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St. Jacobs Country Mill Market in St. Jacobs, Ontario. Previously the flour mill. Slide taken 1987. Hunsberger photo

Snider estate, currently owned by Milo Shantz in St. Jacobs, Ontario. Slide taken January 1987. Hunsberger photo

Dominion Button Works at College & King Streets in Berlin, Ontario. Owned by Jacob Y. Shantz.

Folk art, possibly by Abraham Latschaw (1799-1870). Angel of wisdom (sophia) motif. From Christian Eby collection.

Isaak Sawatsky and Anna Dick Gossen Sawatsky (she was married 2 times), paternal step-grandfather and grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck. Elfrieda remembers him fondly as a good grandfather.

Herta, at left, born in 1905 and her sister Rita (Margarete), at right, born in 1905, sit beneath the decorated Christmas tree in their home with their dolls and other Christmas presents around them. The Christmas tree had real candles. The other decorations on the tree were homemade and consisted of nuts and homemade cookies. These girls were the daughters of Dietrich and Anna (Wiens) Rempel, Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck’s grandparents and Rita was the mother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck. Anna (Wiens) Rempel was born in Bachmut and likely both of her daughters were born there as well. It is not known when the family moved to Halbstadt.

Three young women pose standing, outdoors. Left to right they are: Katja Rempel, Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck, Agatha (Rempel) Regehr. Katja and Agatha were step-sisters.

Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck, poses, a book on her lap, surrounded by palm-leaf and myrtle plants. An exact date for this picture is not available. We do know that Anna was married at 18 years of age in 1901.

Mr. Hänsel, at left, Anna (Wiens) Rempel in the middle and her husband Dietrich Rempel, share a toast at an outdoor picnic. Anna and Dietrich are Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck’s maternal grandparents. The two daughters of Anna and Dietrich: Rita (Margarete) at the left, mother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck and Herta on the right, sit with their parents.

Jakob Enns family in an outdoor setting. Jakob was likely a paternal uncle of Olga Enns. Again, the label of the photo is “Cabinet Portrait” indicating the photographer could have been Mennonite or German.

The Brodsky estate with the grandparents of Nicholas J. Fehderau, Peter and Marie Bahnmann in the foreground to the right and workers from the estate behind them. This photograph was published in: John D. Rempel and Paul Tiessen, eds., Forever Summer, Forever Sunday, Peter Gerhard Rempel’s Photographs of Mennonites in Russia, 1890-1917 (St. Jacobs, (Ontario): Sand Hills Books, Inc., 1981), plate 10.

Left to right: Maria Bahnmann (mother of Nicholas J. Fehderau), Tina Martens, Katharina Bahnmann, and Maria Martens.

Peter Bahnmann, grandfather of Nicholas J. Fehderau, teased Tina, Liese and Manja (older sisters of Nicholas J. Fehderau) by calling them the “troika”. They are pictured here in their playhouse with their dolls on the Brodsky estate.

From the left: Manja Fehderau, sister of Nicholas J. Fehderau, with her friends, Suse and Lena Dick.

The house of the parents of Nicholas J. Fehderau on the corner of Poststrasse and Zentraljnana.