This is M.S. Tabinta ship on which the Erich Ratzlaff and his family travelled to Canada. On 19 July 1948 the family boarded the Dutch ship M.S. Tabinta in Rotterdam and disembarked in Quebec City on 29 July 1948.
Studio photograph of David and Frieda Ratzlaff Schroeder family. Back row (left to right) : Harry Schroeder, Anne Schroeder, Albert Schroeder. Front row (left to right) : Walter Schroeder, Frieda Schroeder and David Schroeder.
A studio photograph of Erich and Aganeta Janzen Ratzlaff with four children - Franz (sitting beside his mother), Wilhelmina and Peter (standing on either side of their father and Gustav sitting on a chair. Peter and Gustav are wearing identical jackets with big white collars. The date for the photograph is based on the youngest child being Franz who died in 1922.
Erich Ratzlaff in a classroom setting - teaching history? From 1954 to 1967 he taught at the Mennonite Educational Institute in Abbotsford, British Columbia, primarily in the areas of German language, religion and church history
Erich Ratzlaff in conversation with guest minister Norman Augustine Cafik. In 1977, he was the second person of Ukrainian descent to be appointed to the Canadian Cabinet when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made him Minister of State for Multiculturalism.