“A large proportion of [Germans in Canada] speak English. This is not only because Germans assimilate fairly quickly but much more because our population has had large German elements in it from the beginning, such as the Lunenburgers of Nova Scotia, who came in 1753, or the numerous German United Empire Loyalists: it is foolish to think of the descendants of Cassellmans, Shavers or Merkeleys from the old counties of Eastern Ontario as anything other than Canadian.

“Germans who came in the nineteenth century are a little more easily distinguishable because they tended to settle in compact blocks as in Waterloo County, Ontario. But these old German districts are also today in nearly every important sense of the word, Canadian (a Lieutenant Governor of Ontario [Louis Orville Breithaupt], belonged to one of them).”