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The Attraction
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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
Montreal
Danube Swabian Surname Registry
Photos
Memories of Montreal, remembered by our
Donauschwaben
Articles &
Translations
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]
