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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Samuel Merner
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A profile of the entrepreneur who developed an extensive trade in blacksmithing and wagon- and carriage- building in New Hamburg and Waterloo into a wide range of other commercial and industrial ...Year of publication: 1907Historical Period: 1823-1906Export options:The Canada directory: containing the names of the professional and business men of every description, in the cities, towns, and principal villages of Canada: together with a complete post office directory of the province; a directory to public offices, officers and institutions; a variety of statistical and commercial tables, exhibiting the population, trade, revenue, expenditure, imports, exports, public works, etc., etc.,
Type: MiscellaneousAbstract:A directory including the following Waterloo County centres: Ayr, Berlin, Bridgeport, Galt, Hawkesville, New Hope, Petersburg, Waterloo and Wellesley. Advertisements are included, many from the ...
Keywords: Census recordsYear of publication: 1851Historical Period: 1850-1851Export options:The changing functions of Elmira
Type: ThesisAbstract: An historical account of the establishment and growth of the community from a crossroads settlement to an independent centre, in three phases: the pioneer period (1835-1890), diversification and ...Keywords: Community historiesPopulationLand useTradeLabour forceRailwaysIndustriesFarmers' marketsCities and townsYear of publication: 1965Historical Period: 1835-1965Export options:The Dresden Story: Racism, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Uses a case study of Dresden, Ontario, to explore how organized labor, particularly the Jewish Labour Committee, contributed to the development of human rights values and antidiscrimination law in ...Keywords: DresdenLabour movementsJewsYear of publication: 2001Export options:The Public Career of P.R. Hilborn: a Waterloo County Entrepreneur
Type: ThesisAbstract: A biography of Percy Richard Hilborn (1886-1972) by his grandson, tracing his entrepreneurial rise and fall. Hilborn made his fortune with Canada Sand Papers Ltd and furniture factories but sold his ...Keywords: BiographiesArt and artistsParksWorld War IIFurnitureIndustriesEconomic conditionsEntrepreneursLabour movementsHilborn Percy Richard (1886-1972)Year of publication: 1977Historical Period: 1886-1972Export options:The Undermining of Unity within the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1928-35
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: The Jewish labor movement in Toronto was divided during 1928-35 because of rivalry within the garment industry between the Communist-led Industrial Union of Needle Trades Workers and other anti- ...Year of publication: 1987Export options:William T. Sass
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A profile of the Kitchener furniture manufacturer.Keywords: BiographiesFurniture industrySass W.T.Ford HomerKrug HartmanKitchener City CouncilKitchener Board of TradeKitchener-Waterloo Collegiate BoardInterior Hardwood Co. BerlinInterior Hardwood Co. KitchenerYear of publication: 1927Historical Period: 1866-1926Export options:William Uffelman
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An obituary of the prominent Waterloo citizen who was foreman with the Dominion Rubber Company for fifteen years, president of the Waterloo Board of Trade, and Reeve and Mayor of Waterloo.Year of publication: 1947Historical Period: 1947Export options: