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 […]
My Brother Leonard William Koop, 1944-1951
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. […]
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 […]
