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Immigration
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 32.95 / CAD 32.95
Pirates and Engineers
Dutch and Flemish Adventurers in New Spain,1607-1697in New Spain, 1607 - 1697
In the great age of European Expansion, Dutch and Flemish adventurers appeared in some unexpected places. This book contains long-lost accounts of several who penetrated Colonial M...
USD 11.95 / CAD 11.95
Sack of Veracruz
The Great Pirate Raid of 1683
On the night of May 17, 1683, a party of several hundred French, Dutch and British pirates stole ashore near the Mexican port of Veracruz, while its citizens peacefully slept. The ...
USD 11.95 / CAD 11.95
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 15.95 / CAD 15.95
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 19.95 / 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 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 13.95 / CAD 13.95
A.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 29.95
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 19.95 / CAD 19.95
The Dutch Touch in Ontario
A voluminous ‘coffee table’ book that profiles a selection of 200 Dutch immigrants, detailing their struggles to succeed and how they made a unique contribution to their community,...
USD 39.95 / CAD 39.95
Separation and Inheritance
The story of Jan and Aagje DeGroot
A Dutch-Canadian family’s post-World War II immigration years. It includes the struggle to survive Nazi occupation, harsh winters, and selfishness; the difficulty of moving away fr...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
And The Swamp Flourished
The Bittersweet Story of Holland Marsh
Draining swamps and marshes, and controlling groundwater levels, come natural to Dutchmen! Throughout Europe they have reclaimed land this way, growing plentiful crops where before...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Dutch American Voices
Letters from the United States, 1850 - 1930
Immigrant experiences of the 19th century are quite different from those of today. This book features letters from immigrants to their family in the Netherlands. The result is a fa...
USD 39.95 / CAD 39.95
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 14.95 / 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 24.95 / CAD 24.95
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 32.95 / CAD 32.95
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 25.95 / CAD 25.95
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 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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...
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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 17.95 / 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 16.95 / CAD 16.95
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 14.95 / CAD 14.95
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 29.95
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 27.95 / CAD 27.95
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 17.95 / CAD 17.95
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...
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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 7.95 / CAD 7.95
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The Andros Papers (1679-1680)
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 74.95
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CORRESPONDENCE (1647-1653)
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 74.95
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Laws and Writs of Appeal (1647-1663)
The laws reveal the legal thinking of the Dutch on such subjects as Indians, smuggling, trade and crime, as well as everyday problems of wages, fencing, land allocation, and the re...
USD 49.95 / CAD 49.95
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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 34.95 / CAD 34.95
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Minutes of the Mayor's Court of New York (1674-1675)
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 Netherla...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
Records of New Amsterdam from 1653-1674
From 1653 to 1674, 7 volumes
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 Netherla...
USD 235.00 / CAD 235.00
Books of General Entries of the Colony of New York 1674-1688
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 Netherla...
USD 59.95 / CAD 59.95
Administrative Papers of Governors
Richard Nicholls and Francis Lovelace, 1664-1673
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 Netherla...
USD 39.95 / CAD 39.95
Books of General Entries of the Colony of New York 1664-1673
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 Netherla...
USD 59.95 / CAD 59.95
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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 Netherla...
USD 55.95 / CAD 55.95
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 12.95
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 11.95 / CAD 11.95
A Journey Into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635
The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert....
USD 21.95 / CAD 21.95
In Mohawk Country
Early Narratives about a Native Peopleabout a Native People
Various narratives written by Dutch merchants, French Jesuit missionaries, English soldiers and other literate observers provide often biased but always fascinating accounts of the...
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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 7.95
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 12.95 / CAD 12.95
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 7.95 / CAD 7.95
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 19.95 / 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 19.95 / 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 39.95 / CAD 39.95
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 19.95 / CAD 19.95
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 of Holland, Michigan, chronicles the events of twenty-five years of change since its first edition was published for the church’s...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Delaware Papers
Dutch Period 1658-1664
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 49.95 / CAD 49.95
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 11.95
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 14.95 / CAD 14.95
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 14.95 / CAD 14.95
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 21.25 / CAD 21.95
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 27.75 / CAD 27.95
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 19.95
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 42.95 / CAD 42.95
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 75 years still rates as one of the very best. A social geography and history teacher in the Netherlands, ...
USD 39.95 / CAD 39.95
Tabinta
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great commemorative gift, especially for anniversaries of an immigration date, immigration reunions and family gathering...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Veendam II
Ceramic Wall Plaque
Delft blue-style tiles make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. Built in 1922-3 as a turbine steamer for the Holland America Li...
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Kota Inten
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great commemorative gift, especially for anniversaries of an immigration date, immigration reunions and family gathering...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Sibajak
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
These exclusive Delft blue-style plaques make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. Built in Antwerp in 1927-8 as a passenger shi...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
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 23.95 / CAD 23.95
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Zuiderkruis (ship model)
or sistership Groote Beer / Waterman
Immigrant history in the making! All three are 1944 Portland, Oregon-built Victory class vessels. Build your popular immigrant ship model - scale of 1:250 - from a 12-page single-s...
USD 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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 49.95
An Amicable Friendship
Een Aengenaeme Vrientschap
One of the best researched book of Dutch involved in early Canada when the land was opened and helped to be settled by Dutch immigrants. It in-cludes little known histories such as...
USD 27.75 / CAD 27.75
We Followed the Stars to Canada
A Dutch family finds a new homeland
Leaving Holland in search of a new homeland seems to be the Donkers family's best chance to realize their dreams. It is 1950 and World War Two has left Holland in devastation - the...
USD 11.95 / CAD 11.95
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 25.75 / CAD 25.75
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...
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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 16.95 / CAD 16.95
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 34.95 / CAD 34.95
Floral Passion
An explosion of colour and heartwarming stories
This book is a collection of heart-warming stories and stunning photographs. Floral Passion describes a thriving floral industry and recounts the lives of the immigrants, many of w...
USD 39.95 / CAD 39.95
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 9.95 / CAD 9.95
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 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Groote Beer
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. The Groote Beer, the Waterman and he Zui...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Volendam I
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great commemorative gift, especially for anniversaries of an immigration date, immigration reunions and family gathering...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Waterman
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style plaque make a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. Originally a freighter, the Waterman was conve...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Zuiderkruis
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
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 convertable frei...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Maasdam IV
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
Delft blue-style tiles make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. A sister ship of the Ryndam, both ships were the first two-clas...
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Ryndam II
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. The Ryndam II made its maiden v...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
DC4
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First trip from Schiphol to Mont...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Constellation
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to Mo...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Super Constellation
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makes a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to M...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
DC7
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to Mo...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
DC8
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to Mo...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Boeing 747
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight from Schiphol to Mo...
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DC10
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First flight with this KLM aircr...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Boeing 767
Dutch Heritage Ceramic Wall Plaque
This exclusive Delft blue-style ceramic wall plaque makea a great gift, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings. First KLM Boeing 767 flight from...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
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 34.95 / CAD 34.95
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 ...
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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 12.95
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Across The Atlantic (DVD)
(DVD)
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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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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 9.95 / 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 22.95 / CAD 22.95
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 51.95 / CAD 51.95
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 44.95 / CAD 44.95
Iowa Letters
Dutch Immigrants on the American Frontier
This captivating and very unique collection of 215 immigrant letters represents three distinct series, and has been gathered from sources on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. All a...
USD 49.95 / CAD 49.95
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 30.95 / CAD 30.95
Travels of an American Girl
The young author recounts her eventful 1938 journey from New York to England, France, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, the Arabian Gulf, and on into India. June Potter's exciting story of her...
USD 13.95 / CAD 13.95
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 49.95 / CAD 49.95
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 31.95
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 42.95 / CAD 42.95
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 22.95 / CAD 22.95
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 21.95 / CAD 21.95
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 18.95 / CAD 18.95
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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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 15.95
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 19.95
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 21.95 / CAD 21.95
Records of the Court of Assizes for the Colony of New York, 1665-1682
New York Historical Manuscripts, English,...
USD 44.95 / CAD 44.95
The Dongan Papers, 1683-1688, Part II
Files of the Provincial Secretary of New York During the Administration of Governor
USD 74.95 / CAD 74.95
The Leisler Papers, 1689-1691
Files of the Provincial Secretary of New York Relating to the Administration of Lt. Governor Jacob
USD 89.95 / CAD 89.95
Correspondence, 1654-1658, Volume XII of the Dutch Colonial Manuscripts
USD 74.95 / CAD 74.95
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 49.95 / CAD 49.95
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 34.95 / 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 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Queen Mary
Ceramic Wall Plaque
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Queen Elizabeth
Ceramic Wall Plaque
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Mauretania II
Ceramic Wall Plaque
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Aquitania
Ceramic Wall Plaque
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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 39.95 / CAD 39.95
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Sibajak (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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (ship model)
or sistership Marnix van Sint Aldegonde
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 29.95 / CAD 29.95
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 19.95
Uprooted
Dutch immigrant children in Canada 1947-1959
The author describes this book as a ‘collective autobiography’. It is an effort to tell not only her own story but also those of hundreds of other Dutch immigrant children. She tak...
USD 36.95 / CAD 36.95
Seven Seas
Ceramic Wall Plaque
Delft blue-style tiles make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings....
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Skaubryn
Ceramic Wall Plaque
Delft blue-style tiles make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings....
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Beaverbrae
Ceramic Wall Plaque
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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Ceramic Wall Plaque
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Nieuw Amsterdam II
Ceramic Wall Plaque
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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 23.95 / CAD 23.95
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 8.95 / CAD 8.95
Toen zij uit Rotterdam vertrokken
Emigratie via Rotterdam door de eeuwen heen
Among all the immigrants departing Rotterdam for America is the group departure of the Pilgrim Fathers likely the best known. Before, but also after that June 1620 departure, colon...
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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 9.95 / CAD 9.95
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The Fort Orange Court Minutes (1652-1660)
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 89.95 / CAD 89.95
Land Papers
Volumes GG, HH, & II
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...
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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 74.95
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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 74.95
Indonesian Dictionary & Phrase Book
This handy, 3,000-essential Indonesian words reference book can open the door to communicating with the 200 million people who live in the South Pacific archipelago country of Indo...
USD 13.95 / CAD 13.95
Alblasserdyk
Ceramic Plaque
Delft blue-style tiles make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings....
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The Occupied Garden
Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands
The authors, two Canadian born sisters, share in this book the powerful story of their grandparents, a Dutch market gardener and his very devout wife, who were living a simple life...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Thuis in de jaren '60
Dagelijks leven in een roerige tijd - Volume 1
The book covers a time most of the Dutch in North America missed, examining the decade between their 1950s departure and before their return visits of the 1970s started. Mostly a p...
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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 ...
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Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops
The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages
From Santa Claus (after the Dutch folklore saint Sinterklaas) and his sleigh (the pronunciation of the Dutch slee is almost identical) to a dumbhead (domkop) talking poppycock, the...
USD 32.95 / CAD 32.95
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 ...
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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 25.95
Thuis in de jaren 60 Volume 2
dagelijks leven in een roerige tijd
The book covers a time most of the Dutch in North America missed, examining the decade between their 1950s departure and before their return visits of the 1970s started. Mostly a p...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
Edam IV
Delft blue-style tiles make great gifts, specifically for immigration anniversaries, reunions and family gatherings....
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Leerdam II
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Oranje II
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Samaria
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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 32.95 / CAD 32.95
The Little Coat
The Bob and Sue Elliott Story
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 German army. Sussie’s family had en...
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Het Groene Hart
The Green Heart of the Netherlands, a tranquil landscape with many surprises, has expansive landscape with many historic villages and cities in and around it. The authors extol thi...
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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...
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Bittersweet
The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century
Millions of Chinese have left the mainland over the last two centuries in search of new beginnings. The majority went to Southeast Asian countries. The single largest destination w...
USD 28.95 / CAD 28.95
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...
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Freedom on the Horizon
Dutch Immigration to America, 1840–1940
“It’s been eighty years since the last comprehensive study of the Dutch immigrant experience by a Netherlands scholar — Jacob Van Hinte’s magisterial Netherlands in America (1928, ...
USD 30.95 / CAD 30.95
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 21.95 / CAD 21.95
The Windmill Herald - Farewell Issue
Commemorative publication. As soon the shock caused by the news that The Windmill Herald ™ would cease to publish in June 2012 had been digested, readers, advertisers, suppliers an...
USD 5.95 / CAD 5.95
The Windmill Herald - 1012 Back Copies Set
Following the announcement of The Windmill Herald’s exit, an interest has emerged in back issues. A set of 12 issues published in 2012, includes the Farewell Issue and the Dutch He...
USD 30.00 / CAD 30.00
The Windmill Herald - Archive Copies
The colourful centre pages spreads on Dutch history themes remain popular with many subscribers, their family, friends and even neighbours. A volume of 34 issues (covering 17 month...
USD 99.95 / CAD 99.95
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 32.95
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 15.95 / CAD 15.95
The American Diary of Jacob Van Hinte
This diary provides a look behind the pen of Dutch American life observer and writer Jacob Van Hinte who toured the United States extensively in 1921 for his dissertation Nederland...
USD 21.95 / CAD 21.95
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 19.95
Old Wing Mission
Cultural Interchange as Chronicled by George and Arvilla Smith in Their Work with Chief Wakazoo's Ottawa Band on the West Michigan Frontier
A historical treasure of rare documents, the book gives the account of the Reverend George N. Smith and his wife Arvilla in their work and social interactions (1838-1849) as missio...
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Envisioning Hope College
Letters written by Albertus C. Van Raalte to Phillip Phelps, Jr. 1857 to 1875
The correspondence between the Reformed Dutch immigrant colony's leader and the first president of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, is sequentially placed in its historical conte...
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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 34.95
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 bachelor brothers from poverty stricken Jubbega, F...
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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, making prepa...
USD 39.95 / CAD 39.95