ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Early work on this project was made possible, in part, by grants from the Alberta Multicultural Commission and by the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg.

The help and support of the following individuals, who have assisted at various times from 1998 on, is also gratefully acknowledged:

  • Kevin Brown, during the initial stage of the project at the German-Canadian Association of Alberta, for conducting the first phase of the data collection;
  • Terry Butler (Director, Technologies for Learning Center, Faculty of Arts) for writing the software for the bibliographical searches after the commercial product failed to work properly, and for maintaining the data base on the Faculty of Arts server for several years;
  • Dr. Alexander Malycky (Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Calgary) for his assistance in providing access to certain elusive sources;
  • Kamal Ranaweera (Team Lead of the Arts Resource Centre in the Faculty of Arts) for writing the search software after it was lost in a server crash; and Melania Ru'Aini who helped greatly in the final stages of writing the search software
  • Eva Rotzetter at the Kanada Kurier's office in Winnipeg for providing access to the newspaper's archives;
  • Dr. Angelika Sauer (Chair of German-Canadian Studies, University of Winnipeg) for her support and encouragement;
  • Klaus Weiher (German-Canadian Association of Alberta) for obtaining the initial funding for the project;
  • the staff in the library of the University of Alberta, the Provincial Archives of Alberta, the Alberta Legislature, the Glenbow Museum and Archives, the City of Edmonton Archives, and the Manitoba Legislature for their helpful assistance.

and to Erika Banski, Maria Knak, Anny Leeb, Darryl Staflund, and Elfriede Mietzner for their assisstance at various times throughout the completion of the project. Special thanks goes to Arnim Joop, editor of the Albertaner, for having supplied free copies of his newspaper since 1995 and for his continued support over the years.

Photo credits for the images appearing on the title page:

  1. "The first church in Bruderheim, Alberta, in the early 1890s". In Gerhard P. Bassler (transl. and ed.). 1986. Heinz Lehmann: The German-Canadians 1750-1937 (St. John's, Newfoundland, Jesperson Press, 1986). Image 4 after p. 368.
  2. "Mr. and Mrs. Heinrich Schultz, Bruderheim Moravian Church. Schultz was chairman of the local school board from 1900-1905. Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Canada. NA-2676-5.
  3. "Hutterite girl." Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Canada. NA-1752-14.
  4. "German Days 1932 held on August 4 in the Victoria Park, Edmonton." Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Canada. D-3-6181.
  5. "German immigrants." Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Canada. NA-1960-1.
  6. "German-Canadian Cultural Center, Roper Road, Edmonton." Arnim Joop, June 2000.


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