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Background<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Before 1650, the region of southwestern Ontario was occupied by the Neutral Indigenous Peoples. In 1651 the Neutrals were attacked, their villages destroyed and culturally eliminated by the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee Mississaugas). The Neutrals were pushed out and those remaining were absorbed into the Iroquois culture. In 1792 the British Crown bought 3 million acres, including Wilmot Township, from the occupying Mississaugas. In 1824 the government surveyed and created “lots”. In 1828 the Canada Land Company assumed responsibility for selling lots. There were settlers arriving in Waterloo Region prior to the government’s surveys having been completed. An area that became known as “the German Block” was “late” in being surveyed to match its occupants to the official “lots”. By 1845 Wilmot Township is within Waterloo Region, and in 1850 Wilmot Township had its first “Council”.<\/p>\n

The first settlers to Waterloo County were Pennsylvania German Mennonites in 1798 who took up land on the southern end of Waterloo Township. There was a dispute over ownership of the parcel, as the “seller” Richard Beasley had 2 partners, and was not legally authorized to sell the land to the German Mennonites. A group of Mennonite investors formed “The German Land Company”, redeemed the mortgage on the block forming Waterloo Township and bought the whole block of land. The Company surveyed the block into lots of 448 acres each.<\/p>\n

The Napoleonic Wars (1803 – 1815) had significant consequences for the political and social structures, and the economic stability in Europe. Nationalism based on shared origins and culture led to the end of some political states and the emergence of others. Between 1815 and 1914 30 million Europeans relocated to the United States and north into what was to become Canada.<\/p>\n

About 1826 or 1827 the first Catholic settlers entered Waterloo Township. Catholics settled in Erbsville, Rummelhart, Baden. The next, most numerous, group came mostly from Alsace, France and continued to fill in open Crown lands along the Upper Road (Erb’s Road) to St. Agatha. Also settling among the Alsatians were European settlers from Baden, Wurtemberg, Bavaria, the Rhine Province of Prussia, Hessia and other parts of Germany. The earliest settlers lived in peace and friendship with the Indigenous Peoples and carried on a considerable trade with them. As the land was cleared for farms, and settlers hunted for food, the habitat for large game disappeared, as did the large game and the indigenous people who all moved further north.<\/p>\n

Ignatius B.Ditner<\/strong> was born on May 9, 1793, in Ammertzwiller, Haute-Rhin, Alsace, France. He was the original Ditner ancestor to come to Canada. He married twice. He had one child, Ignatius N. Ditner, with his first wife, Catherina (nee Bohrer), who died April 10th, 1824 in France at the age of 21. 8 months later, on December 6th, 1824 he married Maria Francikia (nee Stimpfling) with whom he had 3 children before sailing to Canada: Andreas was born October 6th, 1828, Sister Mary Eugan a.k.a. Marie Anne) was born on July 20th, 1830, and Aloysius was born on April 14th, 1832. They had 2 more children, a total of 6, after arriving in Canada: Ludovic was born October 23rd, 1834, and Augustinus was born February 4th, 1838.<\/p>\n

He sailed on the ship Adeline, arriving at the port of Philadelphia on June 25th, 1833 with his wife and 4 children. He spoke German and French. He had 50 acres of land in Wilmot Township, lot #4, concession #1. He cleared the land for his farm and used stones from the clearing to build the house and the foundation of the barn. He received the Patent for his land in 1845.<\/p>\n

Ignatius B. Ditner’s 3rd child, Marie Anne Ditner (a.k.a. Sister Mary Eugen)<\/strong>, \u00a0had a great influence on the St. Agatha Parish. The St. Agatha parish was first organized in 1833. The first log church was replaced with a wooden frame church in 1840 as organized by Father Peter Schneider. This frame church was enlarged in 1849. On the southeast corner of St. Agatha, there was an old cemetery established on a hillside sloping up from the road to Petersburg. Father Eugene Funcken arrived in St. Agatha in 1857 and soon started to level the slop and wall it in. At the upper end, he had constructed a cemetery chapel and Shrine. The Stations of the Cross were placed on the cemetery wall. Father Funcken was motivated to have the chapel built when Sister Marie Anne told him of a dream her mother had, shortly before she died. She had dreamed of a chapel in the cemetery under the title of the Sorrowful Mother, surrounded by the Stations of the Cross and visited by devout pilgrims. She saw herself among the pilgrims, performing the devotion. Sister Marie Anne related that, before her mother told her of her dream, she herself had had a similar vision, believing herself kneeling on a grave, seeing the chapel in its present form with a steeple and cross.<\/p>\n

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Ignatius N. Ditner<\/strong>, Sgt. Hubert Ditner\u2019s great-grandfather was born in France on September 4th, 1823, and arrived with his parents via ship in 1833. He and his wife Barbara Francisca had 10 children. Their 7th child, Ignatius B. Ditner, was born on February 3rd, 1857. Barbara died in 1862 and is buried in the RC Cemetery, St. Agatha. Ignatius N. married Marianna (nee Bierenbuler) on January 10th, 1865. They had no children together. She was 47 when they married. \u00a0Ignatius N. died in 1892 and is buried in the RC Cemetery, St. Agatha. He settled on part of Lot #1, Concession #1 and received the Patent for his land in 1853.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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