id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_mjwz2epqcjfr7olqvqvclt6lnq Edmund Heier A study of the German Lutheran and Catholic immigrants in Canada, formerly residing in Tzarist and Soviet Russia 1955 217 .pdf application/pdf 64551 11475 90 After Empress Katherine II of Russia issued a Manifesto i n 1763, inviting European settlers to Russia, a substantial number of Germans immigrated and settled, with to Russia, which resulted in the foundation of numerous German settlements i n the Black Sea region. amongst the German settlers soon made a land shortage apparent with the result that sister colonies were founded i n This dissertation i s an attempt to present the history of the German Lutheran and Catholic immigrants in Canada who had formerly resided i n Tzarist and Soviet Russia. German settlements i n the Black Sea region in I896, i.e. giving them Russian..namesdo reveal a definite policy directed toward Russification of the settlers. The foundation of the colonies i n the North Caucasus followed the year I860, when Black Sea and Volga Germans New colonies were not founded by Russian-Germans between the wars as some of the immigrants were directed to the ./cache/work_mjwz2epqcjfr7olqvqvclt6lnq.pdf ./txt/work_mjwz2epqcjfr7olqvqvclt6lnq.txt