. The Catholic Church in Waterloo County : Book I, with a summary history of the Diocese of Hamilton, Book II, and a list of the clergy who labored in its district from the beginning to the present, Book III, . nd a half miles to the Canadian Pacific from Guelph to Goderich passes the village about threemiles to the northeast, with Weissenburg the nearest station, about three milesdistant. The Grand Trunk Line to Palmerston is also about three miles away,with Marden as its nearest station. The land is rolling, very fertile and well cultivated. Originally it belongedto the German
. The Catholic Church in Waterloo County : Book I, with a summary history of the Diocese of Hamilton, Book II, and a list of the clergy who labored in its district from the beginning to the present, Book III, . nd a half miles to the Canadian Pacific from Guelph to Goderich passes the village about threemiles to the northeast, with Weissenburg the nearest station, about three milesdistant. The Grand Trunk Line to Palmerston is also about three miles away,with Marden as its nearest station. The land is rolling, very fertile and well cultivated. Originally it belongedto the German Land Company like the rest of the Township. The farms alongthe Grand River were all taken up by Pennsylvania Mennonites in the begin-ning of the nineteenth century. As to the climate of the district. Father Holzercannot praise it enough. He declares that during the first nine months of hisresidence here they had only one funeral, and that was of a man 84 years the healthfulness of the climate has not changed for the worse since isevident from the fact that three brothers, named Thomas, Joseph, and Martin,Hummel, who were among the early settlers, lived to be 99, 95 and 86 years ST. BOXIFACE CHURCH AND RECTORY, NEW GERMANY 50 HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CHAPTER II.—EARLY CATHOLIC SETTLERS. The first Catholic immigrants from Europe came in about 1826 or poor, they first remained for some years among the older and wealthierMennonites and worked for them until they became acquainted with the con-ditions of this new country and earned a little money to begin farming forthemselves. Then they bought land located east of the river, on what were called theback lots of the German Tract. As the German Catholic population increasedand occupied all the land in Waterloo Township they overflowed north intoWoolwich and Pilkington Townships. The greater part of Woolwich also be-longed to the German Land Company, while Pilkington had been granted toGene
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