DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-L Archives

Archiver > DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES > 2008-04 > 1207249779


From: "Nick Tullius" <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH] social clubs - Canada
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:09:39 -0400
In-Reply-To: <002001c89595$1f17ac50$6401a8c0@angelo>


In all settlement periods, German immigrants to North America (USA &
Canada) generally either joined existing clubs, or they established new
ones. Some of these clubs or associations were religion-based; others
were not. Some associations united all Germans, whether they came from
Germany proper or from other regions of German settlement (Banat,
Batschka, Russia, Volhynia, and many others). Other clubs were more
narrowly defined (Danube-Swabian clubs; Transylvania Saxon clubs;
Lieblinger clubs, etc).

Many associations did not survive the anti-German campaigns associated
with both world wars; others survived and provided post-war help to
their countrymen in need.

In Canada, Danube-Swabian clubs were established as follows: In Montreal
(1929); in Kingsville ON (1930); in Niagara Falls ON (1934); in
Kitchener ON (1934); and in Windsor ON (1935). [ON = Canadian Province
of Ontario].

In Eastern Canada, the following were active in 1992 (and many have
websites today):

Teutonia Club Windsor;
Parish of St.Michael, Windsor;
Rhine-Danube Club Leamington;
Niagara German-Canadian Club;
Kitchener Schwabenclub;
Alliance of Danube Swabians, Toronto;
St. Michaelswerk Toronto;
Danube Swabian Park Waldheim;
Donau-Deukania Montreal.

An umbrella organization called Trans-Canada Alliance of German-Canadian
(TCA) existed from 1952 to the late seventies. Its successor is the
German-Canadian Congress (GCC) established in 1984. In 1994 the GCC had
branches in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia, plus some 550 member
organizations across Canada (130 churches, 100 German-language schools,
20 senior citizens' homes, plus art associations, museums, theatres, and
credit unions, etc. including Mennonites and Hutterites).

Like in the USA, there were many German-language newspapers in Canada,
as German-speakers were the third largest ethnic group in Canada (after
English and French)...

Best regards,
Nick Tullius
www.dvhh.org.com/alexanderhausen


-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Beth
Tolfree
Sent: April 3, 2008 10:15 AM
To: Robin Grube;
Subject: Re: [DVHH] social clubs

Hello, Robin:

The DVHH has a good list of Donauschwaben clubs in the U.S. here:
http://www.dvhh.org/network/ds_worldwide/usa_organizations.htm
and the Detroit, MI group is called the Carpathia Club.

My grandparents immigrated to Saginaw, MI in 1910. Many others from
Apatin
in the Batschka had settled there by then.
Immigrants had to have someone sponsoring their immigration, a relative
or
someone they knew most
likely from their home village. In my grandparents' case it was my
grandmother's brother-in-law.

My grandfather was one of the founding members (in the 1920's) of the
Washington Society Club,
in Saginaw. It was a social club for German-Hungarians. The first
meetings were in my grandparents' basement until property was purchased
and
the clubhouse built.

The Apatin Heimatblatter is a newsletter that I believe is still
published
which kept people informed
and in touch. I'm sure there were/are many other such publications in
other
communities.

Last year the DVHH participated with the Landesverband der
Donauschwaben,
USA in a big gathering
of DS clubs from all across the US and Canada. You can read about this
exciting gathering here:
http://www.dvhh.org/network/tag_der_ds_2007/index.htm
This year's event is in Cleveland and promises to be even bigger.

Just knowing some of my grandparents' experiences I expect that many DS
settled in the same neighborhoods, attended the same churches, and
formed
club and societies where they could
gather, help each other and share experiences.

Beth Tolfree
http://www.dvhh.org/abthausen/







----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Grube" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:42 AM
Subject: [DVHH] social clubs


>I have often wondered how recent immigrants in the US(1900-1930)
connected
> with fellow DS, sometimes leading to marriage. Were there clubs,
boarding
> houses, newspapers for "Germans"? In particular, I'm wondering about
> Detroit, Mich. But I have seen some copies of the calendars printed in
the
> 30s of Hungarian-Germans which listed families, and where they came
from
> before. Many of these families ended up in Ohio cities. Were they
> connected
> only by work in the big factories, or did they have special churches,
> clubs,
> etc where they could meet each other? Robin
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> "Niederschrift"
> -record, transcript-
>
> ---------------------------------------
> "niederer Adel"
> -gentry -
> --- -----------------------------------
> -------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
> with the word
'unsubscribe'
> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
>
>
> --
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG.
> Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.1/1350 - Release Date:
3/30/2008
> 12:32 PM
>
>




---------------------------------------
"Niederschrift"
-record, transcript-

---------------------------------------
"niederer Adel"
-gentry -
--- -----------------------------------
-------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
with the word 'unsubscribe'
without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This thread: