options:Reist family reunion
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A report on the reunion at St Jacobs, with genealogical notes on this Pennsylvania Mennonite family. Although Abraham Reist owned land in Woolwich Township he never came to Canada, but his son John ...Keywords: Settlers PennsylvaniaMennonitesGenealogyReist familyReist JohnReist SamuelKoch Barbara Reist (m. Ludwig)Reist Susannah Huber (m. John)Reist John JrReist IsaacYear of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1821-1986Export options:Saint Clement's Roman Catholic Cemetery (CC#4534): St Clements Village, East Concession VIII, Lot 2, Wellesley Township, Waterloo County
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index of nearly 500 markers in the cemetery that has been associated with St Clement's Catholic Church since 1840. The introduction notes that the cemetery was moved in 1885 and ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyIndexesYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1840-1990Export options:Saint Jacobs Mennonite Cemetery or Central Woolwich Mennonite Cemetery (CC#4583): Village of St Jacobs, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Cemetery transcriptions of over 300 markers with a plan and a name index.Keywords: CemeteriesInscriptionsGenealogyYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1856-1990Export options: