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Immigration
Let's Go Dutch
Taste the legendary flavours of Dutch chocolate, pudding and pastry. Delight in the wonderful stories and recipes surrounding the Feast of Saint Nicholas, Christmas and New Year’s ...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
Four Years till Tomorrow
Despair and Hope in Wartime Dutch East Indies
The surrender of the Japanese in South East Asia on August 15th, 1945 was for Dutch civilian camp internees only the beginning of yet another period of upheaval, hostilities and pe...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
Dutch Immigrant Memoirs and Related Writings
This classic collection of mostly nineteenth-century, 114 first-person travel accounts and personal reminiscences by Dutch immigrant pioneers provides a unique perspective on the c...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
When Canada Was Home
The Story of Dutch Princess Margriet
What is the story behind all those tulip bulbs Princess Juliana gave to Ottawa, way back in the Fall of 1945? That's the annual gift that blossomed into full bloom as the enormousl...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
A Friend Among Enemies
The Incredible Story of Arie Van Mansum in the Holocaust
When the Nazis who had invaded the Netherlands in 1940, started deporting Dutch Jews eastwards in the Summer of 1942, Arie van Mansum, realizing these fellow citizens were in great...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
Freedom's Clothesline
Dutch citizens during World War II
The author who lived in the southern Dutch province of Limburg tells of her family’s struggles during the war years, interweaving it with stories of friends who offered at great ri...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
We Became Canadians
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a significant number of Canadian soldiers returned home to Canada to be followed by their brides, among whom were over a thousand Dutch ...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
Things We Couldn't Say
The true story of Berendina (Diet) Eman, a young Dutch woman who, with her fiance, Hein Sietsma, risked everything to rescue Jews imperiled by Nazi persecution in occupied Holland ...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Becoming Canadian
Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant
Thousands of Western European immigrants streamed into Canada after the Second World War, seeking refuge from the economic devastation of their homelands. Many wanted to assimilate...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Dissonant Worlds
Roger Vandersteene Among the CreeAmong the Cree
When “Steentje” arrived in the wilderness of northern Canada in 1946 as a Flemish missionary, he found an aboriginal spirituality that inspired his own poetic and artistic nature a...
USD 34.95 / CAD 27.95
Write Back Soon
Letters from Immigrants in America
This book attempts to provide some essential background for the correspondence by immigrants from the Netherlands, while allowing them to speak for themselves. Brinks was able to f...
USD 10.95 / CAD 13.95
Albertus C. Van Raalte
Dutch Leader and American Patriot
Published for the Holland (Michigan) sesquicentennial, the authors survey Van Raalte’s role and leadership of Secession-ists in the Netherlands, and later in the U.S.A. where they ...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Sir John's Diary
The Fun-Tome of the Opera
“A kaleidoscopic life story in engineering, opera, movies, operettas, television, conducting, stage directing and several other facets, written in an inimitable style.” - Het Binne...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
And The Swamp Flourished
The Bittersweet Story of Holland Marsh
Draining swamps and marshes, and controlling groundwater levels, it seems to come natural to Dutchmen! Throughout Europe they have reclaimed land this way, growing plentiful crops ...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
American Travels of a Dutch Hobo
In 1923, Dutch seaman Gerard Leeflang fell in love with America and soon was an illegal alien. He had become entranced with what he had seen of New York City. He jumped ship and ab...
USD 10.95 / CAD 14.95
From the Prairies With Hope
Among the scribes in the Dutch press who tried to generate interest in life in Canada, Aberson stands out with her columns that were noted for clarity, humour and poignancy. She qu...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Letters Written in Good Faith
The Early Years of the Dutch Norbertines in Wisconsin
A Dutch Roman Catholic missionary to Wisconsin Indians on furlough in the Netherlands, returned to work in 1848 with in tow a large group of mostly Brabant immigrants. These immigr...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Family, Church and Market
A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds, 1850 - 1930
In 1874, a group of nine hundred Mennonites migrated from Russia to the western plains of Canada and the United States, settling in and around Steinbach, Manitoba, and Jansen, Nebr...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
100 Years Ago
Dutch Immigration to Manitoba in 1893
A party of 68 men, women and children may be seen as the vanguard of subsequent Dutch emigration waves to Canada. Who were they and where did they go? This book gives many answers ...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
My 38 Years in America
Winnipeg became the first home in Canada to the DeVries brothers, Klaas and Reindert, who arrived in Canada from Jubbega-Schurega in 1892. Their lengthy letter home prompted the fi...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Dutch Immigration to North America
Twelve historians present their papers on thought provoking aspects of Dutch immigration to Canada and the U.S.A. This collection brings out some lesser known episodes in Dutch imm...
USD 12.95 / CAD 17.95
They Farmed Well
The Dutch-Canadian Agricultural Community in Nova Scotia, 1945-1995
A son of Dutch immigrant farmer parents, the author traces the settlement of Dutch farmers in Nova Scotia after World War II and the contribution they made to this Maritime provinc...
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
Silent Ethnicity
The Dutch of New Brunswick
In this fascinating book, the author - a Professor of Sociology - relates that the Dutch arrived in what became New Brunswick in 1674, and for three years maintained control over t...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
The Scholten Story
Losing track of their family’s roots should no longer be a concern to the (large) Scholten clan of New Brunswick, Canada. Novelist Curtis weaves a compelling narrative of this hard...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Inheritance Preserved
The Canadian Reformed Churches in Historical Perspective
The Canadian Reformed Churches and Free Reformed Churches of Australia in Historical Perspective. This book describes the origin and early decades of these church federations in t...
USD 17.95 / CAD 21.95
Flourishing in the Land
A Hundred Year History of Christian Reformed Missions in North America
The chronicle of the story of the Christian Reformed Church’s ongoing efforts to present the Gospel to an ever-changing North American society. Written in recognition of the CRC’s ...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley
The Life and Letters of Ulbe Eringa, 1866-1950
The letters Dutch immigrant Ulbe Eringa wrote home from the United States are rich with information on the family, the household economy, church activities, and school involvement....
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Summoning Up Remembrance
Henry Stob’s career as a highly respected (now emeritus) professor of philosophical and moral theology was undergirded by an intriguing and unusually eventful public and private li...
USD 12.95 / CAD 16.95
The Curse of Urumbu
The story of Dutch immigrant Jack Westerbaan is fast-moving and exciting. A cowhand in Australia, he abandons his Christian faith. At some point he decides to retrace his roots but...
USD 8.95 / CAD 10.95
Anak, the Eskimo Boy
Anak and his family live with their tribe in the Far North. The book describes their everyday life as they hunt for seals, caribou and walruses. Anak is being prepared to take up h...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
A Stranger in a Strange Land
‘The Banner of Truth’: This is a delightful book. It tells the story of H.P. Scholte, a preacher in the Netherlands, who, being persecuted for his faith in his own country, emigrat...
USD 8.95 / CAD 11.95
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Correspondence (1647-1653)
New Netherland Document Series
Volume XI of the Dutch Colonial Manuscripts comprises the correspondence of Petrus Stuyvesant from 1647 to 1653. It represents the first six years of his seventeen-year tenure as d...
USD 74.95 / CAD 99.95
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Council Minutes (1652-1654) Volume V
New York Historical Manuscripts. Records translated from the Dutch language have added a new dimension to early American history. This book is one of a series by the New Netherlan...
USD 39.95 / CAD 55.95
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The Dongan Papers (1683-1688)
Admiralty Court and Other Records of the Administration of New York Governor Thomas Dongan
New York Historical Manuscripts. Records translated from the Dutch language have added a new dimension to early American history. This book is one of a series by the New Netherlan...
USD 55.95 / CAD 78.95
Meeting Each Other In Doctrine, Literature and Government
This popular study of church history tells how the RCA adapted itself to the new order of society in the aftermath of the American Revolution. In 1793 the RCA recast its old Dutch ...
USD 12.95 / CAD 17.95
Gathered at Albany - A History of a Classis
A superbly researched volume that tells the story of the RCA Classis of Albany, New York, from its beginning in 1771 up to 1979, Janssen’s account of this historically significant ...
USD 9.95 / CAD 13.95
A Journey Into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635
The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert. This edition of the earliest account of Iroquis culture includes scholarly notes on the historical context of New Netherland and ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 23.95
Ecumenism and the Reformed Church
The book offers insight in the conflicting signals regarding ecumenism in the communion of the Reformed Church in America. On the one hand it seems very interested in unity with ot...
USD 10.95 / CAD 15.95
Pioneers in the Arab World
This first-person account of the author’s forty years in the RCA mission to the Arabic world reveals much of the significance of the missionary movement, both for the world and for...
USD 15.95 / CAD 21.95
Piety and Patriotism
1776-1976
Eight essays exploring the interaction of the RCA with American culture, each corresponding to an important area of American experience: the Revolutionary War, frontier expansion, ...
USD 7.95 / CAD 10.95
The Dutch Reformed Church in the American Colonies
A carefully researched history of the RCA from 1628 to 1776, which covers the church’s relation Indians and blacks, internal discord and controversy, and the Americanization of the...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
From Strength to Strength
A History of Northwestern 1882-1982
Premier RCA historian De Jong traces the history of Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, a Dutch community founded in 1870, from its beginnings as an academy in 1882 to the p...
USD 11.95 / CAD 15.95
B.D. A Biography of My Father
Dykstra’s loving but honest portrait of his father, B.D. Dykstra, a RCA minister who was also a scholar, dynamic preacher, author, newspaper editor, pacifist, and the ‘man on the b...
USD 8.95 / CAD 11.95
Mr. Turkey
A biography of Bil Mar Foods co-founder Marvin DeWitt
The story of Zeeland, Michigan born entrepreneur Marvin DeWitt and his brother Bill is one of sheer determination, and of turning handicaps into business opportunities. From a hand...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
Paper Folding Fantasies
A teaching tool for primary grades
The author, a kindergarten teacher trained in the Netherlands, discovered paper folding as an excellent teaching tool for children in the primary grades. At her workshops she intro...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
The Greater Vancouver Book
An Urban Encyclopaedia
The ultimate resource book on this metropolitan district on Canada's West coast. Includes hundreds of thumbnail sketches on local ethnic communities, groups, societies, local distr...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
A Stolen Life
Searching for Richard Pierpoint
Love for local history put two sons of a Fergus, Ontario, Dutch-Canadian immigrant couple on the obscure trail of an African-American loyalist and the role of blacks in the War of ...
USD 13.95 / CAD 17.95
Americanization of a Congregation
A Historical Series of the Reformed Churches In America - No. 26 - Second Edition
This engaging history of the Third Reformed Church (RCA) of Holland, Michigan, chronicles the events of twenty-five years of change since its first edition was published for the ch...
USD 15.95 / CAD 22.95
Two Centuries Plus
The noted author, preacher, and president of RCA’s New Brunswick Theological Seminary tells the story of American Protestantism’s oldest theological seminary on the occasion of its...
USD 11.95 / CAD 16.95
The Colonizers
Early European Settlers and the Shaping of North America
From Champlain’s daring voyages through Canada to the pious settlements of the Pilgrims and Puritans, from the commercial enterprises of Dutch New Amsterdam to the plantation socie...
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
The Padre
This is the inspiring story of a remarkable chaplain, who as a “front-line” soldier for nearly three years served with the Irish Regiment of Canada, in England, Italy and the Nethe...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
Broken Shackles
Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom
This very unique book, the recollection of an African American known as Old Man Henson, is one of the very few that documents the journey to Canada from the perspective of a forme...
USD 19.95 / CAD 22.95
Roots & Branches - Hardcover
St. Willibrord Community Credit Union; The first 50 years
Life without banking. That is what thousands of Dutch immigrants experienced before they arrived in Canada in the late 1940s and early 50s. Most of them had few financial assets, m...
USD 22.95 / CAD 27.95
Our School
Calvin College and the Christian Reformed Church
The history of Calvin College is a fascinating one. The school's rise to prominence on the landscape of Christian higher education has been accompanied by important milestones in i...
USD 14.95 / CAD 20.95
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Deacons' Accounts (1652-1674)
First Dutch Reformed Church of Beverwijck / Albany
The information presented in this book has been translated from old records originally written in the Dutch language. It provides a detailed but rare glimpse into financial dealing...
USD 27.95 / CAD 32.95
Family Quarrels in the Dutch Reformed Churches in the 19th Century
The history of the Dutch community in North America is closely tied to and heavily influenced by developments in the Reformed churches in the Netherlands and in North America. The ...
USD 19.95 / CAD 25.95
Die van ons
The Brabant saying of 'Die van ons...' (the English term ‘our people’ does not fully express it) already suggests a measure of pride, and respect, for the sons and daughters whose ...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Netherlanders in America
A Study of Emigration and Settlement in the 19th & 20th Centuries in the United States of America
The first general study of 19th Century Dutch presence in the U.S.A. after some 90 years still rates as one of the very best. A social geography and history teacher in the Netherla...
USD 34.95 / CAD 44.95
Companion To All Our Children
A companion index was compiled for the 512-page volume to make it accessible for anyone using it for immigration research purposes. The index includes the names of people, places a...
USD 6.95 / CAD 8.95
Tabinta
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
SOLD OUT - This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great commemorative gift, especially for anniversaries of an immigration date, immigration reunions and famil...
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Phoenix, The Fateful Journey
Tragedy, Survival and Heroism
Immigrating to America involved a perilous trip across the Atlantic. That inland travel could be extremely dangerous is aptly described in John Textor’s well-researched historical ...
USD 24.95 / CAD 29.95
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Zuiderkruis (ship model)
and sister ships Groote Beer / Waterman
These three made Dutch immigrant history by sailing to Australia and Canada and New Zealand! All three ships are 1944 Portland, Oregon-built convertible war-effort Victory class ve...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
De opstand kwam uit de Bergen
Een episode uit de strijd der Hugenoten De oorlog in de Cevennen (1702-1710)
A significant number of Dutch people are aware of their French Huguenot ancestry through one or more family lineages. They often only know in general terms why these French ancesto...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Dutch Chicago
A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City
The story of the Dutch in Chicago until now largely has been below the radarscreen of historians. The dean of Dutch American historians in his latest book has lifted the veil on an...
USD 49.95 / CAD 64.95
An Amicable Friendship
Een Aengenaeme Vrientschap
What is known about the representatives of the Netherlands in early Canada? Very little! This book fills that void and more. It rates as one of the best researched books of the Dut...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
People in Transition
Reflections on Becoming Canadian
People in Transition is a poignant collection of personal accounts and frank deliberation on what it means to leave one's country of origin and start anew in this diverse and vibra...
USD 21.95 / CAD 28.95
Pier 21
An Illustrated History of Canada's Gateway
This extraordinary collection of historical photographs and informative text tells the story of one of Canada's most important National Historic Sites: Pier 21 on the Halifax water...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
Pier 21 - The Gateway that Changed Canada
Pier 21 in Halifax served for years as the front door to Canada, the entryway through which more than a million immigrants, including tens of thousands of Dutch newcomers passed. T...
USD 13.95 / CAD 17.95
Justice Achieved
The Political Struggle of Independent Schools in British Columbia
Since 1966, the Federation of Independent Schools (FISA) has voiced the need for freedom of choice in education and for educational diversity, then a radical notion. Public opinion...
USD 27.95 / CAD 34.95
Floral Passion
An explosion of colour and heartwarming stories
This coffee-table format features a collection of heart-warming stories and stunning photographs. Floral Passion describes a thriving floral industry and recounts the lives of the ...
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
Sporen van verplaatsing
Honderd jaar nieuwkomers in Overijssel
Trodden paths of migration, these can be traced in landscapes, in lives of people, in society. The author searched the archives of Overijssel for such traces and discovered materia...
USD 12.95 / CAD 14.95
A History of Dordt College
the B.J. Haan Years
The book traces the early history of Dordt College from its beginnings with the closing of Iowa's Grundy College in 1934 through the retirement of Dordt's first president, Rev. B.J...
USD 10.95 / CAD 14.95
A Trimaran Sails the Seven Seas
A former radio-officer in the Dutch Merchant Navy, the author studied celestial navigation in Canada before becoming a Commander with an Ontario Sail Squadron. The Master Mariner b...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Groote Beer
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
NOW SOLD OUT - This exclusive Delft blue-style wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. The Groote Beer, the Wate...
USD 0.00 / CAD 0.00
Volendam I
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
SOLD OUT! This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great commemorative gift, especially for anniversaries of an immigration date, immigration reunions and family...
USD 0.00 / CAD 0.00
Waterman
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
SOLD OUT - This exclusive Delft blue-style plaque make a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. Originally a freighter, the Waterma...
USD 0.00 / CAD 0.00
Zuiderkruis
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
NOW SOLD OUT - This exclusive Delft blue-style wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. Built in 1944 as a WWII c...
USD 0.00 / CAD 0.00
Maasdam IV
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
SOLD OUT - Ceramic wall plaque Delft blue-style tiles make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. A sister ship of the Ryndam, bot...
USD 0.00 / CAD 0.00
Historical Directory of the Christian Reformed Church
This is the first single directory of historical information of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA), a denomination of 280,000 members with congregations in the ...
USD 19.95 / CAD 26.95
Sabelis Symphony
Exploration is part of the inevitable process that dominates the work of artists. It takes on a much broader scope when this exploration involves more than one culture. It becomes ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
Pillar Church in the Van Raalte Era
Immigration is often a story of trials and triumphs. Leaving one's country of birth and family, and all that is dear and familiar is painful. Trying to build a new future in a new ...
USD 12.95 / CAD 17.95
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Across the Atlantic (VHS)
Between 1928 and 1971, 3.8 million people worldwide immigrated to Canada. The majority of European immigrants landed at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Among them were many from t...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
The Island at the Center of the World
The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making ...
USD 17.95 / CAD 23.95
American Railroads in the Nineteenth Century
Railroads in the U.S. were the Internet of the 19th century. The whole country opened up. Industry exploded. Numerous fortunes were made, lost, and sometimes made again, and includ...
USD 57.95 / CAD 69.95
Slow Train to Paradise
How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads
Railroad historians have long been aware of Dutch investment in the building of American railroads, but until this book it has not been known how massive this investment was. This ...
USD 34.95 / CAD 42.95
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The Reformed Church in Dutch Brazil (1630-1654)
This book describes the history of a 17th century Reformed Church in Latin America. After a general introduction to Dutch Brazil (1630-1654), the author analyzes the church as to h...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Equipping the Saints
The Synod of New York, 1800–2000
A team of pastors and scholars of the Reformed Church in America (RCA) recounts the engaging story of the (regional) Synod of New York during the past two centuries, North America’...
USD 16.95 / CAD 22.95
Forerunner of the Great Awakening
Sermons by Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691–1747)
This work of historical interest introduces the life and sermons of Theodore Frelinghuysen, one of the most important precursors of the Great Awakening in the USA and a preacher of...
USD 28.95 / CAD 38.95
From Mission to Church
The Reformed Church in America Mission to India
In the nineteenth century, the Scudders went to India with the avowed intention to confine their efforts to evangelistic preaching. By the time the Reformed Church in America (RCA)...
USD 39.95 / CAD 47.95
By Grace Alone
Stories of the Reformed Church in America
The exciting and hope-filled story of the Reformed Church in America (RCA), tracing its origin to Europe, with a brief history of the church out of which the Reformation grew. The ...
USD 31.95 / CAD 38.95
Doctors for the Kingdom
The Work of the American Mission Hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The book tells the amazing yet little-known story of the medical mission of the Reformed Church in America (RCA) in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. By piecing together archival record...
USD 36.95 / CAD 49.95
Cruel Paradise
Life Stories of Dutch Emigrants
This book deftly weaves together the firsthand stories of men and women who emigrated from the northern region of the Netherlands throughout the twentieth century. A skilled stylis...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Indian Affairs in Colonial New York
The Seventeenth Century
This book is a classic in the study of Indian-European relations in seventeenth-century New York. First published in 1960, it remains the only one-volume history to explore these c...
USD 16.95 / CAD 23.95
A Bloom of Friendship
The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival
Every spring, Canada’s capital, Ottawa, bursts into colour with hundreds of thousands of tulip blooms. These represent the token of appreciation of the Dutch Royal family for the c...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Where is Here
An Immigration Story
"Our journey to Canada began on a chilly, dark morning. We stood in front of our house as Dad pulled the door shut for the last time…" The author, then barely in his teens, reflect...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Holland Mania
The Dutch Period in American Art - A fascinating and idiosyncratic work of art history.
Holland Mania describes a curious and now little-known era in American cultural history. During this period, 1880-1920, old Dutch master paintings and Dutch antiques moved into Ame...
USD 41.95 / CAD 49.95
Veneklasen Brick
A Family, a Company, and a Unique Nineteenth-Century Dutch Architectual Movement in Michigan
In 1848, the second year of the new Dutch kolonie in West Michigan’s Ottawa County, a much-needed brick manufacturing industry was started in the rich clay fields between the villa...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Roots & Branches - Paperback
St. Willibrord Community Credit Union; The first 50 years
Life without banking. That is what thousands of Dutch immigrants experienced before they arrived in Canada in the late 1940s and early 50s. Most of them had few financial assets, m...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
The Dramas of Hospital Life
All the dramas we read about in this book make us aware of the patient’s challenges when submitted to a hospital. The author as a practical nurse was in the frontline, aiding peopl...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
The Dongan Papers, 1683-1688, Part II
Files of the Provincial Secretary of New York During the Administration of Governor
This volume makes available critical documents from a period of time when the Dutch played a major role in building the New World. The documents cover a number of topics, including...
USD 74.95 / CAD 99.95
Council Minutes, 1655-1656
This volume of New Netherland documents makes critical material available from a period of time when the Dutch played a major role in building the New World. Included are a histori...
USD 74.95 / CAD 99.95
Taking the Jesus Road
The Ministry of the Reformed Church in America Among Native Americans
In this frank, well-balanced account of the RCA’s Native American missions and churches, LeRoy Koopman recounts the joys of the “Jesus Road” shared by Reformed and Native American ...
USD 39.95 / CAD 49.95
Family Kinship and Community
A study of Dutch Canadians, a developmental approach
This 1970s study attempts to trace the social and political culture of the Dutch Canadian in the Holland Marsh area (North of Toronto, for decades the vegetable garden of Ontario)....
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
The first Dutch settlement in Alberta
Letters from the Pioneers Years 1903-1914
Translated for the first time from Dutch to English, this collection of letters offers a unique perspective on the early pioneer years of the Dutch community in southern Alberta. T...
USD 27.95 / CAD 34.95
Over Zee- en Hollanders
Het succesverhaal van Nederlandse emigranten in West-Michigan
“Your ancestors had a very hard job to do, but how well they did it.” Dutch Princess Margriet summed it all up when she attended the 150th anniversary of the Dutch colonies in Mich...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
Mona Parsons
From privilege to prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe
Even as a young girl growing up in small town Nova Scotia, Mona Parsons stood out for her elegance, self-confidence, and theatrical flair.But the life of this Wolfville n...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Frontiers and Sanctuaries
A Woman's life in Holland and Canada
The story of the challenges of women in the twentieth century told through the life of Madzy Brender a Brandis by her daughter Marianne. Madzy (1910-1984) had experienced war, immi...
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
Son of Secession
Douwe J. Vander Werp
The book challenges the understanding of the historical origins of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) as well as the church today. The author has written a movi...
USD 32.95 / CAD 49.95
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Oranje (ship model)
Immigrant history in the making! Build your popular immigrant ship model - scale of 1:250 - from a 12-page single-sided cardboard model kit in book form. Additionally, the coffee-t...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Wings of Change
A Dutch Immigrant's Journey
Wings of Change is a story about becoming; it is about becoming American, becoming a parent, and embracing life with exuberance. It is a memoir about one woman's experience emigrat...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Rembrandt's Jews
With so many of Rembrandt's paintings devoted to stories of the Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Biblical themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wo...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Thuis in de jaren '50
Dagelijks leven in een gemoedelijke tijd
At the time the Dutch pulled up stakes to head across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, most of them relied on memories to picture what they left behind. Taking pictures then wa...
USD 18.95 / CAD 23.95
The Templars
Laying a legend to rest
The history of the secretive Roman Catholic Order of the Temple remains a fascinating one to many people. For a couple of centuries, the monk-soldiers of the order fought in the Mi...
USD 21.95 / CAD 29.95
A Long Labour
A Dutch Mother’s Holocaust Memoir
In this unusual memoir, the author presents a Jewish mother’s view of life in the Netherlands during the WWII Nazi occupation. The book covers a period that ranges from the author’...
USD 20.95 / CAD 27.95
Visions of Savage Paradise
Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil, 1637-1644
This book is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to colonia...
USD 55.95 / CAD 69.95
Henry J. Kuiper
Shaping the Christian Reformed Church, 1907–1962
This singular biographical study will interest readers wanting to better understand the Christian Reformed Church during the first six decades of the twentieth century, particularl...
USD 27.95 / CAD 36.95
Tangled in Time
The author presents a captivating story of a young girl's travel in time back to the harsh realities of the Depression years. The book opens with Janna's world being turned upside ...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
Distant Kin
Dutch-Canadian Stories and Poems
Significant and worth reading for several reasons. As the work of first- and second-generation Dutch immigrants to Canada, they bring a new dimension to the already considerable bo...
USD 5.95 / CAD 7.95
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The Andros Papers (1674-1676)
New York Historical Manuscripts. Records translated from the Dutch language have added a new dimension to early American history. This book is one of a series by the New Netherlan...
USD 74.95 / CAD 99.95
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The Andros Papers (1677-1678)
New York Historical Manuscripts. Records translated from the Dutch language have added a new dimension to early American history. This book is one of a series by the New Netherlan...
USD 74.95 / CAD 99.95
In Pursuit of Justice
So Far, So Good - The first 50 years of the Christian Labour Association of Canada, 1952-2002
In 1952, when tens of thousands of Dutch immigrants were settling into a new ways of life in Canada, they met a labour relations scene that was chaotic and very undemocratic. Only ...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920
In this deftly researched ethnographic portrait, the author skillfully adapts the concept of social reproduction to examine the shifting gender roles of tens of thousands of Dutch ...
USD 44.95 / CAD 53.95
The Immigrant Threat
The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850
Common threads in the long-term integration experience of migrants, past and present. Since the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse has shifted away from the "colour" of immigrants to ...
USD 25.95 / CAD 36.95
The Social World of Batavia
Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia, Second Edition
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Java site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the n...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Missionaries among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot
The Van Tighem Brothers Diaries, Alberta 1876-1917
This volume contains the transcribed diaries of brothers Leonard and Victor Van Tighem, Flemish Roman Catholic missionaries in Alberta between 1874 and 1917. Leonard, an Oblate pri...
USD 44.95 / CAD 35.95
The Little Coat
The Bob and Sue Elliott Story
A young girl's memories of the war! Sussie Cretier was only 10 when she met Bob Elliott, a Canadian soldier assigned to help protect her region of the Netherlands from the invading...
USD 14.95 / CAD 18.95
Footsteps and Fingerprints
The Legacy of a Shared History
Over 400 years ago, the United Republic of the Dutch province made contacts in every cormer of the globe upon which they built their economic structure. Many of the centuries-old r...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
De Meelstreep
Terugkeer en opvang na de Tweede Wereldoorlog
What was coming home like to exiles, 'colonials', deportees and concentration camp survivors? A royal welcome for them too? This book starts of with the Dutch royal family and then...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Hamel's World
A Dutch-Korean Encounter in the Seventeenth Century
In 1653 the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) ship Sperwer was shipwrecked on the rocks off a remote Korean island. Thirty-six men of the crew survived the ordeal. The king of Korea ...
USD 17.95 / CAD 24.95
En nog steeds hebben wij twee vaderlanden
Op avontuur in Nederlands-Indië
Roots in the Dutch East Indies and searching for context to your family history? You may want to read this book. Before 1940, Amsterdam residents in search for a job could just as ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Het Groene Hart
The so-called 'Green Heart of the Netherlands' is a tranquil landscape with many surprises, has an expansive landscape and is home to many historic villages and cities. The authors...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Journal of a Dutch Immigrant
Francis travelled from Andijk, the Netherlands to Canada on the troop ship, the Kota Inten in April of 1948. His first job was at his uncle's small ranch in Houston B.C. where he w...
USD 15.95 / CAD 21.95
Prairie Christian Schools
an eventful journey
Reformed Christian immigrants from the Netherlands pioneered Christian education in nearly every country they settled, frequently founding schools even before they had purchased th...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash
The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific waters as captain of a major expedition of discovery and imperial ambition. Britain had its eyes on Pacific North America, an...
USD 17.95 / CAD 22.95
Memoirs of an Indo Woman
Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad
This book provides an overview of practically the whole of the twentieth century as experienced by persons of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry who called the former Dutch East I...
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
Pier 21 Listen to My Story
Discover some of the most important moments of Canada's history by getting to know the children and their families who arrived at Halifax's Pier 21. From countries as far away as E...
USD 12.95 / CAD 15.95
An Eerdmans Century, 1911-2011
Engaging saga of an American independent religious publisher's first 100 years
From ten-cent specials for Reformed Christian farmers in the Dutch language in the 1920s to over 1,000 titles currently in print, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in Grand Ra...
USD 19.95 / CAD 26.95
Transatlantic Pieties
Dutch Clergy in Colonial America
In their book, the authors explore the ways in which the lives and careers of fourteen Dutch Reformed ministers illuminate important aspects of European and American colonial socie...
USD 34.95 / CAD 49.95
The Fehrs
Four centuries of Mennonite Migration
This book is 'it' for anyone interested in the history of the Mennonite community and its Dutch roots. It is widely known that the community is named after the Dutch/Frisian church...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Waves of Mercy
Haunted by the Unknowns of Their Pasts, Two Women Search for Answers Along the Shores of Lake Michigan, in the Dutch immigrant settlement of Holland. Chicago socialite Anna Nich...
USD 15.95 / CAD 21.95
The Truth About Who We Are
Letter to My Grandchildren
As his forty-year career in ministry comes to an end, Douglas Brouwer finds himself wondering about one of the oldest questions there is: who am I? To find his true identity, Brouw...
USD 13.95 / CAD 17.95
From Rotterdam to Vught to Vancouver
A Dutch Immigrant family's journey from the ravages of concentration Camp 'Vught' to Beautiful British Columbia
This is a book about certain events in Nazi occupied the Netherlands (1940-1945), written by the daughter of a couple who served in the Dutch resistance, pushing back against the W...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Legacy of Mercy
She knew her new life would not be easy, but nothing could prepare her for what waits ahead. Having returned to Chicago from Holland, Michigan, young socialite Anna Nicholson can't...
USD 15.95 / CAD 21.95
A Furrow Laid Bare
The bittersweet story of a small, but very unique, Dutch Canadian farmer's community, located North West of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. Founded in 1912, in an isolated and hard-to...
USD 79.95 / CAD 89.95
99 dollar sale
Dutch (Immigrant) Heritage Sale. Valid April-May 2023
Up to a weight of 5KG or a $99 retail value of titles on Dutch immigrant history and related Netherlandic subjects, including such titles as To All Our Children, Floral Passion and...
USD 99.00 / CAD 99.00
Lest We Forget
A Dutch-Jewish family’s thriller-true story of Nazi persecution and survival in the Netherlands during WWII. Mandy and her younger sister lived with various Dutch families in the c...
USD 24.95 / CAD 29.95
Leaving Home Forever
Were they the reconnaissance men sent to ‘spy’ out Canada for the settlement of Dutch labourers? Klaas and Reindert de Vries, two young bachelor brothers from poverty stricken Jubb...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
To All Our Children
The Story of Postwar Dutch Immigration to Canada
This large coffee-table book is back in print. To All Our Children describes in extensive detail the process of wanting to leave one's home and extended family so soon follo...
USD 35.95 / CAD 44.95