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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
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:Accounting for Difference: the Problem of Pacifism in Early Upper Canada
Type: Journal ArticleKeywords: PacifismMennonitesGerman Baptist BrethrenUpper CanadaReligious Society of FriendsTunkersYorkYear of publication: 1998Historical Period: 1792-1814Export options:Berlin's Button Workers: A Case Study of Socio-Economic Mobility in Berlin, Ontario: 1869-1914
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Describes the origins of button manufacturers and their businesses in Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario. Factory owners including Emil Vogelsang, Henry S. Huber, Jacob Y. Shantz, and Samuel S. Moyer were ...Keywords: Berlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1998Export options:Branching out: the transformation of the Canadian Jewish community
Type: BookKeywords: JewsEthnic identityYear of publication: 1998Export options:Cholera: it swept this area like a scythe
Type: BookAbstract: A copy of an article from the "Kitchener- Waterloo Record" of 21 November 1963 by Laurie Jennings, with additional information on members of the Hembling family who were Bridgeport cholera victims, ...Keywords: Diseases CholeraFarmersSanitationGenealogyTelfer JohnMiller Robert DrCushman JosiahScott John DrGaukel Marie Roschang (m. Frederick)Gaukel HarryYear of publication: 1966Historical Period: 1813-1895Export options:Chorus of different voices : German-Canadian identities
Type: BookKeywords: Ethnic identityGermansYear of publication: 1998Export options:Christian Litwiller genealogy 1848-1966
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy of the descendants of Christian (1848-1924), youngest son of Peter and Elizabeth Lichti of Wilmot Township. Christian was ordained a minister of the Wilmot Amish Mennonite Church in 1877 ...Keywords: GenealogyClergyFarmersBiographiesChurches MennoniteAmishLitwiller familyLitwiller PeterLitwiller Elizabeth Lichti (m. Peter)Litwiller ChristianYear of publication: 1966Historical Period: 1829-1966Export options:Community Identity and Language Change in North American Anabaptist Communities
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Draws on archival research & on fieldwork conducted since 1984 in Swartzentruber Amish communities in New York, & in Old Order Amish & Mennonite communities in New York, along the ...Year of publication: 1998Export options:Dangerous elements
Type: BookKeywords:Year of publication: 1998Export options: