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Articles, Novels, etc.
This section includes Articles, Bibliographies, Poetry, Novels, Pamphlets, Serials and Theses. For example, the Vancouver Sun article “Castle Fort Langley: Fritz Ziegler’s home became his castle as he turned a farmhouse into ‘Schloss Klipphaus’” which describes the German-Canadian Fritz Ziegler who started off with a 1912 farmhouse and turned it into a 16th- century German castle. Or a German language pamphlet about Canadian Pacific Railway and Steamships, including a map of routes, pictures of travelers but mostly promotional content to bring Germans to Canada.

 
 

 

Alvo von Alvensleben: I am not ‘an enemy to the people I have lived among’
Janet Mary Nicol
British Columbia

Nicol, J. M. (2008). Alvo von Alvensleben: I am not ‘an enemy to the people I have lived among’. British Columbia History, 41(1), 7.

 

Alvo von Alvensleben, a colorful entrepreneur who contributed to Vancouver’s golden years, was declared an enemy of the Dominion at the outbreak of the First World War. At the time he was in the United States and he reluctantly remained there until his death in 1965, aged 86. Vancouverites showed mixed emotions toward this self-made man who married the local school teacher and helped build the young city but whose loyalties to his homeland were unforgivable.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Anguished memories from the other side; A German-Canadian recalls life in wartime Germany and the flight to another life
Douglas Todd
British Columbia

Todd, D. (2014, Nov 07). Anguished memories from the other side; A German-Canadian recalls life in wartime Germany and the flight to another life. The Vancouver Sun

 

Along with her toy dog, Ortrun had been able to hurriedly pack a family photo album, a blanket, a leather bag of apples from their tree and “a little prayer book from my father – because my father was dead.” Ortrun hadn’t seen her mother for years and her beloved school principal father, Friedrich Schuetze, had been killed during Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia.

 

LINKS: Vancouver Sun

 


 

Aug. 2, 1936: Swastika flags cause flap at annual German-Canadian picnic
Chris Zdeb
Alberta

Zdeb, C. (2014, Aug 02). Aug. 2, 1936: Swastika flags cause flap at annual German-Canadian picnic. Edmonton Journal

 

The German-Canadian National Association, self-described “anti-Nazis,” waded into the controversy by announcing they would hold an opposition picnic on July 26, a week before the reunion association’s event.

 

LINKS: Edmonton Journal

 


 

Auswanderungen aus Österreich: Von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart
Gerda Neyer
Alberta

Neyer, G.. (1995). Auswanderungen aus Österreich: Von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. Demographische Informationen, 60–70.

 

Osterreich ist ein Land, das seit Jahrhunderten durch Wanderungsbewegungen gepragt wird. Das ist das Resumee eines umfangreichen Forschungsprojekts zur osterreichischen Emigration. Die bis ins fruhe 19. Jahrhundert erfolgten Auswanderungen waren keine Massenbewegungen und meist politisch oder religids motiviert. Durch wirtschaftliche Umbruche und Disparitaten ausgelost wanderten zwischen 1876 und 1910 etwa 5 Mio. Menschen (ca. 10% der damaligen Bevol kerung) aus Osterreich-Ungarn aus; der uberwiegende Teil ging nach Obersee. Bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges nahm die Emigration weiter zu und wurde in der Zwischenkriegszeit sogar als politische Massnahme zur Eindammung der Wirtschaftskrise und der Arbeitslosigkeit eingesetzt. Nach dem Burgerkrieg des Jahres 1934 mussten einige Tausend politische Aktivisten das Land verlassen; mit dem Anschluss an Deutschland (1938) setzte die systematische Vertreibung der judischen Bevolkerung ein. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nahm die Auswanderung wieder zu; die wichtigsten Ziellander sind Deutschland und die Schweiz, wahrend die klassischen Immigrationslander (USA, Kanada) seit 1945 einen Ruckgang an oesterreichischen Zuwanderern verzeichnen.

 

LINKS: JStor.org

 


 

Being German in Western Canada: The German-speaking population of the prairie provinces, 1880s to 1980s
Angelika Sauer
Prairie Provinces

Sauer, A. (1999). Being German in Western Canada: The German-speaking population of the prairie provinces, 1880s to 1980s. Journal of the West, 38(3), 49-55.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Canada and an Academic Refugee from Nazi Germany: The Case of Gerhard Herzberg
Lawrence D. Stokes
Western Canada

Stokes, L. D. (1976). Canada and an academic refugee from nazi germany: The case of gerhard herzberg. Canadian Historical Review, 57(2), 150-170. doi:10.3138/CHR-057-02-02

 

Letter excerpts included.

 

LINKS: University of Toronto Press

 


 

Castle Fort Langley: Fritz Ziegler’s home became his castle as he turned a farmhouse into ‘Schloss Klipphaus’
Vancouver Sun
British Columbia

Vancouver Sun(2007, Feb 02). Castle Fort Langley: Fritz Ziegler’s home became his castle as he turned a farmhouse into ‘Schloss Klipphaus’. Vancouver Sun

 

Fritz Ziegler took the old axiom “a man’s home is his castle” to heart. In fact, he made his Fort Langley home into one. Really. Ziegler started off with a 1912 farmhouse, covered the outside in stucco and brick, added a few turrets, and presto!, had a reasonable-facsimile of a 16th- century German castle that he dubbed the Schloss Klipphaus.

 

LINKS: Vancouver Sun

 


 

Contesting the Meanings of Migration: German Women’s Immigration to Canada in the 1950s
Alexander Freund
Western Canada

Freund, A.(2010). Contesting the Meanings of Migration: German Women’s Immigration to Canada in the 1950s. Canadian Ethnic Studies 41(3), 1-26. Canadian Ethnic Studies Association.

 

Twenty-five thousand German women immigrated to Canada as domestic servants between 1947 and 1962. Pushed by West German society that was increasingly hostile to women’s employment and emancipation, the female migrants, in their search for freedom, independence, and adventure, used Canadian immigration schemes that were based on patriarchal and paternalistic understandings of gender and class. The male Canadian bureaucrats who recruited the German women viewed them as cheap and docile labour for the growing middle class and as future citizens and mothers who fit the racial and religious criteria of immigration policy. The article illuminates the clashes between the female migrants and the mostly male bureaucrats over divergent meanings of migration within larger discourses of gender, class, and ethnicity. The article documents the women’s agency in the face of state control and how the women benefited from privileges received as white, Christian, Northwest Europeans. It argues that domestic servant immigration failed as a labour market policy, but, in the short term, supported Canada’s racial demographic policy to keep Canada white and Christian. It further argues that the migrants’ perspectives and actions must be taken into consideration in order to understand government policy and its implementation.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Cowboys und Indianer
Anonymous
Western Canada

Cowboys und Indianer. (1995, Feb 11). The Economist, 334, 1.

 

German tourism to Canada has almost doubled in the past decade to 397,000 visitors a year. Some Indian reserves are recreating traditional villages where German tourists can experience Indian culture.

 

LINKS: The Economist

 


 

Der Verein fur das Deutschtum im Ausland and its observations of Canada prior to World War One
Grant W. Grams
Western Canada

Grams, G. W. (2001). Der Verein fur das Deutschtum im Ausland and its observations of Canada prior to world war one. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 33(2), 117-125.

 

Der Verein fur das Deutschtum im Ausland (The Society for Germans Abroad – VDA) was formed as a private institution in 1881 as the Allgemeiner deutscher Schulverein (General Society of German Schools), but in 1908 was renamed the VDA with the mandate to defend the German language and culture in foreign countries through education. Its main areas of interest were the schools in the border regions of Austria-Hungary and the German settlements of central-eastern Europe.(1) It was the oldest private, non-political organization protecting German culture and heritage abroad from assimilation.(2) Prior to World War I (WWI) some interest was paid to distant lands such as Canada(3) – the VDA had written some articles on Canada’s Deutschtum(4) and established preliminary contacts with the German-Canadian press, e.g. Der Nordwesten, 1907.(5) This article will examine the VDA’s publications and their assessment of Canada and its Deutschtum(6) before the outbreak of WWI. These observations are based on correspondence to the VDA administration and travels in Canada by Alwin Oppel, Robert Streit, and Dr. Hammann-Perleberg – all correspondence took place after the turn of the century.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Der Volksverein Deutsch-Canadischer Katholiken: The Rise and Fall of a German-Catholic Cultural and Immigration Society, 1909-52
Grant W. Grams
Western Canada

Grams, G. (2013). Der Volksverein Deutsch-Canadischer Katholiken: The rise and fall of a German-Catholic cultural and immigration society, 1909-52. The Catholic Historical Review, 99(3), 480-498. doi:10.1353/cat.2013.0163

 

Founded in 1909, Der Volksverein deutsch-canadischer Katholiken (Association of German-Canadian Catholics, or VDCK) was one of the largest German-Canadian religious societies in Canada. The VDCK was involved in German immigration and cultural movements in Canada, with its most productive period from 1909 until the depression. Although the VDCK’s work continued during the 1930s, immigration had ended, and many Canadians were suspicious of German cultural organizations due to the Nazi movement in Europe. Canadian society became increasingly secularized in the postwar era, and a decline in interest in rural settlement led to the VDCK’s dissolution in 1952.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

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Die deutschsprachige Presse Westkanadas: Ihr Inhalt und ihre Sprache
Werner Entz
Western Canada

ENTZ, W. (1967). Die deutschsprachige presse westkanadas: Ihr inhalt und ihre sprache. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 3(1), 37-52. doi:10.3138/sem.v3.1.37

 

 

LINKS: University of Toronto Press

 


 

Early German-Canadian ethnic minority writing
Steven Totosy De Zepetnek
Western Canada

De Zepetnek, S. T. (1995). Early German-Canadian ethnic minority writing. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 27(1), 99.

 

This article on “Early German-Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing” aims at a primary presentation of the previously undisclosed corpus of nineteenth-century German-Canadian texts, written both in German and in English. The corpus includes a wide variety of text types, such as the anecdote, poetry, humorous letters, plays, autobiographical writing, and the novel.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Enemies within our bosom: Nazi Sabotage in Canada
Grant E. Grams
Western Canada

Grams, G. (2012). Enemies within our bosom: Nazi sabotage in Canada. Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 14(3-4)

 

With the encroachment of World War Two (1939-1945) the Canadian government and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) re-examined German espionage in Canada during World War One. At some stages in WW I members of the Auswartiges Amt (German Foreign Office — AA) in the United States (US) organized and encouraged Germans to conduct sabotage activity within North America for the benefit of Germany’s war effort. Due to American neutrality AA members initially found the United States a convenient location to carry out espionage and sabotage.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

EXPLORING MYTHS IN WOMEN’S NARRATIVES: Italian and German Immigrant Women in Vancouver, 1947-1961*
Alexander Freund & Laura Quilici
Western Canada

Freund, A., & Quilici, L. (1996). Exploring myths in women’s narratives: Italian and German immigrant women in Vancouver, 1947-1961. The Oral History Review, 23(2), 19-43. doi:10.1093/ohr/23.2.19

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Exploring our German connection; Prof preserves a vanishing settler story
Brent Wittmeier
Alberta

Wittmeier, B. (2013, Sep 21). Exploring our German connection; prof preserves a vanishing settler story. Edmonton Journal

 

The retired University of Alberta professor of German language and literature has been archiving and collecting records of the province’s Germanic diaspora for 15 years now, a hobby that takes him into libraries, archives and into the folds of century-old German language newspapers. Not only has the deluge of western European immigrants slowed to a trickle, the German language is falling into atrophy, a few remote pockets of Hutterites and Mennonites notwithstanding.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Fact or Fiction? German Writer A.E. Johann, a Winnipeg Communist, and the Depression in the Canadian West, 1931-1932
Lawrence D. Stokes
Manitoba

Stokes, L. D.. (2006). Fact or Fiction? German Writer A.E. Johann, a Winnipeg Communist, and the Depression in the Canadian West, 1931-1932. Labour / Le Travail, 57, 131–142.

 

Between the mid- 1920s and his death in 1996 likely no foreign author writing in a language other than English or French published more about Canada than the Ger man A.E. Johann (the principal nom de plume of Alfred Ernst Johann Wollschlager). Beginning with his diary cum travelogue Mit zwanzig Dollar in den wilden Westen, which recounted his experiences during twelve months in 1927-28 with only twenty dollars to start in his pocket working as a labourer on farms and in logging camps across the prairies and northern British Columbia as well as being unemployed in Vancouver, Johann wrote at least eighteen volumes of fiction…

 

LINKS: JStor.org

 


 

From Dreams of the Worker State to Fighting Hitler: The German-Canadian Left from the Depression to the End of World War II
A. Grenke
Western Canada

Grenke, A.. (1995). From Dreams of the Worker State to Fighting Hitler: The German-Canadian Left from the Depression to the End of World War II. Labour / Le Travail, 35, 65–105.

 

Why did German1 Canadian labour first organize itself into a national movement in the late 1920s? Why was the movement plagued by discord shortly after it was organized, and why were the communists rather than the socialists eventually able to dominate the movement? With the ascendancy of the communist element, German-Canadian workers were integrated into the international labour movement, then dominated by the Soviet Union. How did this affect the movement? What effect did the rise of National Socialism in Germany have on German-Canadian labour? This paper will seek to examine the influence of these forces on the German-Canadian labour movement from the time it was first organized until its demise in 1949.

 

LINKS: JStor.org

 


 

German expat fell in love with the Prairies
Chris Ewing-Weisz
Prairee Provinces

Ewing-Weisz, C. (2012, May 30). German expat fell in love with the prairies. The Globe and Mail

 

With his doctoral studies well begun, Haderlein accepted a sessional lectureship at the University of Saskatchewan. In Saskatoon he met Marianne Vangool, recently arrived from Belgium with her parents and siblings. Like Haderlein, she was the eldest of 11. They were married in 1966, in plenty of time for her to type his thesis in 1970.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

German fans erupt in cheers as their team wins World Cup
Gordon Kent
Alberta

Gordon, K. (2014, Jul 14). German fans erupt in cheers as their team wins world cup. Edmonton Journal

 

Soccer fans packed into Edmonton’s German Canadian Cultural Centre erupted in deafening cheers and table pounding Sunday after Germany scored late to beat Argentina and win the World Cup.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

German immigrants and the Nazi past
Alexander Freund
Western Canada

Freund, A. (2004, Summer). German immigrants and the Nazi past. Inroads, , 106-117.

 

What may have been perhaps the greatest difference between Germans’ experiences in Germany and in North America lay in their encounters and relations with Jewish Americans, Canadians, prewar refugees, and Holocaust survivors. Freund presents the experiences of several immigrants and how memory has shaped intercultural relations.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

German wives happier, but husbands not: Authority of immigrant husband dwindles
The GLobe & Mail
Western Canada

German wives happier, but husbands not. (1966, Sep 17). The Globe and Mail (1936-Current)

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Germanism among Mennonite Brethren immigrants in Canada, 1930-1960: A struggle for ethno-religious integrity
Benjamin W. Redekop
Western Canada

Redekop, B. W. (1992). Germanism among Mennonite Brethren immigrants in Canada, 1930-1960: A struggle for ethno.. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 24(1), 20.

 

Examines the German identity of one group of Mennonites in the thirty years after their arrival in Canada from Soviet Russia. Germanism as an instrument of ethno-religious group integration; Rise of German voelkish ideologies.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Germans from Different Places: Constructing a German Space in Urban Canada
Jennifer Dailey-O’Caina and Grit Liebscher
Western Canada

Dailey-O’Cain, J., & Liebscher, G. (2011). Germans from different places: Constructing a german space in urban canada. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 23(4), 315-345. doi:10.1017/S1470542711000183

 

This paper deals with the role of the distinction between Germans from speech islands (the so-called Volksdeutsche) and Germans from Germany (the so-called Reichsdeutsche) in conceptualizing the German community in urban Canada. First, 64 interviews with members of this community were analyzed for stretches of talk in which that distinction was made relevant. Then, a subset of these was chosen for the analysis presented here. Our analysis of these six excerpts employs both conversation analysis and positioning theory in order to show how participants draw on various aspects of place, ethnicity, and time in constructing a German space in Canada and their own ethnic identities in connection with it.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Germans from Russia in Saskatchewan: An Oral History
Jessica Clark and Thomas D. Isern
Saskatchewan

Clark, J., & Isern, T. D. (2010). Germans from Russia in Saskatchewan: An oral history. The American Review of Canadian Studies, 40(1), 71-85.

 

The Germans from Russia are a prominent settlement group in the rural landscape of Saskatchewan. Perhaps because they came incrementally, by chain migration, rather than by organized group colonization, they compose an ethnic group little noticed by historians. Also, their immediate origins are divided, inasmuch as earlier German-Russian immigrants came directly from Russia, whereas many twentieth-century German-Russian immigrants came to Canada from the United States, mainly from North Dakota and South Dakota. This article offers the first focused, scholarly historical treatment of German-Russian immigration and life in Saskatchewan. Drawing on oral histories collected with the support of the Faculty Research Program of the Canadian Embassy, it focuses particularly on growing up German-Russian on the prairies, positing a German-Russian ethnic identity distinct both from neighbor immigrant groups in Saskatchewan and from origin communities in the United States.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Give them a home where kids can roam; City draws German immigrants; WHY EDMONTON? Series: The New Edmontonians; Edmonton’s newest immigrants and their role in our city’s future
Paula Simons
Alberta

Stories by PAULA SIMONS, Journal,Staff Writer. (1996, Mar 25). Give them a home where kids can roam; city draws german immigrants; WHY EDMONTON? series: The new Edmontonians; Edmonton’s newest immigrants and their role in our city’s future. Edmonton Journal

 

The economic and social pressures of reunification have brought higher taxes and higher unemployment rates, pushing more West-Germans abroad. There are concerns about Germany’s Neo-Nazi movement, and fears that unrest in Eastern Europe could spill into Germany.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Hank Smith fulfilled dream of making country music: German immigrant got Order of Canada for his contribution: Life and Times
Renata D’Aliesio
Alberta

D’Aliesio, R. (2002, Oct 25). Hank smith fulfilled dream of making country music: German immigrant got order of canada for his contribution: Life and times. Edmonton Journal

 

Hank Smith stepped off a steamship in Halifax in 1956 with 50 cents in his pocket, a guitar and suitcase in his hands.He spoke English remarkably well for a 22-year-old born and raised in Germany. He had learned the language by listening to country and western songs, favourites with American troops stationed near his hometown after the Second World War.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Hans Mayer: an atypical Nazi in Alberta
Grant W. Grams
Alberta

Grams, G. W. (2010). Hans Mayer: An atypical Nazi in Alberta. Alberta History, 58(1), 2.

 

Hans Mayer was born on June 25, 1889, in Blaubeuren, Wurttemberg, Germany, and emigrated to Canada in November 1912. A stone mason by profession, he changed his vocation and became a farmer and cattle breeder near Vegreville. Shortly afterwards he returned to Germany, married, and came back in 1913 with his bride Bertha. They eventually had four children–two boys, Fred and Hans Jr., and two girls, Katie and Mina. Mayer won various provincial prizes for dairy cattle and seed grains and became well established as a farmer. He became a Canadian citizen in 1928.

 

LINKS: The Free Library

 


 

HERBERT KRENTZ, RCAF PILOT AND CIVIL SERVANT 1919-2006: Sole survivor of a Halifax bomber shot down in the Second World War was distrusted by his fellow PoWs because of his fluency in German
Frank Manley
Western Canada

Manley, F. (2007, Jan 02). HERBERT KRENTZ, RCAF PILOT AND CIVIL SERVANT 1919-2006. The Globe and Mail (1936-Current)

 

Sixty-two years ago, Herbert Krentz was a little behind schedule when he coaxed his Halifax bomber into the wartime skies above England. Ground crews had been slow to bomb up the plane and, to make matters worse, two fullv loaded 30-ton bombers…

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Is There a Canadian Image in German Literature?
Hermann Boeschenstein
Western Canada

Boeschenstein, H. (1967). Is there a canadian image in german literature? Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 3(1), 1-20. doi:10.3138/sem.v3.1.1

 

To answer this question we must be open minded. If we don’t find a clearly outlined image in German creative writing or in German-Canadian poetry and fiction, we have to search among other forms of expression—journalism, scholarly works or the records set down by immigrants who, though often primitive grammarians, were in close contact with the country. German awareness of Canada arose in the late 18th century. The fortunes of war and more particularly them is fortunes of the Hessian mercenaries who had to help England during the American War of Independence swept a first group of observers into Eastern Canada. One of them was Johann Gottfried Seume (1762-1810), who had been pressed into Hessian service, sold
to the British and shipped to America…

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Items of German-Canadian Folk-Lore
W. J. Wintemberg
Western Canada

Wintemberg, W. J.. (1899). Items of German-Canadian Folk-Lore. The Journal of American Folklore, 12(44), 45–50. http://doi.org/10.2307/533769

 

 

LINKS: JStor.org

 


 

Joachim von Ribbentrop in Canada, 1910-1914: A Note
Robert Lawson
Western Canada

Lawson, R.. (2007). Joachim von Ribbentrop in Canada, 1910-1914: A Note. The International History Review, 29(4), 821–832.

 

 

LINKS: JStor.org

 


 

Kanada: Deutschstudien im Wandel — von neuen Gegebenheiten zu Ansätzen einer Selbsterneuerung.
Anette Guse
Western Canada

Guse, A. (2010). Kanada: Deutschstudien im Wandel — von neuen Gegebenheiten zu Ansätzen einer Selbsterneuerung. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, 43(1), 2-10.

 

Die Germanistik oder German Studies in Kanada zeichnen sich durch Variabilität und starke regionale und institutionelle Unterschiede aus. Die nach jahrelangem Rückgang mittlerweile etwas fluktuierenden Immatrikulationszahlen an Univer-sitäten lassen auf Konsolidierung der Deutsch-programme hoffen; die sich ändernden Programme und die disziplinäre Erweiterung des Faches weisen auf einen Generationswechsel unter Pro-fessoren und auf Erneuerung hin.AnUniversitäten haben Deutschprogramme mit MA und PhD an Profil gewonnen, aber auch Undergraduate-Pro-gramme beeindrucken durch das Engagement und die Kreativität ihres Lehrkörpers in dem Prozess, sich neu zu organisieren und zu definieren. An Schulen ist Deutsch im Westen Kanadas stabil und teilweise sogar ansteigend, in Quebec und den Atlantikprovinzen hingegen fast verschwunden.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Meteoric Career of Alvo von Alvensleben Reached Beyond Vancouver
Janet Nicol
British Columbia

Nicol, J. (2008). Meteoric career of Alvo von Alvensleben reached beyond Vancouver. British Columbia History, 41(3), 4-5.

 

“At all events, his meteoric career made a chapter of life which Vancouverites will never tire of discussing.”
So wrote an unnamed American scribe in a profile of Alvo von Alvensleben, appearing in Deeds of Heroism and Bravery, in 1920. As predicted, more than eighty years later, stories of Alvensleben’s “meteoric” life and times continue to be told. But this German emigre’s highrolling reputation reached well beyond the pioneer port. Alvensleben spread German money around, investing on Vancouver Island and northern BC, as well as Alberta and Washington State.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

National Designation for William Hespeler.
Manitoba History
Manitoba

National Designation for William Hespeler. (2007). Manitoba History, (54), 28-29.

 

The article focuses on William Hespeler, an entrepreneur, immigration official, and politician in Canada, who died in 1921. It is reported that as Commissioner of Immigration and Agriculture for Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, Hespeler hired about 7,000 Mennonites in Manitoba during 1874-1880. On February 19, 2007, at Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada unveiled a plaque in honor of Hespeler.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Packed German Canadian Club celebrates World Cup victory
Wade Paterson
British Columbia

Paterson, W. (2014, Jul 14). Packed German Canadian club celebrates world cup victory. Kelowna Capital News

 

Club president Inge Hoffmann said the mood was “nail-biting at first,” before Mario Gotze scored in extra time, leading Germany to a 1-0 victory over Argentina. “Everybody jumped and cheered and waved and hollered,” said Hoffmann. “Soccer is growing in Canada and it’s growing in Kelownait’s a wonderful team sport.”

 

LINKS: Kelowna Capital News

 


 

Pre-World War I Saskatchewan German Catholic thought concerning the perpetuation of their language and religion
Clinton O. White
Saskatchewan

White, C. O. (1994). Pre-World war I Saskatchewan German catholic thought concerning the perpetuation of their language and religion. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 26(2), 15-45.

 

The paper is divided into three parts, the purpose of each being to set out the position of members of St. Peter’s German Catholic community on the use of parochial schools to perpetuate their language. Their views on that subject having been established, their thoughts on religious instruction in schools can be laid out with relative ease.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Representing “New Canadians”: Competing Narratives about Recent German Immigrants to Manitoba.
Alexander Freund
Manitoba

Freund, A. (2012). Representing “New Canadians”: Competing Narratives about Recent German Immigrants to Manitoba. Journal Of Mennonite Studies, 30339-361.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Sankt Raphaels Verein and German-Catholic Emigration to Canada from 1919 to 1939
Grant W. Grams
Western Canada

Grams, G. W. (2005). Sankt Raphaels Verein and German-Catholic emigration to Canada from 1919 to 1939. The Catholic Historical Review, 91(1), 83-104. doi:10.1353/cat.2005.0105

 

By the 1860’s members of the Catholic Church administration had observed German emigrants suffering in domestic harbors and paying exorbitant prices for basic goods. They became concerned about the health and welfare of these emigrants culminating in 1871 with the founding of Sankt Raphaels Verein zum Schutze katholischer deutscher Auswanderer (Saint Raphael’s Society for the Protection of German-Catholic Emigrants—SRS). By the end of World War I this organization was firmly established in Germany.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Silent or Silenced Co-Founders of Canada? Reflections on the History of German Canadians
Gerhard P. Bassler
Western Canada

Bassler, G. P. (1990). Silent or silenced co-founders of Canada? reflections on the history of German Canadians. Canadian Ethnic Studies = Etudes Ethniques Au Canada, 22(1), 38.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany
Don DeVoretz, Holger Hinte, Christiane Werner
Western Canada

DeVoretz, Don; Hinte, Holger; Werner, Christine (2000). Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis. Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany.

 

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the linguistic debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. Canada, in effect, does not base immigrant entry or citizenship on knowledge of either of its official languages. Acquisition of a second
language in Canada is voluntary and largely dependent on labour market incentives. Which system of second language acquisition — the statist German system or the laissez faire Canadian model — provides the best milieu for immigrant second language acquisition? This paper makes a comparative review of Canadian and German legal and educational programs to answer this question.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

T.O.F. Herzer and his work with German-speaking immigration to Canada
Grant W. Grams
Western Canada

Grams, G. W. (2006). T.O.F. Herzer and his work with German-speaking immigration to Canada. Journal Of The Canadian Church Historical Society, 48(2), 161-183.

 

Dr. Reverend Traugott Otto Francis Herzer was born in Plymouth, Wisconsin on July 24, 1887. Although an American he spent the majority of his adult life in Canada. He died in Winnipeg, Manitoba on October 7, 1958. Throughout his life Herzer exercised humility and a desire to help those less fortunate.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The Canadian Government’s Attitude Towards Germans and German Canadians in World War Two
Robert H. Keyserlingk
Western Canada

Keyserlingk, R. H. (1984). The Canadian government’s attitude towards Germans and German Canadians in world war two. Canadian Ethnic Studies = Etudes Ethniques Au Canada, 16(1), 16.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The Deportation of German Nationals from Canada, 1919 to 1939
Grant W. Grams
Western Canada

Grams, G. W. (2010). The deportation of german nationals from canada, 1919 to 1939. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 11(2)

 

This article examines the repatriation of German nationals from Canada between the two World Wars. After World War I, Germans living in Canada were suspicious; this sentiment lingered into the 1930s. During the 1920s, deportations from Canada allowed the government to rid themselves of unwanted residents.During the Great Depression, poor, unemployed immigrants became redundant which encouraged the deportation process. Unfortunately, deportations punished the unlucky and needy; many had experienced hardships in Canada, a country that was unwilling to aid immigrants.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The German colony at Leduc
Amy H. Keane
Alberta

Keane, A. H. (2002). The german colony at leduc. Alberta History, 50(4), 24.

 

This article examines the repatriation of German nationals from Canada between the two World Wars. After World War I, Germans living in Canada were suspicious; this sentiment lingered into the 1930s. During the 1920s, deportations from Canada allowed the government to rid themselves of unwanted residents.During the Great Depression, poor, unemployed immigrants became redundant which encouraged the deportation process. Unfortunately, deportations punished the unlucky and needy; many had experienced hardships in Canada, a country that was unwilling to aid immigrants.

 

LINKS: The Free Library

 


 

The German Community of Winnipeg and the English-Canadian Response to World War I
Art Grenke
Manitoba

Grenke, A. (1988). The German community of Winnipeg and the English-Canadian response to world war I. Canadian Ethnic Studies = Etudes Ethniques Au Canada, 20(1), 21.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The German-Language Diasporas: A Survey, Critique, and Interpretation
Dirk Hoerder
Western Canada

Hoerder, D. (2002). The German-language diasporas: A survey, critique, and interpretation. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 11(1), 7-44. doi:10.1353/dsp.2011.0035

 

German-language emigrants and ethnics have not usually been conceptualized as a diaspora. Patterns of migration and of later mainly German-language1—scholarly discourse combined to create two distinct images of the Eastern European and North American regions as separate major areas of settlement. A third image places smaller colonies on other continents, of which, for example, those in South America and Australia have been investigated, while those in London and Paris have been neglected.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The Huns and Vandals are thundering at our gates and within our gates: Faces of the Enemy
in Saskatoon during the Second World War

Brendan Kelly
Saskatchewan

Kelly, B. (2011). “The Huns and Vandals are thundering at our gates and within our gates”: Faces of the enemy in Saskatoon during the second world war. Urban History Review, 39(2), 3-16. doi:10.7202/1003458ar

 

Although at a safe remove from combat during the Second World War, many citizens of Saskatoon exhibited a strange sense of embattlement. During these years fearful residents believed the city to be under threat by a succession of enemies, including German Canadians, Hitler’s Wehrmacht, Japanese Canadians, communists, and the provincial Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Which foe occupied the spotlight shifted with time and the changing fortunes of war. Come the summer of 1944, enemies that had seemed so real during the early years of the war had all but vanished. By D-Day and the June provincial election, Saskatonians had overcome their wartime paranoia and optimistically turned their attention towards the more pressing needs of domestic reconstruction.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The Immigrant Church as an Urban Service Hub
David Ley
British Columbia

Ley, D. (2008). The immigrant church as an urban service hub. Urban Studies, 45(10), 2057-2074. doi:10.1177/0042098008094873

 

This paper draws from interviews conducted with leaders of 46 immigrant Christian churches in Vancouver. The congregations comprise newcomers from Korea, ethnic Chinese who are primarily recent immigrants and an older post-1945 German migration. The churches are identified as a hub in which relations of trust and compatibility generate bonding social capital; from this base, a wide range of personal and social services is provided, significantly aiding co-ethnic members to adapt to their new conditions. In a neo-liberal era, the state is facilitating such activities as part of a policy of contracting-out its own former in-house functions. The capacity of the immigrant church to serve both its own members and adherents and also a broader expanded constituency beyond its co-ethnic clients is important. The paper examines the activities of some of the churches in this transition from bonding to bridging social capital and the challenges that they confront.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The Kurtenbach Letters: An Autobiographical Description of Pioneer Life in Saskatchewan Around the Turn of the Century
Karl A Peter and Franziska Peter
Saskatchewan

Peter, K. A., & Peter, F. (1979). The kurtenbach letters: An autobiographical description of pioneer life in saskatchewan around the turn of the century. Canadian Ethnic Studies = Etudes Ethniques Au Canada, 11(2), 89.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

“This terrible Karl May” in the Wild West, Kanada im Faltboot.
Grant W. Grams
Western Canada

Grams, G. W. (2008). “this terrible Karl May” in the wild west, Kanada im Faltboot. Alberta History, 56(1), 10.

 

Carl Schwerla was a German journalist who visited Canada in 1929 where his goals were to travel through parts of the West, reporting on his experiences, and at the same time investigating the state of German emigrants. This would enable him to collect material for future publications. One result was the book Kanada im Faltboot (Canada in a Collapsible Boat) published the year after his return.

 

LINKS: The Free Library

 


 

Transnationalizing Home in Winnipeg: Refugees’ Stories of the Places Between the “Here-and-There”
Alexander Freund
Manitoba

Freund, A. (2015). Transnationalizing home in winnipeg: Refugees’ stories of the places between the “here-and-there”. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 47(1), 61-86.

 

In this context of the dominance of national history and migration historians’ attempts to transnationalize the writing of history, documenting refugees’ lives is an attempt to tell a counter narrative that undermines the story of nationalist triumph by exposing the costs of nationalism. In the writing of history, the notion of home as a story of belonging is a central concept, but also contested terrain.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

UNCOVERING THE ENEMY WITHIN: British Columbians and the German Menace
Peter Moogk
British Columbia

Moogk, P. (2014). UNCOVERING THE ENEMY WITHIN: British Columbians and the German menace. BC Studies, (182), 45-72,251.

 

The Esquimalt dry dock, the Bamfield trans-Pacific cable station, the Point Grey radio station, railway bridges, explosives warehouses, power houses, wharves for seagoing vessels, and the legislative buildings were protected. The property of fugitives could be confiscated.10 Notices in English were placed in BC newspapers directing citizens of the enemy powers to register with the local police.\n An investigating committee reached “the unanimous conclusion that the charges against Mr. Barnes were not proven” and the Board of Governors accepted its report “unanimously.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Vancouver’s man of the streets
Alexandra Gil
Western Canada

Gill, A. (2007, Jan 27). Vancouver’s man of the streets. The Globe and Mail.

 

He is referring to the city-council ordinances of the 1970s that limited the kinds of signage businesses could use. For [Fred Herzog], it was the beginning of the end of the “disordered vitality” that had inspired his collection of some 100,000 streetscapes. “Now, it’s not really a convivial city,” he continues. “It has been enriched in other ways, but not for the people who want to enjoy the street. Not for people like me.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Victoria celebrates 150 years of brewing
Rebecca Aldous
British Columbia

Aldous, R. (2008, Nov 27). Victoria celebrates 150 years of brewing. Victoria News.

 

The German immigrant set up a brewery in a small log building near Swan Lake, bought surplus grain from the Puget Sound Agricultural Company – whose supply was mounting with the ceasing of orders from Russia due to the Crimean war – and grew hops in his backyard. The commercial brewery was the first one west of the Great Lakes and started a strong beer culture in Victoria, concluded Greg Evans, Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) member.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Was Eckhardt Kastendieck Saskatchewan’s most active Nazi?
Grant W. Grams
Saskatchewan

Grams, G. (2007). Was Eckhardt Kastendieck Saskatchewan’s most active Nazi?. Saskatchewan History, (1), 4.

 

 

LINKS: University of Alberta

 

A bibliography of the Germans in British Columbia / compiled, with occasional notations
Peter G. Liddell
British Columbia

Liddell, P. G., & Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. (1982). A bibliography of the germans in british columbia. Vancouver: Cautg.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Annotated bibliography of the cultural history of the German-speaking community in Alberta: 1882-2000 : a project of the German-Canadian Association of Alberta
Manfred Prokop
Alberta

Prokop, M., University of Alberta, & German-Canadian Association of Alberta. (2000). Annotated bibliography of the cultural history of the German-speaking community in Alberta: 1882-2000: A project of the German-Canadian association of alberta. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta.

 

During the 1970s and 1980s, both the Federal Government of Canada and the Provincial Government of Alberta encouraged Canada’s ethnocultural groups to maintain, document and develop their cultural heritage, and they provided funding for this purpose. Like many other groups, the German-Canadian Association of Alberta decided to establish an inventory of German-Canadiana in Alberta’s libraries, archives and private collections. This inventory was to make it possible for members of the several German-speaking groups and others, for scholars as well as teachers, to access information about the heritage of speakers of German in the province in a single, central database.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Alberta Saskatchewan Mennonite and Hutterite bibliography : 1962-1981
Victor G. Wiebe
Alberta and Saskatchewan

Wiebe, V. G. (1981). Alberta Saskatchewan Mennonite and Hutterite bibliography, 1962-1981.

 

 

LINKS: University of Alberta

 


 

Peel’s Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953
Bruce Braden Peel
Prairie Provinces

Peel, B. B., Ingles, E. B., Distad, N. M., eBrary (Canadian Publishers Collection), Scholars Portal (Canadian Publishers Collection), & desLibris – Books. (2003). Peel’s bibliography of the Canadian prairies to 1953 (Rev. and enl. ed.). Buffalo;Toronto;: University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442678323

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The German language press of the Americas, 1732-1968; history and bibliography. Volume 2: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, USA (Addenda), Uruguay, Venezuela
Karl J. R. Arndt and May E. Olson
Western Canada

Arndt, K. J. R., & Olson, M. E. (1973). The German language press of the Americas, 1732-1968: History and bibliography. volume 2: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, USA (addenda), Uruguay, Venezuela. Pullach/München: Verlag Dokumentation.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Ethnic and native Canadian literature : a bibliography
John Miska
Western Canada

Miska, J. P. (1990). Ethnic and Native Canadian literature: A bibliography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The Germans from Russia in the United States and Canada : a bibliographic handbook
Steven M. Benjamin and Renate L. Benjamin
Western Canada

Benjamin, S. M., & Benjamin, R. L. (1985). The Germans from Russia in the united states and Canada: A bibliographic handbook. Radford, VA: Intercultural Communications Center, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Radford University.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Western Canada since 1870 : a select bibliography and guide
Alan F.J. Artibise
Western Canada

Artibise, A. F. J. (1978). Western Canada since 1870: A select bibliography and guide. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Literary Works by German-Speaking Canadians and Their Critical Appraisal: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography with an Introduction
Steven Tötösy de Zepetne
Western Canada

Tötösy de Zepetnek, S. (1989). Literary works by german-speaking canadians and their critical appraisal: A selected and annotated bibliography with an introduction. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne De Litterature Comparee, 16(3-4), 669-686.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

University Research on German-Canadians: A Preliminary Check List of Dissertations and Theses

Clive H. Cardinal and Alexander Malycky
Western Canada

Cardinal, C. H., & MALYCKY, A. (1969). University research on german-canadians: A preliminary check list of dissertations and theses. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 1(1), 7.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

University Research on German-Canadians: First Supplement
Clive H. Cardinal and Alexander Malycky
Western Canada

Cardinal, C. H., & Malycky, A. (1970). University research on German-Canadians: First supplement. Canadian Ethnic Studies = Etudes Ethniques Au Canada, 2(1), 45.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 

Ahornblätter : deutsche Dichtung aus Kanada
Heinz Kloss
Western Canada

Kloss, H. (1961). Ahornblätter: Deutsche dichtung aus kanada. Würzburg: Holzner-Verlag.

 

Poems written by German immigrants living in Canada.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Ausgewählte Werke : Lyrik und Prosa / Else Seel
Published by Rodney T.K. Symington
British Columbia

Seel, E., Symington, R., & German-Canadian Historical Association. (1979). Ausgewählte werke: Lyrik und prosa. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association.

 

German & English poems and stories by Else Seel.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Das Schweigen dieser unendlichen Räume : eine Erzählung
Ulrich Schaffer
British Columbia

Schaffer, U. (1982). Das Schweigen dieser unendlichen Räume: Eine Erzählung (2. Aufl. — ed.). Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus Verlag.

 

The author emigrated from Germany to Vancouver, BC when he was 11 years old in 1953. He lives now in Gibsons, BC.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Die vier Jahreszeiten : Gedichte und Lieder
Franz Przybilski
Manitoba

Przybilski, F. (1984). Die vier Jahreszeiten: Gedichte und Lieder. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association.

 

Author emigrated to Canada in 1956 and since lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Haus im Urwald : deutsch-kanadische Gedichte
Else Seel
British Columbia

Seel, E. (. (1956). Haus im urwald: Deutsch-kanadische gedichte. Regina, Sask: Western Printers.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Saskatchewan klingt gut : Gedichte aus der Prärie
Konrad Haderlein
Saskatchewan

Haderlein, K. (1986). Saskatchewan klingt gut: Gedichte aus der Prärie. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association.

 

Haderlein left Europe in 1959 and came to Edmonton, Alberta where he was a German Studies professor.

 

LINKS: UBC

 

… Irgendwo drüben in Kanada : Ein abenteuerl. Erlebnisbericht
Lothar Matthaei
Western Canada

Matthaei, Lothar (1942) Irgendwo drüben in Kanada: ein abenteuerlicher Erlebnisbericht. Nürnberg, Germany: Willmy.

 

Adventure stories, mostly in Alberta.

 

LINKS: Simon Fraser University

 


 

Abenteuer in Kanada : Mit Travellercheques zum Cottagetraum
Wolfgang Deger
Western Canada

Deger, Wolfgang (2016) Abenteuer in Kanada : Mit Travellercheques zum Cottagetraum. Norderstedt : Books on Demand

 

Ein Grossteil der Verwandschaft meiner Frau Inge lebt in Kanada. Sie sind in den fuenfziger Jahren ausgewandert. 1989 haben wir uns entschlossen den naechsten Urlaub in Kanada zu verbringen. Bei einer unserer naechsten Besuche haben wir uns ein Cottage an der Georgian Bay gekauft. Seitdem erleben wir in Kanada die ungewoehnlichsten Geschichten und Abenteuer.

 

LINKS: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

 


 

A Chest Full of Hope
Gerti Herrlich Fuss
British Columbia

Fuss, Gerti H. (2011) A Chest Full of Hope. North Saanich, B.C. : G. Fus

 

Gerti Herrlich was twenty years old in 1960 when she left her family and friends in Germany to follow her fiancé Karl Fuss to Australia. She packed her belongings into a sturdy wooden crate and carefully painted shipping instructions on the outside. For over fifty years, this “chest full of hope” has been used to store Gerti and Karl’s precious belongings, including guest books signed by over 18,000 visitors who stayed with them at The Old Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast on Saltspring Island. This funny and touching memoir contains over 120 recipes, including some from The Old Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast.

 

LINKS: Vancouver Island Regional Library

 


 

Auf wilden Pfaden im neuen kanada : Erlebnisse unter Farmern, Trappern, Vagabunden : und Verbrechern des kanadischen Westens
Armin Otto Huber
Western Canada

Huber, Armin Otto, 1904- (n.d.). Auf wilden Pfaden im neuen kanada : Erlebnisse unter Farmern, Trappern, Vagabunden : und Verbrechern des kanadischen Westens.

 

Author was in Canada for several years but returned to Germany. As first-person narrator, he tells realistic, not glorifying adventure stories he claims to have experienced. The introduction states that he hates and loves the adventures he experienced and it is more fun to read about it than actually experiencing it.

 

LINKS: Multicultural Canada

 


 

Bei roten und weissen Abenteuern in Kanada : mit acht Bildern nach Pastellzeichnungen des Verfassers
Armin Otto Huber
Western Canada

Huber, Armin O. (n.d.). Bei roten und weissen Abenteuern in Kanada : mit acht Bildern nach Pastellzeichnungen des Verfassers.

 


 

LINKS: Multicultural Canada

 


 

Das Blockhaus am Schlangensee : Ein deutsches Schicksal in Kanada
Ferdinand Wilkes
Western Canada

Wilkes, Ferdinand (1937). Das Blockhaus am Schlangensee : Ein deutsches Schicksal in Kanada. Christl. Verl. Anst.

 

 

LINKS: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

 


 

Der Rucksackroman
Hermann Böschenstein
Western Canada

Boeschenstein, H., & Gallati, E. (2004). Der rucksackroman. Bern: P. Lang.

 

Böschenstein versucht in seinem vierten und letzten Roman, den er kurz vor seinem Tod beendete, die Summe aus seinem Leben als Kanada-Schweizer, als akademischer Lehrer und als Dichter zu ziehen: Seine Auswanderung nach Kanada wird zum Schritt Gustav Baumanns auf dem Weg zur Humanität.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Der Trapper vom Ghostriver : ein Leben im kanad. Paradies d. Jäger u. Fischer
Johannes K. Hogrebe
Prairie Provinces

Hogrebe, J. K. (1982). Der trapper vom Ghostriver: Ein Leben im kanadischen Paradies der Jag̈er und Fischer (5. Aufl. ed.). Hamburg: P. Parey.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Ein Mann kehrt heim aus Kanada
Alfred Wilhelm Resch
Western Canada

Resch, Alfred W. (1952). Ein Mann kehrt heim aus Kanada.Hamburg-Wandsbek : Kelter.

 

 

LINKS: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

 


 

Henrik als Trapper : Erzählung aus Kanada
Estrid Ott
Western Canada

Ott, Estrid (1955). Henrik als Trapper : Erzählung aus Kanada. Rüschlikon – Zürich : A. Müller.

 

 

LINKS: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

 


 

In kanadischer Wildnis; Trapper- und Farmerleben. Mit Kapitelleisten und zwei farbigen Tafeln von Karl Wagner
Max Otto
Alberta

Otto, M. (1924). In kanadischer Wildnis: Trapper- und Farmerleben. Mit Kapitelleisten und zwei farbigen Tafeln von Karl Wagner. Berlin: Paul Parey.

 

Author lived for nine years in northern Alberta in the wilderness. (1912-1921). At the end, he is accused espionage and leaves the country to return to Germany. Strongly contemporary, racist language, nationalistic, very thorough description of the author’s life in Alberta. Made up story as he actually never lived up north but helped farmers in Southern Alberta

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Kanada im Faltboot
Carl Borro Schwerla
Western Canada

Schwerla, C. B. (1930). Kanada im Faltboot. Berlin: A. Scherl G.m.b.H.

 

Nicht zuletzt von Karl May inspiriert packte den Autor die Wanderlust und er beschloss, nach zahlreichen Faltbootfahrten in der Heimat, nun auch Kanada und seine Wildflüsse zu “erobern”.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Kanadische Jahreszeiten : Rückblick auf eine Auswanderung
Karl Wilhelm Loggen
Western Canada

Loggen, K. W. (1982). Kanadische Jahreszeiten: Rückblick auf eine Auswanderung. Heusenstamm [Germany]: Orion-Heimreiter-Verlag.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Renovating heaven : a novel in triptych
Andreas Schroeder
British Columbia

Schroeder, A. (2008). Renovating heaven: A novel in triptych. Lantzville, B.C: Oolichan Books.

 

Leaving Germany with little more than their 16th century Anabaptist faith and lifestyle to guide them, Schroeder’s family settles on a small Fraser Valley farm in British Columbia and proceeds to try making sense of the perplexing mores and values of “The English” who surround them. The family finds solace, but not much else, within the local Mennonite congregation founded by Schroeder’s grandfather, every single one of whose sixty-two members is related to Schroeder on his mother’s side.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The horseman’s graves
Jacqueline Baker
British Columbia

Baker, J. (2007). The horseman’s graves. Toronto: HarperCollins.

 

This is a novel about immigrant German families in the early 1900s in the Prairies. We see the practical-mindedness and fortitude, the superstitions and ghosts brought from the old country to the new.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Wilderness beginnings
Rose Hertel Falkenhagen
British Columbia

Falkenhagen, R. (1997). Wilderness beginnings. Prince George, B.C: Caitlin Press.

 

Born into a comfortable middle-class German family, Paul Hertel left Germany in 1929 for a taste of adventure in the Canadian wilds before he was to settle down to run the family business. For the next five years he had the ultimate adventure. He rode the rails across Canada, homesteaded north of Burns Lake, picked fruit in the Okanagan and punched cattle in the Nicola Valley. Just after the Nazis won their first election, Paul returned to Germany.

 

LINKS: UBC

 

Auskunft über die Dominion Canada für deutsche Ansiedler
Dept. of Agriculture Canada
Western Canada

Canada. Dept. of Agriculture, & Canadian Libraries. (1882). Auskunft über die dominion Canada für deutsche Ansiedler Ottawa : [s.n.].

 

Information on the Dominion of Canada for German Immigrants.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Canadian Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Western Canada

Canadian Pacific (1912). Canadian Pacific : [s.n.].

 

A German language pamphlet about Canadian Pacific Railway and Steamships, including a map of routes, pictures of travelers but mostly promotional content to bring Germans to Canada.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Canadian Pacific Nach Canada Dritter Klasse
Canadian Pacific
Western Canada

Canadian Pacific Nach Canada Dritter Klasse (1923). Canadian Pacific : [s.n.]

 

A German-language pamphlet about sailing to Canada in third class.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Die Dominion Canada ein Wegweiser für deutsche Einwanderer nach Canada.
Unknown
Western Canada

Die Dominion Canada: Ein Wegweiser für deutsche Einwanderer nach Canada (1876). Ottawa:

 

The Dominion of Canada: a guide for German Immigrants to Canada.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Eisenbahnreisen in Kanada
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Western Canada

Canadian Pacific Railway Company (1930). Eisenbahnreisen in Kanada. England : Canadian Pacific

 

Pamphlet advertising the Canadian Pacific Railway. German edition.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

In commemoration of the semi-centennial of the Moravian congregation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1902-1952

William Kroening
Western Canada

Kroening, William (1952). In commemoration of the semi-centennial of the Moravian congregation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1902-1952.

 

Thorough historical description. Includes information on Germans from Moravia.

 

LINKS: Multicultural Canada

 


 

Mittheilungen über Manitoba und das Nordwest Territorium (Nordamerika) für Capitalisten, Landwirthe, Landwerker, gewöhnliche Arbeiter, Dienstboten, etc. unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der deutschen Ansiedler.

Unknown
Manitoba

Canadian Libraries. (1883). Mittheilungen über Manitoba und das Nordwest Territorium (Nordamerika): Für Capitalisten, Landwirthe, Handwerker, gewöhnliche Arbeiter, Dienstboten, etc. Liverpool : Turner und Dunnett.

 

Information about Manitoba and the North-West Terrotories (North-America): for capitalists, farmers, craftsmen, ordinary workers, servants in perspective of German immigrants.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Montrose und Montcalm, Hamburg nach Kanada und U.S.A.

Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited
Western Canada

Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited (1930). Montrose und Montcalm, Hamburg nach Kanada und U.S.A. Great Britain : Canadian Pacific.

 

Pamphlet advertising Canadian Pacific Steamships. German edition.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The crisis in B.C.: an appeal for investigation

Moses B. Cotsworth
Western Canada

Ministerial Union of the Lower Mainland of B.C. (1915). The crisis in B.C: An appeal for investigation. Vancouver: Ministerial Union of the Lower Mainland of B.C.

 

“Pamphlet prepared by Moses B. Cotsworth, charging the Conservative government with corruption, partisanship and exploitation of public lands including a German syndicate with Alvo von Alvensleben.

 

LINKS: UBC

 

Canadiana Germanica. A journal for German-Canadian Studies and News Bulletin of the German-Canadian historical association and the historical society of Mecklenburg Upper Canada Inc.

Karin R. Fuerttler and Hartmut Froeschle
Western Canada

Fuerttler, Karin R. & Froeschle, Hartmut (1984). Canadiana Germanica. A journal of Germanic studies. Toronto : German-Canadian Historical Association : Historical Society of Mecklenburg Upper Canada, 1984.

 


 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

German-Canadian yearbook

Hartmut Froeschle
Western Canada

Fröschle, H., & Historical Society of Mecklenburg Upper Canada.German-canadian yearbook. German-Canadian Yearbook.

 

All volumes have stories of German immigrants. For example Volume XVIII p. 224 Kurt H. Schleiermacher’s poem “Daemmerung” or Gertrud Neuner-Lowe “Einwanderung 1948”, prose Schleiermacher “Eine aufregende Nacht in den Waeldern von Kanada”. Also review of diaries etc.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Historic German Newspapers Online

Ernest Thode
Western Canada

Thode, Ernest (2014).Historic German Newspapers Online. Baltimore, MD :, Genealogical Pub. Co., 2014..

 


 

LINKS: Calgary Public Library

 


 

Sudeten-Bote

Various
Western Canada

Various (1992). Sudeten-Bote . Pouce Coupe, B.C. : Westkanadische Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Sudetendeutschen, -1992.

 

The Sudeten clubs in Hamilton (1941), Montreal (1952), Tomslake, British Columbia (1959) and Edmonton (1960), were found by the refugees of 1939. They and the post-World War II expelles agreed in 1957 to form a joint umbrella organization, the Central Alliance of Sudeten German Organizations in Canada (Zentralverband sudetendeutscher Organisationen in Kanada). It maintained ties with both the Seliger-Gemeinde, an international union of Sudeten German social democratic exiles, and the more nationalist Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft in Germany.

 

LINKS: Vancouver Public Library

 


 

Winnipeger Sonntagsbote der Deutschen Baptisten-Kirche

Various
Manitoba

Various (1928). Winnipeger Sonntagsbote der Deutschen Baptisten-Kirche. Winnipeg [, Kanada] : Winnipeger Sonntagsbote .

 

Nachgewiesen 1928,3; damit Ersch. eingest.

 

LINKS: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

 


 

Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien

Various
Western Canada

Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien. (1992). Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien. Published by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh. Augsburg : AV-Verlag Franz Fischer, 1992-

 

The Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien (ZKS) is the journal of the Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien/Association for Canadian Studies. It was founded in 1981 and appears semi-annually. In accordance with Canadian Studies, it follows an inter- and multidisciplinary approach and adheres to a trilingual conception (German, English, French).

 

LINKS: UBC

 

(Re-)Imagining Germanness: Victoria’s Germans and the 1915 Lusitania Riot

Arthur Tyler Richards
British Columbia

Richards, A. T. (2012). (Re-)imagining Germanness: Victoria’s Germans and the 1915 Lusitania riot

 


 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

A contribution to the study of voelkische Ideologie and Deutschtumsarbeit among the Germans in Canada during the inter-war period

Gerald Gordon Ross
Western Canada

Ross, G. G. (1997). A contribution to the study of voelkische ideologie and deutschtumsarbeit among the germans in canada during the inter-war period.

 


 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Acknowledgement or avoidance? German-Canadian immigrant women’s memories of national socialism

Crystal Leochko
Western Canada

Leochko, C. (2009). Acknowledgement or avoidance? German-Canadian immigrant women’s memories of national socialism

 


 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

AN ANALYSIS OF GERMANISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM IN THE IMMIGRANT NEWSPAPER OF A CANADIAN MINORITY GROUP, THE MENNONITES, IN THE 1930S

Frank Henry Epp
Western Canada

 


 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

An ethnographic study of ethnicity in German immigrants’ homes

Kornelia Jutta Doris Nelle
Western Canada

Nelle, K. J. D. (1993). An ethnographic study of ethnicity in German immigrants’ homes.

 

“This thesis discusses ethnicity in the homes of post-World War II German immigrants in Edmonton. Four aspects of ethnicity were selected for the study: Values, Language, Material Items, and Food styles.”

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Containerdeutsche: Contemporary German immigration to Australia and Canada

Ulrike Radermacher
Western Canada

Radermacher, U. (1991). Containerdeutsche: Contemporary German immigration to Australia and Canada

 

The study examines the migration narratives of a sample of thirty Germans who have migrated, or are at some stage of the process of migrating, to either Australia or Canada over the last twenty-five years. The specific analysis and interpretation of these accounts are based on the hermeneutic philosophy of meaning and discourse.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Ein Privileg für wenige : die deutschsprachige Migration nach Kanada im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus

Annette Puckhaber
Western Canada

Puckhaber, A. (2002). Ein Privileg für Wenige: Die deutschsprachige Migration nach Kanada im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus. Münster: Lit.

 

A privilege for a few: the German-speaking migration to Canada in national socialist times.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Else Seel’s “Canadian Diary”: A diary or an autobiographical narrative?

Lech Kosinski
British Columbia

Kosinski, L. (1995). Else seel’s “canadian diary”: A diary or an autobiographical narrative?

 

This thesis examines the work of a female German-Canadian immigrant, Else Seel (nee Lubcke), who moved to this country in 1927 and, with her German-born husband, Georg Seel, settled in a log house in the tiny pioneer community of Wistaria, BC.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Ethnicity and assimilation : German postwar immigrants in Vancouver, 1945-1970

Ruth Gumpp
British Columbia

Gumpp, R. (1989). Ethnicity and assimilation: German postwar immigrants in Vancouver, 1945-1970.

 

This thesis examines the work of a female German-Canadian immigrant, Else Seel (nee Lubcke), who moved to this country in 1927 and, with her German-born husband, Georg Seel, settled in a log house in the tiny pioneer community of Wistaria, BC.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

German emigration to Canada and the support of its Deutschtum during the Weimar Republic : the role of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut, Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland and German-Canadian organisations

Grant Grams
Western Canada

Grams, G. (2001). German emigration to canada and the support of its deutschtum during the weimar republic: The role of the deutsches ausland-institut, verein für das deutschtum im ausland and german-canadian organisations. New York: P. Lang.

 

The role of two German cultural institutions, the Verein fuer das Deutschtum im Ausland (VDA) and Deutsches Ausland Institut (DAI). One thing they all had in common was their desire to save Germans abroad from assimilation.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

GROWING UP CANADIAN: TWELVE CASE STUDIES OF GERMAN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN ALBERTA

Gisela Forchner
Alberta

FORCHNER, G. (1983). GROWING UP CANADIAN: TWELVE CASE STUDIES OF GERMAN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN ALBERTA.

 

The research explores the question of “what it means to grow up as an immigrant child”, with a focus on an understanding of the context within which the immigrant child develops, i.e. the,social*envirqnment,of family , school and peers. The thesis cites interview excerpts and is therefore valuable in regards of primary material, interviewees are researched chapter by chapter.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Identity in immigration: Self-conceptualization and myth in the narratives of German immigrant women in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1950-1960

Alexander Freund
British Columbia

Freund, A. (1994). Identity in immigration: Self-conceptualization and myth in the narratives of German immigrant women in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1950-1960.

 

10 interviewed German women living in Vancouver, BC.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Integration in two cities: A comparative history of Protestant ethnic German immigrants in Winnipeg, Canada and Bielefeld, Germany, 1947–1989

Hans Peter Werner
Manitoba

Werner, H. P. (2002). Integration in two cities: A comparative history of protestant ethnic German immigrants in Winnipeg, Canada and Bielefeld, Germany, 1947–1989.

 


 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Language maintenance and assimilation : the case of selected German-speaking immigrants in Vancouver, Canada

Beatrice Stadler
British Columbia

Stadler, B., & Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. (1983). Language maintenance and assimilation: The case of selected german-speaking immigrants in vancouver, canada. Vancouver: Cautg.

 


 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

‶More German than the Germans” : a linguistic examination of representation and identity in two German-Canadian communities
Barbara L. Hilden
Alberta

Hilden, Barbara L. (2014). More German than the Germans. A linguistic examination of representation and identity in two German-Canadian communities. University of Alberta.

 

This thesis takes a cultural approach to examine how German-Canadian immigrants construct identity, position membership, and enact belonging. Through an examination of 91 interviews recorded with self-described German-Canadians, this thesis identifies specific linguistic tools by which these participants make Germanness and Canadianness relevant in conversation. It examines the means by which community and belonging are expressed, and it considers the categories of membership which participants wittingly and unwittingly construct.

 

LINKS: University of Alberta Library

 


 

Moving west: German-speaking immigration to British Columbia, 1945–1961

Christian Lieb
British Columbia

Lieb, C. (2008). Moving west: German-speaking immigration to British Columbia, 1945–1961

 

51 interviewees with a German background living in BC.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Prisoners of War: A German-Canadian post-war memory project

Elizabeth Schulze
Western Canada

Schulze, E. (2012). Prisoners of war: A German-Canadian post-war memory project.

 

This thesis investigates the transformation of German-Canadian WWII family legacies as they are passed down through generations and between cultures. From a memory studies perspective, I examine my family’s archive of stories and artefacts as a case study, creating a memory project that interprets both autobiographical and co-produced texts created by my grandfather and I that describe his captivity in the American prisoner of war camp at Bad Kreuznach, Germany. Emigrated to Saanich, BC after the fled East Germany. Includes video footage of trip to Germany.

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Reasons for immigration and ethnic identity : an exploration study of German immigrants in Edmonton, Alberta

Thomas Richard Poetschke
Alberta

Poetschke, T. R. (1978). Reasons for immigration and ethnic identity : An exploration study of German immigrants in Edmonton, Alberta.

 

Study of the relationship between reasons for immigration and different dimensions of ethnic identity, reasons for immigration (fear-of-instability or better-elsewhere). Interviews with 78 German immigrants from Edmonton, Alberta (actual interviews are not included),

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

‘Stranger in a strange land’: Images of Canada in European literature, 1800-1990

Karin E. Beeler
Western Canada

Beeler, K. E. (1991). ‘Stranger in a strange land’: Images of Canada in European literature, 1800-1990

 

“This dissertation examines images of Canada in nineteenth and twentieth-century British, French and German literature. The treatment of Canada in these literary traditions is determined by generic, national, cultural, historical and political considerations. Overall, British, French and German works reflect a profound interest in Canada’s past and its rural regions, while largely ignoring the country’s urban dimension”

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The Archaeology of Reform at a German Prisoner of War Camp in a Canadian National Park during the Second World War (1943–1945)

Adrian T. Myers
Western Canada

Myers, T. Adrian(2013). The Archaeology of Reform at a German Prisoner of War Camp in a Canadian National Park during the Second World War (1943–1945).

 

“During the height of the Second World War pressure from Great Britain resulted in the transfer of thousands of German prisoners of war (PoWs) from British to Canadian control. To house them, Canada built a system of PoW camps, including Riding Mountain Camp in southwestern Manitoba.”

 

LINKS: Stanford University

 


 

THE BESSARABIAN GERMAN DIALECT IN MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA

Elvire Eberhardt
Alberta

Eberhardt, E. (1973). THE BESSARABIAN GERMAN DIALECT IN MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The German Immigrant Church in Vancouver: Service Provision and
Identity Formation

Laura Beattie and David Ley
British Columbia

Beattie, Laura & Ley, David (2001). The German Immigrant Church in Vancouver: Service Provision and
Identity Formation.

 

“This paper examines the role of the immigrant church in Canada in the evolving stages of immigrant acculturation. Our case study is of ten congregations in South Vancouver that served the German-speaking newcomers who entered the city in considerable number in the 1950s and 1960s. Using oral histories from pastors and long-established members, church archives, and census material, we assemble the changing place of the immigrant church”

 

LINKS: Metropolis.net

 


 

The German literature of the Russian Mennonites: a critical bibliography of writings located in Manitoba libraries

Victor D. Kliewer
Manitoba

Kliewer, V. D. (1972). The German literature of the Russian Mennonites: A critical bibliography of writings located in Manitoba libraries.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The Nazi movement and German-Canadians, 1933-1939

John Offenbeck
Western Canada

Offenbeck, J. (1970). The Nazi movement and German-Canadians, 1933-1939.

 

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

The use of the conjunction weil among German-speaking Canadian immigrants

Veronica Katherine Miller
Western Canada

Miller, V. K. (2010). The use of the conjunction weil among German-Speaking Canadian immigrants.

 

“Spontaneous, spoken data from two groups of native German speakers who immigrated to Canada before 1970 and after 1985 were analyzed and coded for word order. The data showed an increase in the use of the conjunction weil, and weil V2 among younger native speakers.”

 

LINKS: UBC

 


 

Three times betrayed: The Sudeten Germans of Tomslake, British Columbia

Margaret Melanie Drysdale
British Columbia

Drysdale, M. M. (2005). Three times betrayed: The Sudeten Germans of Tomslake, British Columbia.

 

“Spontaneous, spoken data from two groups of native German speakers who immigrated to Canada before 1970 and after 1985 were analyzed and coded for word order. The data showed an increase in the use of the conjunction weil, and weil V2 among younger native speakers.”

 

LINKS: UBC