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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Abandoned Baptist Mission Cemetery (CC#4550): Canada Company Block B, Concession
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index of 25 stones in the small cemetery that lies behind a log house to the left of the Philipsburg- Wellesley road. The log house was first a Baptist church built in 1837, later ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyBuildings LogYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1837-1942Export options:Berlett's Corner Cemetery (CC#4552): Canada Company Block B, Concession III, Lot 13, Wilmot Township
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of grave markers, numbered by rows, with an index of names. The introduction notes that the cemetery occupies the site of the Berlett's Corners Lutheran Church, next to a building ...Year of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1862-1925Export options:Bridging mind & spirit : Conrad Grebel University College, 1963-2013
Type: BookKeywords: MennonitesConrad Grebel CollegeYear of publication: 2013Historical Period: 1963-2013Export options:Cooperation to Amalgamation to Merger: the Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Over the course of the 20th century an Amish and two Mennonite groups in Ontario - the Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec, the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference, and the United Mennonite ...Year of publication: 1993Export options:Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery (CC#4556): Petersburg, Wilmot Township
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of about 225 stones listed by row and plot, followed by an index. The introduction notes that there have been four church buildings associated with the cemetery, dating from 1844, 1851 ...Year of publication: 1990Historical Period: 1844-1980Export options:Freeborn Cemetery, also known as Zion Presbyterian Cemetery (CC#4543): West Concession 3, Lot 10, Wellesley Township
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of nearly 100 stones, by row and plot, followed by an index. The introduction notes that the cemetery, while located on what was historically the Freeborn farm, served as a community ...Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1845-1988Export 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:Jacob and Johannes Roos
Type: ReportAbstract: Text of a speech to the Waterloo- Wellington Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society about descendants of two German families who settled in Preston and Wilmot Township. A photocopy of a letter ...Keywords: GenealogyRoos familyRoos JacobRoos MargaretRoos JohnRoos Maria Bronner (m. John)Roos CharlesRoos Elizabeth Zing (m. Charles)Roos GeorgeRoos Katherine Schmidt (m. George)Year of publication: 1985Historical Period: 1813-1985Export options:Mennonite women slowly gain equality
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A general review with no specific references to Waterloo County except that one of the two photographs shows Mennonites picking berries in Berlin, circa 1912.Year of publication: 1986Historical Period: 1800-1985Export options:Mennonites in Ontario: an introduction
Type: BookAbstract: Successor to the booklet by J. Winfield Fretz, published in 1967 (and reprinted in 1974 and 1982), this concise account has short chapters defining Ontario Mennonites, tracing the origins of ...Keywords: MennonitesTechnologyEthnic groupsOccupationsCustoms and traditionsAgricultureEducationAmishMennonites (Old Order)OntarioYear of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1787-1994Export options: