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CANADA & USA

[Einleitung - Introduction] [History & Geography] [Canadian Culture] [Family Connections]

Where Our Relatives Live in North America: CANADA British Columbia - Alberta -  Ontario - Prince Edward Island UNITED STATES OF AMERICA California - Nevada - Arizona -  Texas - Oklahoma - Missouri Iowa - Illinois - Indiana -  Michigan - Ohio - Pennsylvania - Maryland - North Carolina - Florida MEXICO Puebla

Einleitung - Introduction

Kanada und die Vereinigten Staaten in unserer Familiengeschichte		Canada & United States in our family history
Seit den 1870'er Jahren, kommen Siebenbürger Sachsen nach den VSA um in der Stahl- und andere Industrie zu arbeiten, besonders in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh und Newcastle). Das Appalachengebirge ist den Karpaten ähnlich und stillt dem Heimweh. Auch Akron OH, Cleveland OH, Detroit MI, Chicago IL,Gary IN sind Reiseziele. Eigentlich wollen sie wieder nach Hause gehen aber viele bleiben.	LINGNER, MARTINI, BINDER, BAYER, SCHUSTER, GIERLING	Starting in the 1870's Transylvanian Saxons go to USA to find work, mostly in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, Newcastle) steel industry & manufacturing. Appalachian mountains and valleys are very similar to Transylvania and keep home-sickness at bay. Other major destinations: Akron OH, Cleveland OH, Detroit MI, Chicago IL,Gary IN. Original intentions are to go home but many stay.
Schlesier und andere Deutsche wandern aus wegen Armut oder sich neue Anfänge zu machen.	WIEHLE	Silesians and other Germans also emigrate to escape poverty or to seize new opportunities.
Früh in den 20ten Jahrhundert, steigt Auswanderung nach den V.S. durch den Druck der ungarischen Nationalismus und Armut von der Zuwachs der Einwohnerzahl. Manche Familien ziehen nach Texas.	THELLMANN,  MARTINI	In the early 1900's, emigration to the U.S. increases with pressure from Hungarian nationalism and poverty from population growth at home. Some families go to Texas.
Manche diese neue Staatsbürger kämpfen auf der Seite der V.S. im Ersten Weltkrieg. Viele der neuen Generation kennen die deutsche Sprache nicht. Eingrenzung von der Zahl der Einwanderer veranlässt Viele Kanada as alternatives Reiseziel und auch als die Hintertür zur VSA zu benützen. Die neue rumänische Staatsherrschaft in Siebenbürgen erhöht den kulturellen Druck auf der deutschen Minderheit.	LINGNER	Some of these new citizens fight for the US in the First World War. Many of the new generation do not know the German language. US immigration quotas lead to many using Canada both as an alternate destination and as the back door to the US. The new Romanian sovereignty in Transylvania increases cultural pressures on the German minority.
Der Zweite Weltkrieg trennt viele Familien. Manche die für Deutschland gekämpft hatten sind Kriegsgefangene in Kanada und England.	LINGNER SCHOENTHIER	The Second World War divides many families. Some who fought for Germany are POWs in Canada and England.
Der Verlust von Schlesien und West Preußen an Poland und die Vertreibung von die Mehrheit der deutschen Bevölkerung veranläßt Auswanderung nach allen Teilen der Welt, auch den Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada. Dasselbe hält für das von den Kommunisten dominiertes Siebenbürgen.	WIEHLE UNGAR, DENNDORF, LINGNER, BINDER, REIDEL, FRITSCH	The loss of Silesia and West Prussia to Poland and the expulsion of most Germans to war-devastated Germany leads to emigration to all parts of the world, including the US and Canada. The same is true of communist-dominated Transylvania.
Interessante Verbindungen in den neuen Generationen werden gemacht mit Spanien.	DÍAZ GARCíA, MURILLO	Interesting connections in the next generation are being made with Spain.
	bgwiehle@quadro.net

History & Geography

•  Ontario Places with German Roots

Canadian Culture

• Foods (non-German family favourites)
  • Pizza
  • Pasta dishes (lasagna, macaroni, spaghetti)
  • Fish & Chips
  • Corn on the Cob
  • Maple syrup
  • Pie

  Membership Pin from the Siebenbürgen-Klub, Windsor Ontario

• How Germans maintain their culture in Canada 
  • language, food, traditions and music at home
  • letters, phone calls and visits to friends and family still in Germany
  • German-Canadian clubs and club-sponsored events 
    • Die Siebenbürger Sachsen in Kanada
    • Heimattag 2020: 10.-12. Juli, Salem, Ohio
  • religion including German language services in the churches
  • German-language newpapers and television and radio programs 

Family Connections

• Postcard from the "Beaverbrae" 
  . . .My father, Gerhard Wiehle came to Canada in 1951 on the "Beaverbrae"
• Letter concerning "Columbia" - Brief an Källners in Hude (1953)
  . . .My father's parents, Georg Wiehle and Elisabeth née (geb.) Haunschild came to Canada in 1953 on the "Columbia"
• The Wiehle Family Farm - Aldborough Conc. 12, Lot 3
  . . . . . Part 1 (Location, Field & Buildings)
  . . . . . Part 2 (Past Owners, Wehlann's Brickyard)
  . . . . . Documents (Wills, Deeds)
  . . . Although other properties in Canada were and are owned by members of our family, these pages pertain to the home farm where my siblings and I grew up.
• German-Canadian Friends and Neighbours
  . . . Many of my parents' and grandparents' friends and neighbours were also new immigrants to Canada. However, some were second and third generation Canadians of German heritage.
• Grace Lutheran Church (West Lorne, Ontario)
  This is the church which my father helped build, where he and my mother married and where all of their children were baptized and confirmed. There were services in German as well as English until the mid-1970's.
  • Grace Lutheran Church - Congregation History
  • Grace Lutheran Church - Pastors & Synods
  • Grace Lutheran Church - Church Councils 1951-1976
  • Grace Lutheran Church - Stained Glass Windows
• SELECTED CEMETERY PHOTOS - Canadian and American Cemeteries:
   Pictures from cemeteries with links to the WIEHLE & LINGNER families and their friends. Includes links to other on-line resources.
  • ONTARIO - CANADA - Especially Rodney and West Lorne Cemeteries in West Elgin, also Elmdale Memorial Park Cemetery (St. Thomas), St. Peter's Cemetery (Kitchener), etc.
  • USA - few photos, but surname references to specific cemeteries, especially in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas
•  Nachtgebet - Bedtime Prayer
  . . . The children's prayer that we prayed as very small children:

  Müde bin ich, geh' zur Ruh',
  schließe meine Äuglein zu!
  Vater, laß die Augen dein
  über meinem Bette sein!

  Hab' ich unrecht heut getan,
  sieh es, lieber Gott, nicht an:
  deine Gnad' und Jesu Blut
  macht ja allen Schaden gut.

  Alle, die mir sind verwandt,
  Gott, laß ruh'n in deiner Hand;
  alle Menschen, groß und klein,
  sollen dir befohlen sein.