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>