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Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:Today, the small chapel is filled with people. Women, unadorned, wearing simple, modest dresses, their long hair tucked under black caps, sit with their daughters on one side. Men and boys sit ...
Year of publication: 2015Export options:Mennonite memories of Pelee Island, Ontario, 1925–1950: Toward a framework for visual narrative inquiry
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:Our research team documented the experiences of Russian Mennonite immigrants who settled on Pelee Island in the province of Ontario, Canada, between 1925 and 1950. We collected more than 200 ...
Keywords:Year of publication: 2013Historical Period: 1925-1950Export 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:Mississauga-Mennonite relations in the upper Grand River valley
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A revisionist account of Aboriginal- settler relations on the Upper Canadian frontier between the 1790s and 1850. The author argues that, while Mennonites and Indians seemed to benefit mutually from ...Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1799-1850Export options:Monocultural Education in a Pluralist Environment: Ashkenazi Curricula in Toronto Jewish Educational Institutions
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Until the 1950's, the Toronto Jewish community was composed almost exclusively of Jews of European origin (Ashkenazim). Subsequently, many Jews from Asia and Africa (Sephardim) have emigrated to ...Keywords: TorontoReligious EducationJewsYear of publication: 1992Export options:More-with-less: timeless recipes and inspiration for simple, joyful eating : a world community cookbook
Type: BookKeywords: Mennonite cookingInternational cookingYear of publication: 2016Export options:Mrs Mary Kaufman
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An obituary of the woman who contributed significantly to community development in Berlin/Kitchener from the 1870s to the 1940s. In addition to her many accomplishments in the area of hospital ...Keywords: BiographiesWomenObituariesAssociations and clubsKaufman Mary Ratz (m. Jacob)GermansKitchenerBerlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1943Historical Period: 1856-1943Export options:Neo-Nazis in Toronto: the Allan Gardens Riot
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Discusses the demographics of Jews in Canada, where in the late 1950's some 13-15% of Canadian Jews were Holocaust survivors, with reference to their role in the larger Jewish community and to the ...Keywords: TorontoJewsAnti-Nazi MovementsYear of publication: 1996Export options:On Community Relations in Ontario in the 1940s
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A personal memoir of a member of the Canadian Jewish Congress that recounts the efforts to gain political support from Premier Leslie Frost for the passage of a fair employment law in Ontario that ...Keywords: BiographiesKayfetz BenJewsLabour LawYear of publication: 1994Export options:Ontario Plain People's youth: 1969 and 2018
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:Draper reflects on the changes in fashion and teaching among the youth of the 'plain people' Markum-Waterloo Mennonite community in which she grew up. She recalls the wedding of his brother in ...
Year of publication: 2019Historical Period: 1969-2018Export options: