Author: Elizabeth Bloomfield
Publisher: Guelph ON : Caribou Imprints
ISBN: 9780969866046
Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: Joanna Rickert-Hall
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459742923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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The history you don’t know is the most fascinating of all. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Waterloo, Ontario, could be any small Canadian community. Its familiar histories privilege the “great accomplishments” of those who built the institutions we know today: industry, government, and education. But what of those who were marginalized, weird, and wonderful — real people who lived between the boundaries of mainstream existence? Waterloo You Never Knew reveals forgotten and little known tales of a community in transition and reflects on those lives lived in infamy and obscurity, by choice or design. Meet the rumrunner, the ex-slaves, and the cholera victims, the grave-digging doctor, the séance-loving politician, and the sorcery-practising healer. Come inside. See the Waterloo you never knew, revealed.

Author: Ezra E. Eby
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 922

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Category : German American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Author: Ezra E. Eby
Publisher: Kitchener, Ont. : Eldon D. Weber
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: Linda Brown-Kubisch
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770704361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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The Black pioneers (1839-1865) who cleared the land and established the Queen’s Bush settlement in that section of unsurveyed land where present-day Waterloo and Wellington counties meet, near Hawkesville, are the focus of this extensively researched book. Linda Brown-Kubisch’s attention to detail and commitment to these long-neglected settlers re-establishes their place in Ontario history. Set in the context of the early migration of Blacks into Upper Canada, this work is a must for historians and for genealogists involved in tracing family connections with these pioneer inhabitants of the Queen’s Bush. "In the 19th century one of the most important areas of settlement for fugitive American slaves was the Queen’s Bush, then an isolated region in the backwoods of Ontario. Despite much recent attention to African-Canadian history, the Queen’s Bush remains a remote territory for historical scholarship. Linda Brown-Kubisch offers a pioneering entry into that gap. With a jeweller’s eye for the biological subject, Brown-Kubisch introduces the courageous Black adventurers and the hardships they faced in Canada." - James Walker, Professor of History, University of Waterloo, and author of The Black Loyalists (1976, 1992) and "Race," Rights and the Law (1997).

Author: Elizabeth Bloomfield
Publisher: [Guelph, Ont.] : Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 778

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Category : Hocking River Valley (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1492

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Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Johannes Detweiler was born August 24, 1721. He married Anna Reiff November 1, 1744. He was a merchant in Perkiomen Twp. and owned a 200 acre farm near Rahns, Pennsylvania. He died December 9, 1806. Descendants live mainly in Pennsylvania, with some in other locations in the United States and Canada. Includes Alderfer, Benner, Cassel, Detweiler, Detwiler, Hallman, Hansicker, Landis, Moyerl, Ziegler and related families.