Being German Canadian

Author : Alexander Freund
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887555954

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Being German Canadian by Alexander Freund Pdf

Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other’s integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants. As one of Canada’s largest ethnic groups, German Canadians allow for a variety of longitudinal and multi-generational studies that explore how different generations have negotiated and transmitted diverse individual experiences, collective memories, and national narratives. Drawing on recent research in memory and migration studies, this volume studies how twentieth-century violence shaped the integration of immigrants and their descendants. More broadly, the collection seeks to document the state of the field in German-Canadian history. Being German Canadian brings together senior and junior scholars from History and related disciplines to investigate the relationship between, and significance of, the concepts of generation and memory for the study of immigration and ethnic history. It aims to move immigration historiography towards exploring the often fraught relationship among different immigrant generations—whether generation is defined according to age cohort or era of arrival.

Author : Arthur Grenke
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781490772028

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German Canadians by Arthur Grenke Pdf

In German Canadians: Community Formation, Transformation and Contribution to Canadian Life, Grenke explores important themes in the German Canadian experience, including immigration, social life, the war experiences, intermarriage, political participation and the German contribution to Canadian life. Focusing on language maintenance and transition, the study explores their effect on the formation and decline of different German Canadian communities as they emerged and dissolved. While the reader may, or may not, agree with some of the conclusions reached, the work should, nevertheless, stimulate reflection and discussion.

Author : Heinz Lehmann
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Jesperson Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000027186794

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The German Canadians, 1750-1937 by Heinz Lehmann Pdf

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.

Author : Ruth Klein
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773540170

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Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses by Ruth Klein Pdf

Exploring the nature of Canada's response to the plight of European Jews seeking refuge and to anti-Jewish discrimination in Canada.

Author : Hans Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106017336634

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Imagined Homes by Hans Werner Pdf

A study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process of integration into a new urban environment.

Author : Jonathan Wagner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774841542

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A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 by Jonathan Wagner Pdf

Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants. He examines the German context as closely as developments in Canada, offering a new, more complete approach to German-Canadian immigration.

Author : Jonathan Wagner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774812160

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A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 by Jonathan Wagner Pdf

Human migration figures prominently in modern world history, and has played a pivotal role in shaping the Canadian national state. Yet while much has been written about Canada's multicultural heritage, little attention has been paid to German migrants although they compose Canada's third largest European ethnic minority. A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 addresses that gap in the record. Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants. He examines the German context as closely as developments in Canada, offering a new, more complete approach to German-Canadian immigration. This book will appeal to students of German Canadiana, as well as to those interested in Canadian ethnic history, and European and modern international migration.

Author : K. M. McLaughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Canada
ISBN : IND:39000006079011

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The Germans in Canada by K. M. McLaughlin Pdf

Author : Angelika E. Sauer,Matthias Zimmer
Publisher : New York : P. Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015047454692

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A Chorus of Different Voices by Angelika E. Sauer,Matthias Zimmer Pdf

German Canadians are generally considered well assimilated, and inconspicuous, their presence in Canada going virtually unnoticed. Scholars over the past decades have struggled to explain this relative invisibility, taking the existence of a German-Canadian ethnic group with a distinct culture for granted. The contributors question this assumption and take a fresh look at definitions of German Canadians and the processes of identity formation. A Chorus of Different Voices represents a kaleidoscopic image of German-Canadian identities, past and present.

Author : Gerhard P. Bassler
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525590351

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Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens by Gerhard P. Bassler Pdf

Today German Canadians are among Canada’s most assimilated citizens, often distinguishable from other Canadians by their name only. For centuries their pioneer farmers, economic developers, industrialists, professionals, musicians, artists, missionaries, fisherman, boat builders, and soldiers have acquired an acknowledged reputation as nation builders in Canada. Not too long ago, however, they were also associated with Canada’s enemy in two world wars, discriminated against, and subjected to infringements of their citizenship rights. Virtually overnight, Canadians of German-speaking background were recast into disloyal enemy aliens. Anti-German sentiments and stigmas, unknown in Canada before World War I, became firmly entrenched and have obliterated their legacy as nation builders. This book documents and illustrates how German Canadians have experienced Canada and how Canada has experienced German Canadians over the course of four centuries. It shows what influence Canada’s relations with Germany had on this development. This is the first comprehensive synopsis of the German experience in Canada.

Author : Jan Raska
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555701

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Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada by Jan Raska Pdf

During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-communist and democratic values. Diplomats, industrialists, politicians, professionals, workers, and students fled to the West in search of freedom, security, and economic opportunity. Jan Raska’s Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada explores how these newcomers joined or formed ethnocultural organizations to help in their attempts to affect developments in Czechoslovakia and Canadian foreign policy towards their homeland. Canadian authorities further legitimized the Czech refugees’ anti-communist agenda and increased their influence in Czechoslovak institutions. In turn, these organizations supported Canada’s Cold War agenda of securing the state from communist infiltration. Ultimately, an adherence to anti-communism, the promotion of Canadian citizenship, and the cultivation of a Czechoslovak ethnocultural heritage accelerated Czech refugees’ socioeconomic and political integration in Cold War Canada. By analyzing oral histories, government files, ethnic newspapers, and community archival records, Raska reveals how Czech refugees secured admission as desirable immigrants and navigated existing social, cultural, and political norms in Cold War Canada.

Author : Jonathan Frederick Wagner
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 077481215X

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A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 by Jonathan Frederick Wagner Pdf

Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants. He examines the German context as closely as developments in Canada, offering a new, more complete approach to German-Canadian immigration.

Author : Hans Lehmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0920502776

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The German Canadians 1750-1937 by Hans Lehmann Pdf

Author : Francis Peddie
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554605

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Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable by Francis Peddie Pdf

Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material and emotional repercussions. In Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable, Francis Peddie documents the experiences of twenty-one Chileans as they navigate their newfound identity as exiles. Peddie also considers how the admission of people from the wrong side of the Cold War ideological divide had an effect on Canadian immigration and refugee policy, establishing a precedent for the admission of political exiles over the decades that followed.

Author : Adara Goldberg
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554940

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Holocaust Survivors in Canada by Adara Goldberg Pdf

In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological, and emotional needs challenged both the established Jewish community and resettlement agents alike. Adara Goldberg’s Holocaust Survivors in Canada highlights the immigration, resettlement, and integration experience from the perspective of Holocaust survivors and those charged with helping them. The book explores the relationships between the survivors, Jewish social service organizations, and local Jewish communities; it considers how those relationships—strained by disparities in experience, language, culture, and worldview—both facilitated and impeded the ability of survivors to adapt to a new country. Researched in basement archives and as well as at Holocaust survivors’ kitchen tables, Holocaust Survivors in Canada represents the first comprehensive analysis of the resettlement, integration, and acculturation experience of survivors in early postwar Canada. Goldberg reveals the challenges in responding to, and recovering from, genocide—not through the lens of lawmakers, but from the perspective of “new Canadians” themselves.