Germans of Waterloo Region

<p>The scope of this Oral History Project is to collect the life stories of German-speaking immigrants to Canada by conducting biographic interviews with members of the German-Canadian community (immigrants from German-speaking central Europe as well as their descendants) who have ties to Waterloo Region of south-western Ontario Canada. The interviews were video-recorded transcribed and the information gathered presented in two distinct ways. The initial presentation is a book which would contain individual community members' recollections of their immigration and settlement experiences. These accounts are embedded within the larger historical context. The book chapters focus on a variety of migration-related topics such as life before immigration to Canada the immigration experience life after arrival in Canada work experience language and maintaining social and cultural heritage.</p><p>.</p><p>LCSH: Germans--Ontario--Waterloo (Regional Municipality)--History--1938-2011 | LCSH: Germans--Ontario--</p><p>Waterloo (Regional Municipality)--Social conditions--1938-2011 | LCSH: Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality)--</p><p>Emigration and immigration--1938-2011 | LCGFT: Oral histories</p><p><br></p><p>Table of Contents</p><p>Preface: Changing Times!..................................................................................1</p><p>Walter Stechel</p><p>The Oral History Project....................................................................................3</p><p>Elizabeth Wendy Milne and Mathias Schulze</p><p>The History of Waterloo Region........................................................................9</p><p>Elizabeth Wendy Milne and Mathias Schulze</p><p>Mennonites......................................................................................................20</p><p>Christine Kampen Robinson and Nikolai Penner</p><p>They Came from South-eastern Europe.........................................................32</p><p>Lori Straus and Emma Betz</p><p>They Came from East-central Europe .............................................................47</p><p>Stephanie Cooper and Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach</p><p>They Came from Germany and Austria ..........................................................58</p><p>Stefanie Templin and Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach</p><p>Illustrations......................................................................................................69</p><p>Arrival in Canada.............................................................................................87</p><p>Judith Linneweber and Harald Bauder</p><p>Earning a Living ...............................................................................................98</p><p>Ryan Carroll and Grit Liebscher</p><p>Who Are We? .................................................................................................110</p><p>Alissa Melitzer Nataša Nuhanovič and Paul Malone</p><p>How to Build a Canadian Bird with Feathers from Across the Sea.............120</p><p>Melanie Weiß</p><p>Connecting with the Old Country ................................................................134</p><p>Lisa M. Rosen and James M. Skidmore</p><p>Speaking the Language.................................................................................147</p><p>Wes Lindinger and Grit Liebscher</p><p>Family and Children ......................................................................................156</p><p>Friederike Schlein and Linda Warley</p><p>Looking Ahead...............................................................................................165</p><p>Elizabeth Milne and Mathias Schulze</p><p>Bibliography ...................................................................................................168</p><p><br></p>