Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.
Elias W. Bricker

Elias W. Bricker[1, 2]

Male 1853 - 1939  (85 years)

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  • Name Elias W. Bricker 
    Born 28 Apr 1853  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    Gender Male 
    Interesting story 
    Residence 1861  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Mennonite 
    Occupation 1881  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    farmer 
    Occupation 1881  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Farmer 
    Occupation 1891  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Farmer 
    Residence 1891  Aldersyde, Alberta Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Residence 1891  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Mennonite 
    Residence 1901  Okotoks, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Residence 1918  Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Eby ID Number 00016-1243 
    Died 13 Jan 1939  Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Buried Mount View Mennonite Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Person ID I20238  Generations
    Last Modified 26 Feb 2024 

    Father John C. Bricker,   b. 9 Oct 1825, Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jan 1904  (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Sarah Wideman,   b. 8 Jan 1832, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 May 1856, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years) 
    Married 30 Dec 1845  , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12
    Family ID F2923  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catharine Snider,   b. 3 Oct 1854, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Feb 1944, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years) 
    Children 
     1. Martha Bricker,   b. 4 Jul 1877, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Ann Bricker,   b. 1878, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Aaron Bricker,   b. 26 Jan 1879, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Mar 1928, High River, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years)
     4. Clara Bricker,   b. 3 Sep 1880, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1906, High River Cemetery, High River, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 25 years)
     5. Harvey Bricker,   b. 11 Feb 1881, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Mar 1957, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     6. Mary Ann Bricker,   b. 7 Oct 1883, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. John Henry Bricker,   b. 13 Oct 1885, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Archibald Bricker,   b. 30 Dec 1887, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     9. Edgar Bricker,   b. 22 Feb 1890, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     10. Esther Bricker,   b. 3 Dec 1892, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2024 
    Family ID F5035  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Bricker, Elias and Catherine.jpg
    Bricker, Elias and Catherine.jpg

  • Notes 
    • Elias Bricker,"the second son, was born April 28th, 1853. He is married to Catharine Snyder. He resides in the Canadian North West were he is engaged in farming and ranching. His family consists of nine children".


      Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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      Bricker.--Elias W. Bricker was born April 28, 1853, at Hawksville, Ont.; moved to Aldersyde, Alta., in 1891; died in his home in East Calgary, Alta.; aged 85 y. 8 m. 16 d. He spent the last 20 years in Calgary. He gave his heart to God early in life and was faithful to the end, living a consistent and useful life. He spent the last few years of his life distributing tracts and religious literature. He always enjoyed conversing on things of God, ready always to lend a helping hand whenever opportunity afforded it. He was one of the charter members of the Mount View Mennonite congregation near Aldersyde. The last year of his life being mostly confined to his home, he expressed himself ready and anxious to go. Three daughters and 1 son preceded him in death (Martha, Mary, Clara, and Aaron). He leaves his beloved wife and daughter (Esther), 4 sons (Harvey and Archibald of Calgary, Edgar of Aldersyde, and John Henry of Arizona), 1 brother (Menno of Blackie, Alta.), 1 brother and sister of Elmira, Ont., and a large number of relatives and friends to mourn his departure. He has gone to glory. Let us prepare to meet him. Funeral services at Calgary in Foster & Foster Funeral Home by Bro. O. O. Hershberger, and at Mount View Mennonite Church Jan. 16, in charge of Brethren Isaac Miller and C. J. Ramer of Duchess, Alta. Texts, I Sam. 28: 18; Psa. 90: 9; II Tim. 4: 7. Burial in the adjoining cemetery

      Gospel Herald February 9, 1939 - Vol. XXXI, No.45 - pages 982, 983, 984

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      Bricker: Mennonite pioneer and church builder of the Mount View Mennonite Church near High River, was born 28 April 1853 at Hawksville, Ontario, and died in Calgary on 13 January 1939. He married Catharina Snyder (3 October 1854-19 February 1944) in 1874. They were the parents of five sons and four daughters.

      The Brickers were among the first Mennonite settlers in what became the province of Alberta. Elias and his father first came west from Ontario on a homesteader's excursion sponsored by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1889. The family moved in 1891, establishing their farmstead near the line of a new railway being built from Calgary south to Fort MacLeod, between Okotoks and High River. Other prospective Mennonite pioneers soon followed.

      The Brickers were eager to see new Mennonite congregations organized among the new settlers. With Elias Bricker's encouragement, the Mennonite Conference of Ontario sent S. F. Coffman west in 1901. Coffman lived with the Brickers when meeting with the settlers in the High River area, and the Brickers became charter members and wholehearted supporters of the Mount View Mennonite Church when it was organized late in 1901.

      Elias Bricker also served as one of the early local postmasters, but moved to Calgary in 1918. There he became active in distributing tracts and religious literature to the homes of Calgary residents, trying to contact every household in the city at least once.

      During the last years of his life Elias Bricker suffered much as a result of ill health, and was mostly confined to his home. He died at the age of 85 years and is remembered as a pioneer homesteader/farmer and as a church builder and supporter.

      Written December 2003 by TDR
      Page created 2004 by SJS
      ©1996-2005 by the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada. All rights reserved.

  • Sources 
    1. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 314.

    2. [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 639.

    3. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 311.

    4. [S206] Census - Alberta - 1901, ALBERTA (#202) Subdistrict: Okotoks g(3) Page 7.

    5. [S130] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1881, Film 1375901 District 162 Sub-district A Division 4 Page Number 14 Household Number 61.

    6. [S130] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1881, Div. 4 Page 14.

    7. [S8] News - Gospel Herald, February 9, 1939 - Obituary of Elias W. Bricker.

    8. [S1821] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1891, Section 5 Page 12.

    9. [S855] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1861, Sect.14 Page 93.

    10. [S8] News - Gospel Herald, March 16, 1944 - Obituary of Catherine Bricker.

    11. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 310.

    12. [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Rev'd Jacob Huttner, Lutheran Minister, Preston report 53.
      John Bricker, of Wilmot, married to Sarah Witeman, of Woolwich. 30 Dec. 1845

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 28 Apr 1853 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1861 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - farmer - 1881 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1881 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1891 - Aldersyde, Alberta Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1901 - Okotoks, , Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1918 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 13 Jan 1939 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Mount View Mennonite Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta Link to Google Earth
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