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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
President's address: Early settlement in Upper Canada
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A survey of pioneer settlement in Waterloo in the context of early Upper Canada.Keywords: Pennsylvania GermansMennonitesWar 1775-1783 American RevolutionaryUnited Empire LoyalistsIndigenous peoplesYear of publication: 1923Historical Period: 1800-1923Export options:Psycho-social roles of Mennonite children
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Reference from the Canadian Periodical Index.Year of publication: 1969Historical Period: 1969Export options:Retirement of Newspaperman Earl Werstine
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A profile of Werstine's roles as reporter, editor and columnist for 63 years on the "Galt Evening Reporter", including references to his coverage of the 1907 and 1947 Old Boys' Reunions and his " ...Keywords: NewspapersBiographiesReunionsYear of publication: 1969Historical Period: 1907-1969Export options:Sixty-sixth wedding anniversary
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A note of the anniversary of Mr and Mrs Abraham Wismer of Preston.Year of publication: 1969Historical Period: 1903-1969Export options:Sources for a study of the Mennonites of Waterloo County
Type: ThesisAbstract: Apparently a student essay in librarianship that lists and comments on about 100 bibliographic items in the following thematic groups: Mennonite faith and history, life in America, immigration to ...Year of publication: 1969Historical Period: 1800-1968Export options:The Eby family as related to the Brubachers
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A brief history of the Eby family's migrations from Switzerland to Pennsylvania and then to Waterloo County. The author explains the Ebys' original connection with the Brubachers through the ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesPennsylvania GermansSwissMennonitesEby Ezra E.Eby TheodorusEby ChristianMayer ElizabethBricker CatherineYear of publication: 1923Historical Period: 1800-1923Export options:The Hespeler family
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An account of the descendants of John George and Anna Wick Hespeler. For each of their nine children (Jacob, Ferdinanda, William, Stephanie, Louis, Marie, Wilhelmina, Anna Barbara and Charlotte), ...Keywords: GenealogySettlers EnglishSettlers GermanFlour mill industryDistilling industryBarrel making industryBox industrySports Horse racingBiographiesRussian MennonitesYear of publication: 1969Historical Period: 1810-1921Export options:The Hunsbergers: a portion of the genealogy history of a few Swiss Hunspergers (also spelled Hunstsberger, Honsberger, Huntzberger)
Type: BookAbstract: A revised edition of the 1941 book, with a chapter on Hunsbergers in Canada. Most Waterloo County Hunsbergers in this book, identified in the text by the letters CD, are descendants of Abraham and ...Keywords: GenealogyFamiliesMennonitesSettlers PennsylvaniaHunsberger AbrahamHunsberger AbramHunsberger Mollie Janzen (m. Abram)Waterloo CountyNew HamburgBadenYear of publication: 1969Historical Period: 1801-1969Export options:The Martin H. Bauman family history
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogical account, based on Eby's history of Waterloo Township, a mimeographed 1932 listing of the descendants of Martin H. Bauman, and the genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Bauman by Sarah ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesPennsylvania GermansMennonitesBauman familyBowman familyWaterloo TownshipPrestonYear of publication: 1969Historical Period: 1800-1969Export options:The Phonemic System of the Pennsylvania German Dialect in Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ThesisYear of publication: 1969Export options: