Leonard was born February 5, 1944 in Hopewell Hospital, Russell Street, Leamington, Ontario. He died on Highway 77, corner of Concession 7, on his way home from school on November 22, 1951. My twin brother Werner had died at five months in 1939, and my sister Nancy died in 1947 at 14 months of age. […]
"Stories Then" Archive
The posts below include stories told by refugees from Ukraine, 1920-1930 and 1947-1950.
Erna Janzen Story
Erna Fast Janzen was born in 1923 in Muntau, Molotschna Colony, Russia. I was born in the Muntau hospital in Russia. My parents were Peter and Maria Brown Fast. We, along with our grandmother Brown, came to Waterloo, Ontario in 1924 where sister Mary was born in 1926. My father worked on the Sydney Martin […]
Reverend Derksen Story
Reverend David Derksen was born in 1910, in Fischau, Molotschna Colony, Ukraine. “He has made His wonderful works to be remembered” Psalm 11:4a. Only as we remember His wonderful works can we truly rejoice in them. I was born on October 1st 1910, an autumn day when our workers, two men and one woman were hired […]
