Harvest of Stones : : The German Settlement in Renfrew County / / Brenda Lee-Whiting.
Driven by Bismarck's wars and by economic hardship, hundreds of people left eastern Germany between 1858 and 1890 to settle in Canada. The Canadian government started in the late 1850s to open up Renfew County in the Ottawa Valley by building a colonization route -- the Opeongo Road. The effort...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE. Opening up Renfrew County
- CHAPTER TWO. Bismarck's legacy
- CHAPTER THREE. Taming the land
- CHAPTER FOUR. Buildings for a new life
- CHAPTER FOUR. Buildings for a new life
- CHAPTER SIX. In the German immigrant's home
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Furniture makers in a new land
- CHAPTER EIGHT. New horizons, painful exile
- CHAPTER NINE. The German heritage
- Epilogue
- APPENDIX A. German surnames in Renfrew County cemeteries
- APPENDIX B. Wendish surnames in Renfrew County
- APPENDIX C. Agricultural capability of Renfrew County soil
- Notes
- Index