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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Elfriede and company: a tale of two families
Type: BookAbstract: The chronicle of the Janzen family, Russian Mennonites who fled to Waterloo County in 1924. The story includes the Neufeld family, for Eliese Neufeld married Rev. Jacob H. Janzen, and both had ...Keywords: BiographiesMennonitesRussian MennonitesGenealogyMusicArt and artistsSocial conditionsEducational exchangesChildrenSettlers UkrainianYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1903-1979Export options:Ephraim Weber's letters home 1902-1955: letters from Ephraim Weber to Leslie Staebler of Waterloo County
Type: BookAbstract: Transcripts of letters from a teacher in western Canada to a Berlin High School friend with a mutual interest in the Christian Science Church, Herbert Leslie Staebler. The editors note in their ...Keywords: BiographiesMennonitesAssociations and clubsEthnic identityEthnic groupsMusicWritersChurches Christian ScientistTeachersCorrespondenceYear of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1902-1955Export options:Hagey Mennonite Cemetery (CC#5431): Beasley's Broken Front Concession, Waterloo Township
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions, with plan and index, of some 450 stones. The cemetery dates from 1824 and is now located on Fountain Street North, across from the Preston Cemetery and beside Park Lawn Cemetery. The ...Year of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1824-1987Export options:Jacob H. Janzen: a minister of rare magnitude
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A summary of the life, ideas and accomplishments of Jacob Heinrich Janzen (1878-1950). He was a Russian Mennonite preacher, teacher and writer who became bishop of the Waterloo-Kitchener United ...Keywords: ClergyMennonitesWorld War IRussian MennonitesCultural adaptationReligious dissensionGerman languageBiographiesJanzen Jacob H. Rev.Janzen Eliese Neufeld (m. Jacob H.)Year of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1924-1950Export options:Mennonite representations of nature in the nineteenth century
Type: ThesisAbstract: A study of Mennonite views of the natural world and human relationships to it, with special reference to Waterloo Township. Key concepts are "nature," "wilderness", and "stewardship" and agricultural ...Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1800-1900Export options:Milo Shantz, entrepreneur
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A profile of Milo Shantz, as founder of Hybrid Turkeys Inc., the non-profit foundation Mersynergy, the Mennonite interpretation centre known as The Meeting Place in St Jacobs, The Stone Crock ...Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1953-1994Export options:Moses S. Bowman era, 1819-1898
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An account of the farm and family of Moses, who moved from GCT54 in Waterloo Township in 1845 to Wilmot Township, and became a minister in the Latschar Mennonite Church west of Mannheim. Annotated ...Keywords: MennonitesAgricultureFood customsWilmot TownshipWaterloo TownshipMannheimBowman Moses S.Bowman Anna Cressman (m. Moses S.)Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1845-1890Export options:Readers' ancestry
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An illustrated genealogy of the family of Aden Eby and his wife, Ruby Winger. The family is descended from Benjamin Eby, a leading Mennonite of Waterloo Township, and John Winger, founder of the ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesPennsylvania GermansTunkersEby familyEby AdenEby Ruby Winger (m. Aden)Eby ElizabethEby MalcolmEby DwightYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1806-1988Export options:Refugee pilgrimage: a story of God's care. Lina (Heinrich) Wohlgemut: from Poland
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: The story of how the author's mother led her fatherless family first from the advancing Russian army in early 1945, and then by way of a Mennonite Central Committee refugee camp to Canada in late ...Keywords: ImmigrationMennonitesWorld War IIRefugeesWomenMennonite Central CommitteeWohlgemut Lina (Heinrich)Dick AbramDick AnnaDick PeterYear of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1945-1995Export options:Salute to Eldon D. Weber
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A profile of the man best known to local historians for his new edition of Ezra E. Eby's biographical history of Waterloo Township (1895-6) in 1971, and for his genealogies of Henry H. Weber's ...Keywords: MennonitesAssociations and clubsTeachersAgricultureGenealogyFarmersBiographiesWaterloo CountyCentrevilleGerman MillsYear of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1913-1995Export options: