In tracing the pioneering role that German-speaking settlers from all over Europe and America played in the opening up and development of large parts of eastern and western Canada, Lehmann shows German Canadians to be one of Canada's founding peoples. His work establishes the important role played by ethnic Germans in the cultural and economic growth of Canada.
Lehmann's account brings out the problematic nature of German-Canadian identity, which is a product of the religious, national, regional and generational divisions characterizing the German-Canadian mosaic. The analysis of extensive interaction among German settlers of different backgrounds, however, refutes the assumption of German Canadians as a mere accumulation of separate ethnic groups sharing the accident of a common mother tongue. Lehmann highlights the fact that Germans from eastern Europe and from the United States, and Mennonites in particular, rather than Germans from Germany, have given German-Canadian culture its unique stamp.
Today we owe much of our knowledge of the roots and origins, the composition, the evolution and the spatial distribution of the German-Canadian community to Lehmann. His comprehensive and thorough analysis is the sine qua non for any serious preoccupation with the subject.
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Foreword 20
- Editor-Translator's Note 22
- Introduction: Heinz Lehmann and German-Canadian History 25
- Prefaces to the Original German Editions 64
- Chapter I: German Migrations to the Territory of Present-Day Canada Prior to Confederation 70
- 1. German Military Assistance in the Conquest of Canada 70
- 2. The First German Immigrants 72
- 3. German "Loyalists" and "Hessians" 73
- 4. The Mennonite Immigration from Pennsylvania 77
- 5. The Immigration from Germany to Ontario from about 1830 80
- 6. German Pioneers in Western Canada's Oldest Settlement: Lord Selkirk's Colony 88
- Chapter II: Pioneers and Colonizers in the Maritimes, Quebec and Eastern Ontario 94
- 1. The Immigration from Germany in the 1750s 94
- 2. The Germans in Lunenburg County 97
- 3. Germans in Halifax and Other Parts of Nova Scotia 101
- 4. German Pioneers in New Brunswick 105
- 5. The German Element in Quebec 107
- 6. German United Empire Loyalist Colonies at the St. Lawrence and at the Bay of Quinte 112
- 7. Settlement in the Ottawa Valley 119
- Chapter III: Little Germanies in Nineteenth-Century Southwestern Ontario 124
- 1. The Niagara District 124
- 2. Waterloo County 129
- 3. The Huron Tract 143
- 4. The Remaining Counties Adjoining Waterloo 149
- 5. York County and the Surrounding Counties 152
- 6. Germans in Other Parts of Southwestern Ontario and in New Ontario 155
- Chapter IV: From the Russian Steppes to the Prairie Frontier 159
- 1. The Opening of the West 159
- 2. Canadian Immigration Policy 163
- 3. The German Exodus to Western Canada, 1874 to 1914: Places of Origin and Reasons for Emigration 170
- a. Russia 171
- b. Austria-Hungary 181
- c. Romania (Dobrudja) 188
- d. Germany 190
- e. The United States 193
- f. Ontario, Switzerland and Other German-speaking Areas 195
- Chapter V: Trailblazers of Western Immigration and Settlement 198
- 1. The Prewar Immigration 198
- 2. The Postwar Immigration 210
- 3. Homesteading 227
- 4. The Economic Development 234
- 5. The Fate of the Postwar Immigrants 239
- Chapter VI: Settlement Patterns in Western Canada 247
- 1. Manitoba 249
- a. The Mennonite Settlements in Southern Manitoba 249
- b. The Remaining Rural German Settlements 257
- c. The Germans in Winnipeg 259
- 2. Saskatchewan 261
- a. The Mennonite Settlements 261
- b. The German Catholic Settlements 267
- c. The Rural German Protestant Settlements 284
- d. The Urban German Element 300
- 3. Alberta 302
- a. The Mennonite Settlements 302
- b. The German Catholic Settlements 303
- c. The German Protestant Settlements 304
- d. The Urban German Element 313
- 4. British Columbia 315
- Chapter VII: Religious, Secular and Cultural Life in Western Canada 320
- 1. The Church Congregation as the Mainstay of Ethnicity 320
- a. The Mennonites 325
- b. The Catholics 329
- c. The Lutherans 330
- d. The Other Protestants 335
- 2. German Club Life 337
- a. Manitoba 339
- b. Saskatchewan 339
- c. Alberta 341
- d. British Columbia 342
- 3. The German Day Celebrations 344
- 4. The German Element in Canadian Politics 345
- 5. Level of Culture and the Preservation of the German Heritage 348
- 6. The German Press 351
- 7. The Beginnings of a Canadian German Literature and of other Artistic Activity 356
- Chapter VIII: Language Loyalty and Ethnic Retention 359
- 1. Measuring Ethnic Retention in Western Canada 359
- 2. Revitalization of German Ethnicity in Eastern Canada? 367
- 3. Language Loyalty and the Question of German Language Instruction 377
- 4. The Prospects of Ethnic Retention 398
- Appendix 408
- Table 1: 1931 Census Data on the German Element in Canada 410
- Table 2: Ethnic Composition of Western Canada's Population, 1931 411
- Table 3: Proportion of German-speaking Population to Total Population of Prairie Provinces, 1931 413
- Table 4: Distribution of Germans (and British) among Rural and Urban Localities, 1931 414
- Table 5: Comparison of 1931 Mother Tongue Data with 1931 and 1936 Data on German and Austrian Origin 415
- Table 6: Religious Denomination of Canada's German Population by Province, 1931 416
- Resolution adopted by the First German Day Celebrations for Saskatchewan, held in Regina on August 9 and 10, 1930 417
- Mapping German Settlement in the Prairie Provinces 419
- Map 1: Rural Population of German Origin, 1921 426
- Map 2: Saskatchewan's Population of Non-British Origin in 1911 427
- Map 3: Alberta's Population of German Origin in 1921 428
- Map 4: St. Peter's Colony, Saskatchewan, Lands Occupied by Germans, 1936 429
- Map 5: St. Joseph's Colony, Saskatchewan, Lands Occupied by Germans, 1936 430
- Map 6: Westkanada und sein Deutschtum, 1938 (Germans in Western Canada, 1938) 431
- Notes 456
- Bibliography 546
- Index 584
- A 584
- B 586
- C 589
- D 592
- E 594
- F 596
- G 597
- H 600
- I 602
- J 603
- K 603
- L 604
- M 607
- N 610
- O 612
- P 613
- Q 615
- R 615
- S 618
- T 623
- U 624
- V 625
- W 626
- Y 628
- Z 628
- Untitled 163
