German-Canadian Studies

Features

What They Can Teach Us: Stories from German-Canadian Women, 1950-1993

German-Canadian Studies presents a new online trilingual (English, German, French) interactive collection featuring edited transcripts of four oral history interviews. Created by Claudia Dueck and Sofia Bach with generous support from the University of Waterloo Centre for German Studies.

Immigrant Fathers and Sons – A New Research Project at GCS

Learn more about our new project where we use German immigrant fathers and their sons’ experiences as a case study to explore the broader history of Canadian father-son relations.

Fellowship Publications

Find out what our German-Canadian Studies Fellowship Recipients, Prize Winners, and Postdoctoral Researcher have published over the course of the Fellowship Program from 1997 to 2021 on the language, culture, and history of Germans in Canada

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The Chair in German-Canadian Studies was established in 1989 with a grant from the Secretary of State's Program for Canadian Ethnic Studies and with a grant from a group of private philanthropists within the German-Canadian community of Winnipeg.  It is affiliated with the History Department at the University of Winnipeg. The Chair promotes teaching and research in German-Canadian Studies, including the history and culture of Canadians of German origins. The Chair interacts with the German-Canadian community in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the rest of Canada through public lectures and social media. The Chair promotes excellence in regional, national, and international research through a series of conferences, grants, and publications.

German-Canadians are one of Canada’s largest ethnic groups. They live throughout the country with origins in Germany, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the United States of America, and other places.