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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
A broken bowl
Type: BookKeywords:Year of publication: 1997Export 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 house of dreams: two Waterloo county young people from very different backgrounds struggle to build their own home
Type: BookKeywords: Schwantz familySchwantz Paul 1846-1929Grody Elizabeth 1855-1934BiographiesHespelerPennsylvania GermansYear of publication: 1997Export options:A. M. Fire and Storm [Insurance]: Simplicity in a Strongly Amish Institution
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A group of primarily Old Order Amish and Mennonite churches in Ontario successfully maintain the Amish Mennonite Fire and Storm Aid Union that insures their members against natural disaster without ...Keywords: OntarioAssociations and clubsMennonites (Old Order)InsuranceAmish Mennonite Fire and Storm Aid UnionAmishYear of publication: 1997Historical Period: 1872-1997Export options:'A Raw and Hopeful Field': Nineteenth-Century Baptist Evangelism and Church Planting among Ontario's Germans
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Reviews Baptist work among German immigrants in Ontario. Revival efforts are exemplified in the lives of three men: August Rauschenbusch, Heinrich Schneider, and Johannes Stumpf. These men faced ...Keywords: ClergyEvangelismBaptistsYear of publication: 1997Export options:Adler auf dem Ahornbaum: Studien zur Einwanderung, Siedlung, Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte der Deutschen in Kanada
Type: BookYear of publication: 1997Export options:Amish and Tunkers critiqued ca. 1830
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Contemporary descriptions of Waterloo County Amish and Tunkers in the 1830s, taken from a journal of Rev. William Proudfoot and a letter by Christian G. Klinckhardt. Brief introductions by E. ...Keywords: TunkersAmishMennonitesPennsylvania GermansEducationGerman languageCustoms and traditionsAgricultureWaterloo TownshipWilmot TownshipYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1829-1834Export options:Antisemitism in Ontario: the twentieth century
Type: Book ChapterKeywords: Anti-SemitismYear of publication: 1992Export options:Archaeological mitigative excavation, Joseph Hoffman site (AjHd-27), draft plan of subdivision 30T-87027, town of Heidelberg
Type: ReportAbstract: Analysis of artifacts of glass, ceramics, metal and animal bones associated with a mid- 1850s homestead site.Keywords: ArchaeologySettlersHeidelbergYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1850-1870Export options: