Annotated Bibliography of the Cultural History of the German-Speaking Community in Alberta: 1882-2000
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Annotated Bibliography of the Cultural History of the German-speaking Community in Alberta Fifth Up-Date: 2008-2009 A project of the German-Canadian Association of Alberta © 2010 Compiler: Manfred Prokop Annotated Bibliography of the Cultural History of the German-speaking Community in Alberta: 1882-2000. Fifth Up-Date: 2008-2009 In collaboration with the German-Canadian Association of Alberta German-Canadian Cultural Center, 8310 Roper Road, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6E 6E3 Compiler: Manfred Prokop 209 Tucker Boulevard, Okotoks, AB, Canada T1S 2K1 Phone/Fax: (403) 995-0321. E-Mail: [email protected] ISBN 0-9687876-0-6 © Manfred Prokop 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview ............................................................................................................................................................................... 1 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 Churches, synagogues and associated groups ......................................................................................................... 5 Hutterite colonies ................................................................................................................................................... 5 German-Albertan social clubs and other groups ................................................................................................... 5 Visiting bands, orchestras, choirs and other musical groups; singers ................................................................... 6 Festivals, exhibits and other events ........................................................................................................................ 6 Visiting theater groups and individuals ................................................................................................................. 6 Awards .................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Persons mentioned in the Bibliography ................................................................................................................. 6 Bibliography Articles in newspapers ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Keyword index ................................................................................................................................................................... 47 Overview 1 OVERVIEW This is the fifth up-date of the Annotated Bibliography of the Cultural History of the German-Speaking Community in Alberta: 1882-2000, which appeared in 2002. The entire bibliography is also available on the Internet at http://www.ualberta.ca/~german/altahistory/. Up-dates will be per-formed frequently on this site while printed up-dates appear biennially. A complementary website (http://www.ualberta.ca/ ~german/PAA/start.htm) offers information 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 This bibliography 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 secondary 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 subject. Please note: This is an annotated bibliography, not a continuous text. Each entry C newspaper articles, books, maps, photos, recordings, journal articles, etc. C 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 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 consists of three main parts: 1. The bibliography containing 310 entries. 2. An alphabetically arranged index of the ca. 620 keywords used to index this up-date of the Bibliography. 3. Lists of the names of clubs, churches, businesses and professions, persons mentioned in the Bibliography etc. to facilitate the search. QUICK START This bibliography is easy to use. Let’s assume that you want to find all references to “Life stories” of German-Albertans. 1. Go to the Index and look for “Life stories” (the search term is on p. 49). Next to it, you will find a list of the record numbers in which this search term occurs (in this case, 197, 204, 215, 219, 222, 231, 234, 292, 295, 309). 2. Go the main part of the bibliography and look for each record number in turn. For instance, record number 197 appears on page 31. 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 provided 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 inventory 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 database. 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 researcher 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 information 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 person interested in the cultural history of “the Germans" in Alberta. It is hoped that the concise annotation accompanying each entry will provide enough information to whet the reader's curiosity and to guide him or her in researching topics of interest. This bibliography adds substantially to the important and comprehensive investigations