Being German Canadian
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Being German Canadian
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Author : Alexander Freund
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date : 2021-04-30
Being German Canadian written by Alexander Freund and has been published by Univ. of Manitoba Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with Social Science categories.
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.
German Canadians
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Author : Arthur Grenke
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2018-07-11
German Canadians written by Arthur Grenke and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-11 with History categories.
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.
The German Canadians 1750 1937
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Author : Heinz Lehmann
language : en
Publisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Jesperson Press
Release Date : 1986
The German Canadians 1750 1937 written by Heinz Lehmann and has been published by St. John's, Nfld. : Jesperson Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
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.
A History Of Migration From Germany To Canada 1850 1939
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Author : Jonathan Wagner
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
A History Of Migration From Germany To Canada 1850 1939 written by Jonathan Wagner and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Germans In Canada
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Author : K. M. McLaughlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Germans In Canada written by K. M. McLaughlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Canada categories.
Nation Builders And Enemy Aliens
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Author : Gerhard P. Bassler
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2021-11-09
Nation Builders And Enemy Aliens written by Gerhard P. Bassler and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with History categories.
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.
The German Canadians 1750 1937
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Author : Hans Lehmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The German Canadians 1750 1937 written by Hans Lehmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
A Chorus Of Different Voices
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Author : Angelika E. Sauer
language : en
Publisher: New York : P. Lang
Release Date : 1998
A Chorus Of Different Voices written by Angelika E. Sauer and has been published by New York : P. Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Foreign Language Study categories.
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.
In Other Words
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Author : Norbert Ruebsaat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06
In Other Words written by Norbert Ruebsaat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06 with categories.
In Other Words is the story of a young German boy coming of age in small-town Canada. Immigrating to British Columbia after WWII, struggling with new words in a new country, the quiet boy in lederhosen tries to fit in with the loud boys in jeans, exploring new friendships amidst wide-eyed adventure in the valleys and mountains of the Kootenays. As young Norbert gradually captures and holds his new language, he learns to be Canadian while remaining German: he becomes multicultural. This book is at once an absorbing memoir, a valuable document on German Canadian experience, and a deep meditation on how language shapes our sense of time and place. "Norbert Ruebsaat's In Other Words is a book that moves deftly among a range of voices - voices at di erent ages, and in different languages and cultures, voices that take us from echoes of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm to a child's life in the Canadian West, which was still a frontier in the mid-twentieth century. Above all, it is about an adventure in language, about how we are shaped by moving into a realm of "other words" . . . A riveting tale for all of us." - Stan Persky, author ofLetter from Berlin
Beyond The Nation
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Author : Alexander Freund
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2012-10-30
Beyond The Nation written by Alexander Freund and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-30 with History categories.
Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries — from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migration — including Dirk Hoerder and the late Christiane Harzig — detail these German-Canadians' experiences of immigration by investigating their imagined communities and collective memories. Beyond the Nation? outlines how German-Canadians invented ethnicity under Canadian expectations, and provides moving case studies of how notable immigrant groups integrated into Canadian society. Other topics explored include literary constructions of German-Canadian identity, analyses of language use among these immigrants, and aspects of their lives that can be interpreted as transcultural and gendered. Transcending the master narrative of immigration as nation building, Beyond the Nation? charts a new course for immigration studies.