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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, sometimes known as Oswald or Hoffer Cemetery (CC#4582): German Company Tract lot 52, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions of 83 memorials with translations of the kirkenbuch entries and a history of this vanished church. A name index is also included.Year of publication: 1994Historical Period: 1853-1935Export options:Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Heidelberg (CC#4593): German Company Tract Lot 13, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index of about 450 markers in the cemetery located a little east of Heidelberg. The introduction notes that the cemetery adjoined the original log church erected in 1851 and the ...Year of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1851-1990Export 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:Sandhills Baptist Cemetery (CC#4598): German Company Tract Lot 63, Woolwich Township
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcriptions with index of some 57 markers in the German Baptist churchyard also known as North Woolwich Baptist Church. No other records survive of the church or cemetery.Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyYear of publication: 1991Historical Period: 1860-1900Export options:Schneider, Joseph
Type: Book ChapterAbstract: A biography of the pioneer settler, sawmill owner and community leader, whose property, Lot 17 of the German Company Tract, became the site of Berlin. The authors explain the church and community ...Keywords: Pennsylvania GermansMennonitesIndustriesBiographiesBerlin (Ontario)Waterloo TownshipMuseumsYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1820-1843Export options:Schwartz/Swartz
Type: ReportAbstract: The history of a German Mennonite family who emigrated to Pennsylvania early in the 18th century. Christian Schwartz and his wife Sophia Ruth moved from Pennsylvania and settled near Preston about ...Keywords: GenealogyMennonitesPennsylvania GermansPrestonSchwartz familySchwartz AbrahamSchwartz ChristianSchwartz Sophia Ruth (m. Christian)Ruth familyYear of publication: 1974Historical Period: 1800-1880Export options:Schwind: some ancestors and descendants of Andreas Schwind (1822-1905) and Katharina Miller (1821-1886)
Type: BookAbstract: A history of a German family who settled in the Lexington area in the mid-19th century and later moved north of Elmira. Andreas was a farmer and a stonemason who helped build the North Woolwich ...Keywords: GenealogyFarmersCorrespondenceStonemasonsSchwind familySchwind AndreasSchwind Katharina Miller (m. Andreas)Schwind PeterSchwind Lucinda Strome (m. Peter)Schwind JohnYear of publication: 1988Historical Period: 1840-1988Export options:'See the Vernal Landscape Glowing': the Symbolic Landscape of the Swiss-German Mennonite Settlers in Waterloo County
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: The Swiss-German Mennonites of Waterloo County, in western Ontario, have a long tradition of seeing the landscape as a spiritual metaphor. Early settlement is often seen as the creation of a small, ...Year of publication: 1983Export options:Selected and Annotated Bibliography of German-Canadian Literature and Criticism
Type: Web project pageKeywords: German authorsYear of publication: 2002Export options:Separation or Integration? the Russian Mennonite Immigrant Community in Ontario, 1924-45
Type: ThesisAbstract: How do ethnic groups survive and maintain their identity when transplanted into an alien cultural environment? That question is one of the major issues in the study of ethnicity. Both historians and ...Keywords: Russian MennonitesAcculturationYear of publication: 1986Export options: