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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
A.R. Kaufman: the man behind the name
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A brief biography of the Kitchener industrialist by a friend and former employee. The article relates anecdotes about Kaufman's relationships with his workers and his many outside interests, ...Keywords: EntrepreneursBiographiesKaufman A.R. (1885-1979)KitchenerBerlin (Ontario)19th century20th centuryYear of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1885-1979Export options:Died in 1963
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A list of notable people from Waterloo County who died in 1963, including Addison A. Armbrust, T. Marshall Aver, Charles Harry Boehmer, Martha Edna Breithaupt, Ewan Cameron, Roy B. Hemmerich, Charles ...Keywords: BiographiesObituariesWomenOccupationsAssociations and clubsMennonitesGermansKitchenerWaterlooHespelerYear of publication: 1963Historical Period: 1864-1963Export options:Emma R. Kaufman and the Tokyo YWCA
Type: BookAbstract: A biography mentioning the Kaufman family background in Berlin, Ontario and emphasizing Emma's life and accomplishments in Japan.Keywords: Kaufman Emma R.Kaufman familyBiographiesGermansBerlin (Ontario)Kitchener19th century20th centuryYoung Women's Christian AssociationYear of publication: 1963Historical Period: 1881-1963Export options:Father Winter honoured
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A biographical sketch of Rev. Simon J. Winter, who in 1963 had been teaching for almost fifty years at St Jerome's College.Year of publication: 1963Historical Period: 1914-1963Export options:History and genealogy of Jacob and Lydia (Leonard) Brenneman family, 1843-1963
Type: BookAbstract: Jacob Brenneman, the son of an Amish Mennonite pioneer family, grew up in Wilmot Township. He settled in South Easthope Township at the time of his marriage about 1840. An account of each of the ten ...Keywords: GenealogyReligious dissensionFarmersSettlers IrishSettlers GermanMennonitesAmishSouth Easthope TownshipBrenneman familyHelmuth familyYear of publication: 1963Historical Period: 1843-1963Export options:Kitchener: an illustrated history
Type: BookAbstract: A study of Berlin/Kitchener in which the themes of economic growth, population and ethnicity, the urban landscape, and social and political life are discussed in six broad eras. These are the early ...Keywords: Berlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1799-1979Export options:Ontario local history
Type: ReportAbstract: Local history and feature stories dealing with 830 Ontario municipalities and clipped from newspapers mainly of the 1950s and 1960s. Waterloo County communities represented in the collection are Ayr ...Keywords: Buildings StoneBusinessesEconomic conditionsFactoriesFinancial institutionsIndustriesOwnership ForeignOwnership LocalNewspapersYear of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1950-1970Export options:Resources for local history and genealogical research
Type: BookAbstract: A list of resource materials located in the Kitchener Public Library, including municipal, county, business, church and family histories as well as primary sources such as census records, directories ...Year of publication: 1983Historical Period: c1800-1983Export options:Transcription from tombstones in the original part of the Free Church Cemetery, Kitchener (Bridgeport)
Type: ReportAbstract: Typed with handwritten additions, in an unexplained order.Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyYear of publication: 1983Export options:Wi hollen tausamen, Rieck
Type: ReportAbstract: A record of the ancestors and descendants of Friedrich Christian Heinrich Rieck, who with his wife Wilhelmine Ilker, came to the county in 1873. [Mecklenburg dialect: Wi hollen tausamen = "We stick ...Keywords: GenealogySettlersKitchenerBerlin (Ontario)Germany Mecklenburg-StrelitzRieck familyRieck FrederickRieck Wilhelmine Ilker (m. Frederick)Year of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1873-1983Export options: