Destination: The Americas
Canada
Montreal, Quebec (QC)
Archivist: Nick Tullius
After World War II, Danube Swabian Club life was launched in Montreal in 1947 by pre-war immigrants from Hungary eager to revive the Swabian-German Association, which had prospered from 1929 to 1940. It had 400 members in 1936, the membership reached to 350 by 1980. In Ontario, Danube Swabians created a religious center of their own. St. Michael's Windsor, in 1949; an annual festival, Danube Swabian Day, in 1959; a cultural center, St. Michaelwerk Toronto, the following year; a recreational site, Danube Swabian Park "Waldheim," in 1961; the pilgrimage Shrine of Our Lady at Marylake near Toronto three years later; the retirement home "Heimathof" Windsor in 1984; and their own apartment complex in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, called Blue Danube House, in 1994. Today eleven social clubs are affiliated in the Alliance of the Danube Swabians of Canada (Verband der Donauschwaben in Kanada, which publishes a monthly paper called Heimatbote (Messenger from Home; Toronto, 1959-). Most also have German members without Danube Swabian roots. By providing a wide range of youth, women's, social, educational, cultural, religious, music, sports, and charitable activities, they have reconstructed an identity consisting of Danube Swabian and other German cultural element. [Complete Story: Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples]
Local Genealogical Research Aids
After World War II, Danube Swabian club life was launched in Montreal in 1947 by ... of the Danube Swabians of Canada (Verband der Donauschwaben in Kanada), [page 602 Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples By Paul R. Magocsi, Multicultural History Society of Ontario]
Memories of Montreal, remembered by our Donauschwaben
Articles & Translations
Montreal's St Boniface Church celebrates its 90th anniversary
Parish of the German-speaking Catholics in Montreal, 1930
The construction of St. Bonifatius Church, 26 May 1946
Montreal Danube Swabian Researchers:
Nick Tullius - Journey from Alexanderhausen to Ottawa Sketch of a Memoir
Rudy Jobba - Story of the Jobba family from Banat to Montreal
Knees, Banat to Montreal
By Emma & Rudy Jobba, Montreal, 1 July 2005
Recollections of a six year old boy who immigrated from Knees (now Satchinez) in Romania to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the year 1929 [Complete Story]
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