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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
'A Raw and Hopeful Field': Nineteenth-Century Baptist Evangelism and Church Planting among Ontario's Germans
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Reviews Baptist work among German immigrants in Ontario. Revival efforts are exemplified in the lives of three men: August Rauschenbusch, Heinrich Schneider, and Johannes Stumpf. These men faced ...Keywords: ClergyEvangelismBaptistsYear of publication: 1997Export options:Baden's medical men
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Profiles of Baden's physicians from 1873 to 1949, including basic biographical information, details of their training and where they went after leaving Baden: apart from one doctor who retired due to ...Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1873-1949Export options:Contribution of the Mennonites to the development of Waterloo County
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An essay in the special centennial issue about the role of Mennonites in settling Waterloo County and their subsequent contributions as farmers, entrepreneurs, educators, lawyers, clergy and ...Keywords: MennonitesAgricultureOccupationsWomenIndustriesSettlersPennsylvania GermansAmishWaterloo CountyBeasley's TractYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1967Export options:Diaries as sources for studying Mennonite history
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A discussion of the cultural values and the seasonal round of farm-based tasks and social interactions revealed in the diaries of four Mennonite men in Waterloo County in the 1880s and 1890s -- ...Keywords: Berlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1991Historical Period: 1880-1920Export options:Harvey W. Taves: one of Christ's men
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A biographical tribute to the achievements of Harvey Taves (1926-1965), the last director of the Canadian headquarters of the Mennonite Central Committee in Kitchener which closed in 1964, and one of ...Year of publication: 1989Historical Period: 1926-1965Export options:Medical men of Conestogo
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Thumbnail sketches of six doctors: William Julius Passmore, Francis Hartman Wells, Frederick Evans Grant, John H. Evans, and Robert J. Darragh. Dr Passmore was the most influential: he married a ...Year of publication: 1993Historical Period: 1842-1907Export options:Mennonite me
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:Today, the small chapel is filled with people. Women, unadorned, wearing simple, modest dresses, their long hair tucked under black caps, sit with their daughters on one side. Men and boys sit ...
Year of publication: 2015Export options:Mennonite men make meals
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:[Wally Dirks] was one of 11 retired men who gathered at Waterloo-Kitchener United Mennonite Church on the four Fridays in February to learn cooking basics. [Erika Tubb] felt that the basics ...
Keywords: CookingChefsMenChurches MennoniteYear of publication: 2015Export options:New Germany's medical men
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Biographical outlines of Maryhill's doctors, from Dr Friedrich Christ in 1854 to Dr Patrick Joseph Kirby who left in 1912.Keywords: PhysiciansBiographiesChrist Friedrich DrHug NicolausBecker Wilhelm DrRoberts Hugh G. DrOccupationsNew GermanyMaryhillGermansYear of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1854-1912Export options:Sir Adam Beck
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A profile of the native of Baden, Ontario stressing his achievements in the iron foundry and milling business, politics, and the distribution of hydro-electrical power in southwestern Ontario. The ...Year of publication: 1925Historical Period: 1837-1925Export options: