I was five years old when our family arrived in Kitchener, Ontario. My parents, Jacob and Olga Hamm, had been able to pay their travel fare from Russia to Canada. I can remember a rainy Saturday evening when I was sitting on a wicker suitcase waiting for my father while he looked for our Reimer […]
Elizabeth Neufeld Hoch: born June 6, 1922 in Kronsthal, Russia
When I was about three years old, I got my new Sunday dress dirty. I was afraid my parents would punish me so I looked for a place to hide. Our home was just two houses back of the village variety store; I ran and hid in the barrel where the store owners kept their […]
Part 4 Immigrants To Essex County: Worship Services
No doubt ever existed among the Mennonite immigrants of that time concerning whether or not they should worship together. “No Sunday without a religious service” had been the watchword before coming to Canada, and the same watchword was to remain in effect. For this reason, smaller and larger worship units appeared almost spontaneously in various […]
