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Germans of Waterloo Region

par Mathias Schulze (Directeur de publication), Grit Liebscher (Directeur de publication), Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach (Directeur de publication)

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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. . LCSH: Germans--Ontario--Waterloo (Regional Municipality)--History--1938-2011 LCSH: Germans--Ontario-- Waterloo (Regional Municipality)--Social conditions--1938-2011 LCSH: Waterloo (Ont.: Regional municipality)-- Emigration and immigration--1938-2011 LCGFT: Oral histories… (plus d'informations)

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Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies has compiled a collection of articles describing the complex and diverse history of German settlement in the Waterloo [previously Berlin] region of Southern Ontario. German settlers arrived through a number of immigration waves starting in the early 1800s from a variety of locations and faith traditions. This diaspora originated within German-speaking areas of central Europe as well as and from the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the former Yugoslavia, the steppes of Ukraine and the Soviet Union. This study incorporates over 100 oral histories in detailing a rich multi-generational community life.

This volume will be of great benefit to anyone with an interest in the settlement history of Ontario and Canada and especially in the extensive international German diaspora. (

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Kobzar | Jan 15, 2024 |

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I won this ebook as part of the Early Review program they have at LibraryThing. I forgot about it until one day the folks at LT reminded me that I have an abysmal record for reviewing free books. I think I am running a solid 17% rate for books received. So I downloaded this book onto Dropbox and once again forgot about it.
Time passed. I grew a beard. I cut off my beard. Then one day I found myself at a speech competition with my youngest daughter and had some time to spare. I re-discovered the emails from LT scolding me for being a cheapskate. So I opened up this ebook and started skimming over the content of the book.

It appears to be more like an extensively researched academic publication rather than the warm stories of Germans leaving their home and settling in Canada. But the preface/forward does mention that the purpose of this book was to record and preserve the oral history of this ethnic group and that part of Canada. So I say well done for preserving their stories, even though I was hoping for a good story along the lines of James Michener. (

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19vatermit64 | Jan 7, 2023 |

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This work is the product of an academic group with many contributors. The casual reader may safely skim past the first chapter description of how studies were designed and how people were chosen. The chapter on history was interesting and provided the background to understand the personal stories later in the book. I found the personal stories, presented in a variety of themed chapters, to be the best part. (

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rocko | May 30, 2022 |

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An interesting book, as someone who lives around Texas Germans it’s interesting to compare and contrast stories and traditions. All round it’s a pretty good, informative read. (

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TheBiblioGnome | Apr 18, 2022 |

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Very interesting read. Found the stories of the traditions very interesting, (

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Midgit | Apr 10, 2022 |

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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. . LCSH: Germans--Ontario--Waterloo (Regional Municipality)--History--1938-2011 LCSH: Germans--Ontario-- Waterloo (Regional Municipality)--Social conditions--1938-2011 LCSH: Waterloo (Ont.: Regional municipality)-- Emigration and immigration--1938-2011 LCGFT: Oral histories

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