My father Heinrich Janzen was born in 1878 and mother Elizabeth Dyck was born in 1885 and were living at Georgestahl in Furstenland Colony, a daughter settlement of Chortitza, Ukraine. Each farm there consisted of approximately 175 acres. This land was rented from the Grand Duke Michail Nikolaevitch, and was located south of Chortitza in […]
Archives for February 2013
New Directions: An Interview with Dean Tiessen
At first there were four brothers and now there are six: Mark, Chris & Bradley, Dean, Mike & Ryan, and Jason. They represent generations of Tiessens who have been in farming – an example of how a plant grows. The kind of ‘farming’ they do has lured universities from around the world into their sphere, […]
In Memory of Maria Braun Fast, 1899-1939
Pelee Island was my home for the first nine years of my life. Mom had come to Pelee in 1925; Dad in 1930. My earliest memory goes back to the summer of 1939. I was seventeen months old and Maria Fast was dying of Tuberculosis. Her husband Peter Fast was mother’s cousin. Their children were […]
