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Annotated Bibliography of the Cultural History of the German-speaking Communities in Alberta Seventh Up-Date: 2012-2013 © 2014 Compiler: Manfred Prokop Annotated Bibliography of the Cultural History of the German-speaking Communities in Alberta: 1882-2000. Seventh Up-Date: 2012-2013 Compiler: Manfred Prokop 209 Tucker Boulevard, Okotoks, AB, T1S 2K1 Phone/Fax: (403) 995-0321. E-Mail: [email protected] ISBN 978-0-9687876-9-4 © Manfred Prokop 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview and Quickstart ............................................................................................................................................. 1 Description of the Database ......................................................................................................................................... 2 Brief history of the project ............................................................................................................................... 2 Materials ........................................................................................................................................................... 2 Sources ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 Location and availability of materials .............................................................................................................. 3 Specialized keyword lists ................................................................................................................................. 3 Specialized keyword lists Keywords in business, commerce and industry ................................................................................................. 4 Keywords in the occupations and professions .................................................................................................. 4 German-Albertan businesses, Austrian/German/Swiss business partners or investors .................................... 5 Church names ................................................................................................................................................... 6 Names of Hutterite colonies ............................................................................................................................. 6 German-Canadian social clubs and other groups ............................................................................................. 6 German-Albertan bands, orchestras, choirs and other musical groups ............................................................. 7 Visiting bands, orchestras, choirs and other musical groups ....................................................................... 7 Festivals and other events ............................................................................................................................ 7 German-Albertan dance, theatre and carnival groups ...................................................................................... 8 Persons mentioned in the Bibliography ............................................................................................................ 8 Awards and prizes ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Schools and other educational institutions and initiatives ............................................................................... 10 Bibliographical entries ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Keyword index ............................................................................................................................................................... 79 Overview and Quickstart 1 OVERVIEW This is the seventh up-date of the Annotated Bibliography of the Cultural History of the German-Speaking Commu- nities in Alberta: 1882-2000—which appeared in 2002—covering publications during 2012 and 2013. It also in- cludes hundreds of items published before 2012, most of them located in Alberta’s Provincial Archives and other repositories which have recently become available on-line, among them abstracts from Alberta’s Ger- man-language newspapers between 1905 and the present. The entire bibliography consisting of 10,250 entries is also available on the Internet at http://www.ualberta.ca/ ~german/altahistory/. Up-dates have been performed frequently on this site while printed up-dates have appeared annually or biannually. A complementary website (http://www.ualberta.ca/~german/PAA/start.htm) offers infor- mation about Alberta's German-speaking communities from the 1880s to the present, their origin in Central and Eastern Europe, and their settlement history in the province. The Bibliography Project documents the cultural history of the German-speaking cultural groups in Alberta from its beginnings in the 1880s to the present by assembling in one place references to the thousands of primary and secon- dary materials available in libraries and archives across Alberta and elsewhere. The objective of this project is to facilitate research in German-Albertan history by scholars, teachers, students, and anyone else interested in the sub- ject. Please note: This is an annotated bibliography, not a continuous text. Each entry (newspaper articles, books, maps, photos, recordings, journal articles, etc.) contains the author (where applicable), title, year of publication and a brief description of its content, ranging from one sentence to several pages depending on the complexity of the material. These summaries will provide an overview of events; details can be obtained by consulting the originals. For example, 103. Carstens, H. "Die deutschen Kolonien." Der Nordwesten, 15 July 1897, p. 1. Account of the author's trip to Wetaskiwin, Edmonton, Stony Plain, Bruederfeld, Rabbit Hill and the vicinity of Leduc. Report on the satisfactory progress made by the 55 German settlers in the vicinity of Wetaskiwin. See also July 22, 1897. Availability: Alberta Legislature Library, Edmonton. This up-date, covering 2012 and 2013, consists of three main parts: 1. The bibliography containing 667 entries. 2. An alphabetically arranged index of the ca. 1,173 keywords used to index this up-date of the Bibliogra- phy. 3. Lists of the names of clubs, churches, businesses and professions, persons mentioned in the Bibli- ography etc. to facilitate the search. QUICK START This bibliography is easy to use. Let’s assume that you want to find all references to the German-Canadian Club of Calgary. 1. Go to the Index and look for “German-Canadian Club of Calgary” (the search term is on p. 78). Next to it, you will find a list of the record numbers in which this search term occurs (in this case, 467 and 489). 2. Go the main part of the bibliography and look for each record number in turn. For instance, record num- ber 467 appears on page 52. 2 Description of the database DESCRIPTION OF THE DATABASE A. Brief history of the project During the 1970s and 1980s, both the Federal Government of Canada and the Provincial Government of Alberta encouraged Canada's ethnocultural groups to maintain, document and develop their cultural heritage, and they pro- vided funding for this purpose. Like many other groups, the German-Canadian Association of Alberta decided to establish an inventory of German-Canadiana in Alberta's libraries, archives and private collections. This in- ventory was to make it possible for members of the several German-speaking groups and others, for scholars as well as teachers, to access information about the heritage of speakers of German in the province in a single, central data- base. Please note: In this bibliography, the terms "German cultural group" and "speakers of German" include "Germans" from Germany in its various political incarnations, from the U.S., Central and Eastern Europe; it also includes the Austro-Hungarians, the Austrians, the Swiss, the Mennonites, and the Hutterites. The term "German" or "the Germans" should therefore always be taken to refer to this broader meaning. A small committee consisting of representatives of the German-Canadian Association of Alberta and several staff members from the University of Alberta developed an action plan. After a grant was received from the Multicultural Commission, a researcher was hired to collect bibliographical references on the "German cultural groups in Alberta" and to organize them by keywords in a standard card catalogue. A great deal of work was accomplished by the re- searcher in documenting more than 1,000 entries. However, as government policy changed, grant money became no longer available, and after about six months the search had to be terminated. Several months later, a volunteer from the Association entered more than half the items collected into a professional-quality database to facilitate informa- tion retrieval. Subsequently, the project lay dormant for several years. In 1998, the compiler of this Bibliography undertook to complete the project on his own on behalf of, and with the consent of the German-Canadian Association of Alberta. Two years later, the Bibliography was published on the Internet and as a book to disseminate this information as widely as possible to both the professional and the lay per- son interested in the cultural history of “the Germans" in Alberta. It is hoped that the concise annotation accompany- ing each entry