About

The German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography (GCO) was started in 2007 and is a project of the University of Waterloo Library. It is updated continuously, as new information becomes available.

Scope

includes documentation relating to German-speaking people and their descendants (where elements of "Germanness" have been identified) in Ontario
covers aspects such as origin or ancestry, identity, language, social and political history, and religion
includes subtler dimensions such as culture, folklore, literature, architecture, the arts, and practices such as food preparation
represents published primary, secondary and tertiary sources, and covers all publication formats
lists source documents spanning from the late eighteenth century to the present

Tips for locating items in GCO

Most items listed in GCO are held by Ontario libraries and archives. Below are suggested sites to help you pinpoint locations. If the item you need is not available locally, request it through interlibrary loan service available at your local library.

Catalogues:

WorldCat
Omni, the library catalogue, which includes the holdings of 16 academic libraries in Ontario
Kitchener Public Library's catalogue
Region of Waterloo Library's catalogue, which includes the holdings of the following branches: Ayr, Baden, Bloomingdale, Elmira, Linwood, New Dundee, New Hamburg, St. Clements, St. Jacobs, and Wellesley

Vendors of new and used books:

Compilers

Tom Harding, Librarian for Germanic and Slavic Studies, UWaterloo Library
Helena Calogeridis, retired Librarian for Germanic and Slavic Studies, UWaterloo Library
Jane Forgay, retired Librarian for History and Political Science, UWaterloo Library

Copyright information

Elizabeth Bloomfield has generously given us permission to extract relevant records from the WATERLOO REGIONAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY SYSTEM, a system Dr. Bloomfield created and for which she holds the copyright. These records have greatly enriched the GCO Bibliography. These entries are identified in the "Source" field of the GCO Bibliography records. To discover sources describing all aspects Waterloo Region (pre-1973), consult the work by Elizabeth Bloomfield: Waterloo County to 1972: an Annotated Bibliography of Regional History (with Linda Foster and Jane Forgay). Kitchener: Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993.

While GCO is in the public domain it contains some bibliographic citations derived from proprietary databases. Such material, however, may be used under the terms of "fair dealing" as defined in the copyright laws, which generally permit use for non-commercial educational purposes such as research, private study, criticism, review and news reporting. To help identify the original provenance, all relevant records have their source of data recorded.