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Vikings to U-Boats

The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador

By: Gerhard P. Bassler

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Vikings to U-Boats

The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador

By: Gerhard P. Bassler

Vikings to U-Boats explores the colony's hidden multicultural history, examining both sides of the German-Newfoundland/Labrador experience. From first recorded contacts to the end of World War II, Bassler traces the lives of German-speaking fishermen, musicians, doctors, engineers, and entrepreneurs. He reconstructs the historical reality behind U-Boat and spy stories and analyses the change in status of the colony's German-speaking people from neighbours to "enemy aliens." Vikings to U-Boats challenges the assumption that the history of Newfoundland and Labrador was shaped solely by English-speakers from the British Isles.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773580778

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9780773580770

Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival

By: Gerhard P. Bassler

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Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival

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Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring in Latvia, Germany, and Canada from 1938 to 1954 is more the stuff of fiction than history.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802044131

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9780802044136

Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens

Four Centuries of German Experience in Canada

By: Gerhard P. Bassler

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Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens

Four Centuries of German Experience in Canada

By: Gerhard P. Bassler

Today German Canadians are among Canada’s most assimilated citizens, often distinguishable from other Canadians by their name only. For centuries their pioneer farmers, economic developers, industrialists, professionals, musicians, artists, missionaries, fisherman, boat builders, and soldiers have acquired an acknowledged reputation as nation builders in Canada. Not too long ago, however, they were also associated with Canada’s enemy in two world wars, discriminated against, and subjected to infringements of their citizenship rights. Virtually overnight, Canadians of German-speaking background were recast into disloyal enemy aliens. Anti-German sentiments and stigmas, unknown in Canada before World War I, became firmly entrenched and have obliterated their legacy as nation builders. This book documents and illustrates how German Canadians have experienced Canada and how Canada has experienced German Canadians over the course of four centuries. It shows what influence Canada’s relations with Germany had on this development. This is the first comprehensive synopsis of the German experience in Canada.

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FriesenPress

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1525590359

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9781525590351

Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival

By: Gerhard P. Bassler

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Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival

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Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring in Latvia, Germany, and Canada from 1938 to 1954 is more the stuff of fiction than history.

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Vikings to U-Boats

The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador

By: Gerhard Bassler

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Vikings to U-Boats

The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador

By: Gerhard Bassler

The first German arrived in Newfoundland with Leif Eirikson's Viking expedition. By 1914 St. John's was home to a vibrant German community while a Moravian enclave thrived in Labrador. Contemporary Newfoundland, however, remembers its German heritage largely in terms of U-Boat captains and local spies. Gerhard Bassler reveals what was lost when almost all earlier memories of Germans in Newfoundland and Labrador vanished.

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0773577092

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Vikings to U-Boats

Vikings to U-Boats

Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival

Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival

Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens

Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens

Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival

Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival

Vikings to U-Boats

Vikings to U-Boats

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