As told in 2008 by Jake Tiessen, born in 1922. In 1925 our family, consisting of my parents, half-brother Peter,half-sister Margaret Tiessen Gossen, Frank, Betty Tiessen Janzen, Nick, Agatha, Mary Tiessen Harder, Katharine, and I moved to the Duke farm. In the fall of 1927, my parents bought the farm I live on today from […]
Henry Derksen Story
Henry Derksen was born in 1925 in Newton Siding, Manitoba. My parents were Henry Derksen born in Blumstein, Molotschna Colony, Russia in 1896, and Mary Wiens, born in Schönfeld, Russia in 1900. My parents were married in 1923 and came to Manitoba, Canada in 1924. Shortly after my birth, my parents and I moved from Manitoba […]
Abram Epp: born 1919 in Krasnopohl, Siberia
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 […]
