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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Und ob ich schon wanderte--: Geschichten zur Geschichte der Flucht und Wanderung der Mennoniten von Preussen über Russland nach Amerika
Type: BookKeywords: Mennonites ColonizationMennonites Prussia (Germany) HistoryCanada Emigration and immigrationLatin America Emigration and immigrationUnited States Emigration and immigrationYear of publication: 1997Export options:Underground to Canada
Type: BookKeywords: Underground railroad Juvenile fictionYear of publication: 1999Export options:Up the Conestogo
Type: BookAbstract: An historical account of the lifestyles of the Old Order Mennonites in North America, with particular reference to Waterloo County. Beginning with the settlement years, the author notes events, ...Keywords: DiseasesMapsEthnic groupsEthnic identityGerman languageGenealogyMennonites (Old Order)AgricultureWorld War IWorld War IIYear of publication: 1979Historical Period: 1800-1974Export options:Vicarious pioneer: the life of Jacob Y. Shantz
Type: BookAbstract: A biography of the Waterloo County Mennonite who played a significant role in helping Mennonites from Ukraine emigrate to Manitoba in the 1870s. Shantz's life is traced from his farm childhood and ...Keywords: ImmigrationEntrepreneursBiographiesRussian MennonitesUkraineBerlin (Ontario)KitchenerShantz Jacob Y.19th centuryYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1822-1909Export options:Village Pionniere de Black Creek
Type: Film (Motion picture)Abstract: A living museum on the edge of Toronto stands as a memorial to the resourcefulness of the pioneer families who settled there. Many of them were Pennsylvania German farmers who came to Canada in the ...Year of publication: 1966Export options:Wartime violence, trauma, and resilience in the narratives of German Canadians
Type: BookYear of publication: 2022Export options:Waterloo County
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A list of the names of Ontario hamlets, villages and towns that were in use at the time of the 1871 Census of Canada. Some 48 named central places are identified in Waterloo County in 1871, with 22 ...Year of publication: 1990Historical Period: 1870-1871Export options:"We Shall Go Forward with Our Songs into the Fight for Better Life": Identity and Musical Meaning in the History of the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir, 1925-1959.
Type: ThesisAbstract: This project explores the early years of the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir (known initially as the Freiheit Gezang Farein or Freedom Singing Society), a mixed amateur ensemble with roots in the secular ...Year of publication: 2005Historical Period: 1925-59Export options:Welcoming strangers: race, religion, and ethnicity in German Lutheran Ontario and Missouri, 1939-1970
Type: Conference ProceedingsAbstract:This dissertation examines how German-American and German-Canadian Lutherans in St. Louis, Missouri, and Waterloo County, Ontario, constructed their ethnic identities from the outbreak of the ...
Year of publication: 2018Export 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: