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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
The new cemetery of St Boniface Roman Catholic Church, Church Street, Maryhill, Woolwich Township, Waterloo Region
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index, plan, and a brief description of the cemetery.Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1953-1994Export options:The old walled cemetery of St Boniface Roman Catholic Church, Church Street, Maryhill, Woolwich Township, Waterloo Region
Type: ReportAbstract: A revised edition of the 1985 list of transcriptions, with an index and plan of nearly 700 markers. One hundred and nineteen were in German and were translated by Anna Klausnitzer. A suggested ...Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1851-1994Export options:Uncle Hannes and Levi
Type: BookAbstract: A description of a week's events in the life of a Mennonite boy who lived near Hespeler at the end of the nineteenth century. Two of the main characters and their families are fictitious but most are ...Year of publication: 1970Historical Period: 1800-1900Export options:Why the Bechtel, Biehn, Betzner and Gingrich families chose the Beasley Tract in 1800
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A partly fictionalized account of how the early Pennsylvania Mennonite and Tunker settlers came to Waterloo Township and paid Richard Beasley forty thousand dollars for sixty thousand acres. The ...Keywords: FictionTunkersLand ownershipAgricultureCustoms and traditionsPennsylvania GermansSettlersUpper CanadaWaterloo TownshipGerman languageYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1804Export options: