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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
Dickie Cemetery, North Dumfries Township, Waterloo County
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A description of a family cemetery, unusual because it was used by both Scots and Pennsylvania Mennonites, including members of the Bechtel, Dickie and Amos families.Year of publication: 1978Historical Period: 1828-1878Export options:Milo Shantz, entrepreneur
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A profile of Milo Shantz, as founder of Hybrid Turkeys Inc., the non-profit foundation Mersynergy, the Mennonite interpretation centre known as The Meeting Place in St Jacobs, The Stone Crock ...Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1953-1994Export options:Mount View Cemetery master index (CC#4495): 80 Blenheim Road, Cambridge (formerly Galt, North Dumfries Township) Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: An index to the cemetery transcriptions that includes a map and a history of the cemetery.Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1867-1995Export options:Old Preston Cemetery master index (CC#6335): 751 Fountain Street North, Lot 26, Beasley's Broken Front Concession, Cambridge (Preston), Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
Type: ReportAbstract: This index is a revision of one done in 1987 by Dona Madill.Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1846-1995Export options:Philipp Lautenschlager's letter
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: Translation of a German letter from a new Canadian resident to his family in Herchenrode, Hesse. The letter describes the passage to North America and the way of life, wages and prices in Waterloo ...Keywords: CorrespondenceOccupationsWomenTaxationCustoms and traditionsGerman languageLautenschlager PhilippWaterloo TownshipYear of publication: 1978Historical Period: 1830-1831Export 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:The black experience in Canada's Queen's Bush
Type: ThesisAbstract: A study of the settlement by escaped slaves and other blacks in the Queen's Bush area to the north and west of Waterloo County, which included in the 1830s and 1840s the northern half of Wellesley ...Keywords: Black peopleChurches BaptistClergyLand developmentLand salesLand surveyorsSchoolsChurches MethodistSettlers BlackMissionariesYear of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1830-1860Export options:Waterloo County councillors: a collective biography
Type: ReportAbstract: Profiles of the 545 men and two women who served on the Waterloo County Council between 1852 and 1972 (when the county was succeeded by the Regional Municipality of Waterloo). The introductory essay ...Keywords: PoliticiansWaterloo CountyAyrBadenBambergBerlin (Ontario)BlairBloomingdaleBranchtonBreslau (Ontario)Year of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1852-1972Export options: