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7th cousins: an automythography
Type: BookAbstract:"From July 7th to August 6th, 2015, we walked 700 kilometres, from Pennsylvania to Ontario. A stranger asked if we were walking to learn how to work and be together. This was certainly part of it ...
Keywords: CanadaBiographyDescription and travelHikingHospitalityNortheastern StatesTravelWomen performance artistsYear of publication: 2019Export options:A genealogical record of the descendants of Joseph Laschinger, Abraham Nash and Gwer Merner
Type: ReportAbstract: A family history of the author's forebears, the Laschingers of New Hamburg, who intermarried with the Nash and Merner families. Reminiscences of the author's childhood in New Hamburg and memories of ...Keywords: BiographiesGenealogyCarriages and wagons industryChildrenFarmersPoliticiansPost officesChurches EvangelicalWar 1861-1865 American CivilMerner FamilyYear of publication: 1966Historical Period: 1819-1966Export options:A history of the ancestors and descendants of Peter P. Martin, also a short sketch of the Daniel M. Brubacher family
Type: BookAbstract: A record of the two Waterloo County families from 1650 to 1966. Biographical information about some family members is included, and there is an alphabetical index of names.Keywords: GenealogySettlers PennsylvaniaBiographiesMartin familyMartin Peter P.Brubacher Daniel M.Waterloo CountyPennsylvania Berks CountyPennsylvania Lancaster CountyYear of publication: 1966Historical Period: 1800-1966Export options:A reflexive view of refugee integration and inclusion
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:Through a qualitative case study with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) sponsorship groups and former refugee newcomers, we adopt a reflexive, relational, and systemic lens (Bourdieu) to analyze ...
Keywords: MennonitesAmbivalenceCase studiesCommitteesCorporate sponsorshipHabitusInterpersonal relationsNewcomersQualitative researchRefugeesYear of publication: 2019Export options:Advocating for peace: stories from the Ottawa office of Mennonite Central Committee, 1975-2008
Type: BookAbstract:"In 1975, Mennonite Central Committee Canada established the Ottawa Office to monitor and interpret government policy for its Mennonite and Brethren in Christ constituency, and to undertake ...
Year of publication: 2019Historical Period: 1975-2008Export options:Advocating for peace: stories from the Ottawa office of Mennonite Central Committee, 1975-2008
Type: BookAbstract:"In 1975, Mennonite Central Committee Canada established the Ottawa Office to monitor and interpret government policy for its Mennonite and Brethren in Christ constituency, and to undertake ...
Year of publication: 2019Historical Period: 1975-2008Export options:Althergebracht und mehr Mennonitische Rezepte (Wheatley A.K.M.G. Sonntagschule): dieses Kochbuch ist zuzsammengestellet von
Type: BookYear of publication: 2019Export options: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:Archaeological investigations of the Ministry of Natural Resources, District Field Office, Cambridge, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Report of a study involving test excavations, surface surveys and discussions with an aged descendant of John Groh, the original pioneer settler of Concession 1, Lot 7, Waterloo Township. Included ...Year of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1804-1955Export options:Augustus Jones, Upper Canada Public Land Surveyor
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A biographical sketch of one of the earliest surveyors in Upper Canada, who surveyed the Grand River Indian land for Joseph Brant as well as eleven townships between Toronto and the Trent River. ...Year of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1786-1836Export options: