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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Branching out: the transformation of the Canadian Jewish community
Type: BookKeywords: JewsEthnic identityYear of publication: 1998Export options:Community Identity and Language Change in North American Anabaptist Communities
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Draws on archival research & on fieldwork conducted since 1984 in Swartzentruber Amish communities in New York, & in Old Order Amish & Mennonite communities in New York, along the ...Year of publication: 1998Export options:George Drew and the Rabbis: Religious Education in Ontario's Public Schools
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Discusses a controversy in Ontario in 1950 in which the province's Anglican premier and leader of Ontario's Conservative Party, George Drew, promoted compulsory Protestant religious education in the ...Keywords: JewsReligious EducationYear of publication: 1998Export options:Teaching Identity: German Language Instruction in Old Order Schools
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Examines patterns of language use in Old Order church communities, specifically the use of Pennsylvania German, English, and Amish High German (AHG) in Schwartzentruber Amish and Mennonite ...Year of publication: 2006Export options:The diary of the Moravian Indian mission of Fairfield, Upper Canada, 1792-1813
Type: ThesisAbstract: This thesis an annotated translation from the original German of the official diary of the Moravian Indian mission of Fairfield, Upper Canada. The translated text is preceded by a thematic, five-part ...Keywords: FairfieldThamesvilleUpper CanadaMoravian GermansIndigenous peoplesDiariesMissionariesSettlers18th century19th centuryYear of publication: 1998Export options:'Theirs was a Deeper Purpose': the Pennsylvania Germans of Ontario and the Craft of the Homemaking Myth
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Analyzes the immigrant narrative of the Pennsylvania Germans who settled Upper Canada between the 1780's and the 1830's, using Orm Overland's framework of a 'homemaking myth.' The Pennsylvania German ...Year of publication: 2006Historical Period: 1780s - 1830sExport options:'Theirs was a Deeper Purpose': the Pennsylvania Germans of Ontario and the Craft of the Homemaking Myth
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Analyzes the immigrant narrative of the Pennsylvania Germans who settled Upper Canada between the 1780's and the 1830's, using Orm Overland's framework of a 'homemaking myth.' The Pennsylvania German ...Year of publication: 2006Export options: