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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
The Quest for Mennonite Peoplehood: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Dilemma of Definitions
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Using data from 1984 to 1988 of predominantly Swiss Canadian Mennonites from southern Ontario, examines the ambiguity that arises from attempts to define a group identity in light of the outside ...Year of publication: 1993Export options:The trail of the black walnut
Type: BookYear of publication: 1993Export options:'Till they get tidings from those who are gone...': Thomas Sockett and letters from Petworth emigrants
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A discussion of settlers' letters which were encouraged and published by promoters of a colonization project by which emigrants from the southern English counties (such as Sussex, Surrey, Kent and ...Year of publication: 1993Historical Period: 1832-1837Export options:Two pioneers of New Hamburg: William James Scott and Carl Germann
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Biographical sketches of two early settlers of New Hamburg whose families became related through marriage.Keywords: GermansBiographiesNew HamburgYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1812-1860Export options:Waterloo Chronicle's Century Honoured
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A brief account of the newspaper's centennial celebrations.Keywords: NewspapersWaterloo CountyJaffray WilliamHett CasperKumpf ChristianBowman John J.Moyer P.E.W.Hilliard ThomasBean DavidDippel M.G.Year of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1854-1967Export options:Waterloo County to 1972: an Annotated Bibliography of Regional History
Type: BookAbstract: Annotated bibliographic references to about 890 books, 620 booklets, 540 reports, 290 theses, and 1,850 articles and notes, as well as newspapers, chapters in books, directory series, gazetteers and ...Keywords: BibliographiesIndexesAgricultureArchitectureArchive recordsBiographiesBusinessesCemeteriesChurchesUrbanizationYear of publication: 1993Historical Period: 1800-1990Export options:Waterloo wills: a genealogical index in two volumes of wills and related estate documents, 19th century registry office records, County of Waterloo
Type: BookAbstract: An index with over fifteen thousand entries of personal names found in wills, dating from 1798-1900, held at the Waterloo County Land Registry Office. An historical review, maps, chronology, an ...Year of publication: 1993Historical Period: 1798-1900Export options:West Montrose Mennonite Cemetery (CC#4588): German Company Tract, lot 72, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Cemetery transcriptions of thirty headstones, with an index of names. The earliest burial was in 1954.Year of publication: 1993Historical Period: 1954-1990Export options:When names become politically incorrect
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Many place names in Canada were changed after Canadians fought wars against countries from which those names originated or when foreign heroes were subsequently deemed monstrous. Of the approximately ...Year of publication: 1993Export options:Why the Bechtel, Biehn, Betzner and Gingrich families chose the Beasley Tract in 1800
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A partly fictionalized account of how the early Pennsylvania Mennonite and Tunker settlers came to Waterloo Township and paid Richard Beasley forty thousand dollars for sixty thousand acres. The ...Keywords: FictionTunkersLand ownershipAgricultureCustoms and traditionsPennsylvania GermansSettlersUpper CanadaWaterloo TownshipGerman languageYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1804Export options: