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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Oscar Rumpel
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A profile of the Kitchener felt slipper manufacturer who took over the old factory of Williams, Greene and Rome in 1913.Keywords: BiographiesFelt industryPoliticiansRumpel OscarRumpel Ada Hilborn (m. Oscar)Rumpel Felt Co. KitchenerKitchener City CouncilKitchener Daily RecordWilliams Greene and Rome Co. BerlinBerlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1927Historical Period: 1875-1926Export options:Philip S. Lautenschlager
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A profile of the Berlin businessman and community leader.Keywords: BiographiesButton industryMusicLautenschlager P.S.Lautenschlager familyBoehmer HenryCity Heating Co. BerlinBerlin Town CouncilBerlin Board of HealthEconomical Mutual Fire Insurance Co.Year of publication: 1927Historical Period: 1840-1926Export options:Robert Arthur Dietrich
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A biography of Henry A. Dietrich, founder of the Berlin bakery and city councillor.Keywords: BiographiesBaking industryPoliticiansDietrich Robert A.Dietrich Henry A.Dietrich's Bakery BerlinBerlin City CouncilSt Mary's Roman Catholic Church BerlinSt AgathaBerlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1927Historical Period: 1864-1926Export options:Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery (CC#4509): Kitchener, Weber Street East
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with indexes of some 2,000 markers in the cemetery established in 1871 by the congregation which organized in 1862. The land was bought from Menno Erb and the cemetery, which adjoins ...Year of publication: 1991Historical Period: 1862-1990Export options:Scrapbook of Herbert Enns, concerning his family and its emigration from Russia in 1917
Type: ReportAbstract: A collection of documents assembled by the author in 1977 and photocopied by the Kitchener Public Library. Items include a financial statement issued by the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization, ...Year of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1917-1977Export options:Scrapbook of Joseph Wolfe Lieberman: containing clippings of his legal cases and other matters
Type: ReportAbstract: Photocopied newspaper clippings, most of them published by the "Timmins Daily Press" prior to 1951 when the criminal lawyer moved to Kitchener.Year of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1950-1988Export options:Some notes on the background of this unique centre, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada: a short series of articles of interest
Type: ReportAbstract: A brief account of Pennsylvania German culture in the Waterloo area, including farming, art and cooking.Year of publication: 0Historical Period: 1800-c1970Export options:Speakers of German in Kitchener-Waterloo: Assimilation and Shift
Type: Book ChapterYear of publication: 2003Export options:Strasburg Lutheran Cemetery (CC#6480): Waterloo Township
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of 13 markers with an index. The introduction notes that the first log church was built in 1847-48 and the cemetery was officially established in 1850, though some burials occurred ...Year of publication: 1990Historical Period: 1845-1910Export options:The Ahrens story
Type: ReportAbstract: A lively narrative of the life and times of the Ahrens family, German immigrants who were prominent in the development of Berlin/Kitchener and related to the J.M. Schneider family by marriage. The ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesAhrens familySettlersGermansBerlin (Ontario)KitchenerChurches Swedenborgians19th century20th centuryYear of publication: 1981Historical Period: 1803-1980Export options: