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Archives for January 2013

January 14, 2013

Grower Flowers Dot Com

Sign in front of Grower Flowers greenhouse in winter

When Mark Thiessen got his first e-mail order for a dozen red roses he knew instinctively that the World Wide Web would be his ticket to success. This happened on Aug. 2nd, 1996 when he was sitting in the veranda of his grandfather Jacob Thiessen’s house, in front of a computer. Previous to this Mark […]

Article by Bruno Penner / Filed Under: Stories Now /

January 7, 2013

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 […]

Article by Astrid Koop / Filed Under: Stories Then /

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