Happy New Year. I have just started researching my paternal great-grandparents. My great-grandfather was John Clemens Joseph STADELMAN born August 1850 and died Feb. 27, 1924 in Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. He married Lena FANKHAUSER who died May 30, 1911 in a tragic kitchen fire in Cobalt. They had ten children Lawrence, Minnie, Louise, Eugene Clemens (my grandfather), Albert. William, Bertha, John (Jack), Agnes and Julia May. John Clemens Joseph Stadelman lived in Shakespeare, Ontario, Canada before heading to Northern Ontario. He arrived in Canada about 1860 as a young boy. Worked for the Grand Trunk Railway. I would appreciate any info on surname origins. How would one have immigrated to Canada? By boat from Switzerland or Germany? Would they have arrived in the U.S. first or come to Canada. Port of arrival New York, Montreal? Would this have been a normal immigration or perhaps a historical event made it necessary? Thanks.