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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
A comparative factorial ecology: Kitchener-Waterloo, 1971 and 1981
Type: ThesisAbstract: An examination of socio-economic and demographic characteristics based on census data for ethnic origin, religion, education, mobility, fertility, dwellings, households, employment and income. The ...Keywords: Census recordsGermansKitchenerWaterlooYear of publication: 1984Historical Period: 1971-1981Export options:A facile pen: John Motz and the Berliner Journal, 1859-1911
Type: ThesisAbstract: A biographical appraisal of the roles of Motz as writer, editor and business manager of the "Berliner Journal" and of the newspaper's influence in preserving German culture. The author presents a ...Keywords: NewspapersGerman languageBerlin (Ontario)Berliner JournalBiographiesMotz JohnMotz familyRittinger FriedrichRittinger John Adam (1855-1915)Year of publication: 1991Historical Period: 1859-1911Export options:A plea for peoplehood: religious and ethnic identity, continuity, and change among the Mennonites of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
Type: ThesisAbstract: An analysis of the ethnic identity of the Mennonites, with particular reference to the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Topics include religious divisions, the amalgamation of church conferences, and the ...Keywords: MennonitesEthnic identityGermanCultural identityAcculturationKitchenerWaterlooWaterloo RegionMennonite Central CommitteeInter-Mennonite ConferenceYear of publication: 1989Historical Period: 1800-1989Export options:Berlin, Ontario, 1916
Type: ThesisAbstract: An analysis of the 1916 Berlin assessment rolls, the first year for which there is a complete assessment record. The author concludes that by 1916 the German entrepreneurial elite was being ...Keywords: OccupationsSchoolsDemographic statisticsBusinessesIndustriesEthnic groupsEthnic identityGermansBerlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 197Historical Period: 1912-1916Export options:Border crossings: The making of German identities in the New World, 1850--1914
Type: ThesisAbstract: Border crossings, in both their literal and figurative sense, are central to the experience of migration. This study explores the making of German identities in two localities, Berlin (Ontario) and ...Keywords: Berlin (Ontario)Ethnic identityYear of publication: 2002Historical Period: 1850-1914Export options:Canada Kalender
Type: MiscellaneousAbstract: An annual publication containing information pertinent to each day of the year such as the time the sun rises and sets, weather predictions, holidays, seasons, astrological and astronomical data, ...Year of publication: 1849Historical Period: 1847-1920Export options:Canadian Society for German Relief Bulletin
Type: MiscellaneousAbstract: A bulletin published in co-operation with the Göttingen Research Committee into the Refugee and Expellee Problem, an organization devoted to the alleviation of suffering in Germany and Austria. The ...Year of publication: 1948Historical Period: 1948-1953Export options:Canadiana Germanica: a journal for German- Canadian Studies and news bulletin of the German-Canadian Historical Association and the Historical Society of Mecklenburg Upper Canada Ont.
Type: MiscellaneousAbstract: A quarterly publication with articles in both English and German on German-Canadians. Many are transcripts or facsimiles of articles in other periodicals such as the "Kitchener-Waterloo Record". ...Keywords: GermansEthnic identityIndexesPeriodicalsMennonitesPennsylvania GermansOntarioWaterloo CountyAssociations and clubsYear of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1799-1992Export options:Contesting social exclusion: An interrogation of its self-imposed expressions
Type: ThesisAbstract: Popular articulations of social inclusion as an indisputable social value and inspired direction for social policy are contingent on its undesirable counterpart, and can be realized only through ...Year of publication: 2006Export options:Convention, power and the self in German Mennonite magic
Type: ThesisAbstract: This dissertation looks at how historical problems have been defined in cultural anthropology. Attention has been given to how notions of evidence and argument have changed in anthropology since the ...Year of publication: 1987Export options: