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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Cast down, but not forsaken: the Second World War experience and memory of German-Canadian Lutherans in Southwestern Ontario
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract:This study seeks to reassess the notion that German-Canadians in Ontario were “silent victims” during the Second World War by exploring the wartime experience and memory of German-Canadian ...
Year of publication: 2014Export options:German-Canadian folk linguistic perceptions of traditional dialects
Type: ThesisAbstract: Recent work in sociolinguistics suggest that how linguists view language matters very little when it comes to language evaluations and language change. Instead, Preston 1 argues that linguists should ...Year of publication: 2007Export 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:Quitting the master race: a daughter's journey to break the bonds of hate
Type: BookAbstract:How do otherwise decent people become mesmerized by a doctrine of hate? How can its grip be broken? In seeking answers to these pressing questions for our times, Barbara Leimsner confronts the ...
Year of publication: 2023Export options:Sisters or strangers: immigrant, ethnic and racialized women in Canadian history
Type: BookKeywords: Women immigrants Canada HistoryMinority women Canada HistoryRace discrimination Canada HistorySex discrimination against women Canada HistoryYear of publication: 2004Export 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 'Jewish Phase' in the Movement for Racial Equality in Canada
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Following World War II, leaders of Canadian Jewry explained anti-Semitism as an aspect of racial prejudice in general, a problem attributable to pathological individuals who engaged in discrimination ...Keywords: DresdenJewsDiscriminationYear of publication: 2002Export 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: