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. […]
Grower Flowers Dot Com
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 […]
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 […]
