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The Peters Store owned by Peter Peters, maternal

  • CA MAO M2004B 1
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  • 1915

The Peters Store owned by Peter Peters, maternal grandfather of Marg Boldt. Jewelry was sold here and the family was well off. The Brasol Colony was just north of the Molochna Colony.

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Isaak Sawatsky and Anna Dick Gossen Sawatsky (she

  • CA MAO M2004D 1
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  • 1920

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.

Unknown

Jakob Enns family in an outdoor setting. Jakob

  • CA MAO M2004E 10
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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.

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Funeral of four men and one woman who were killed

  • CA MAO M2004E 2
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  • 1919

Funeral of four men and one woman who were killed by the bandits. The woman died with the men because she threw himself in front of her father. Likely they were relatives of Olga’s family.

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The wedding of Gerhard Enns’ sister (paternal

  • CA MAO M2004E 3
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The wedding of Gerhard Enns’ sister (paternal aunt to Olga Enns) to Abram Baerg. The bride wears a black dress and a white veil. Earlier it was the custom to wear black for weddings. The label of the photo is “Cabinet Portrait” indicating the photographer could have been Mennonite or German.

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Heinrich Enns and Sara Enns on horseback. They

  • CA MAO M2004E 5
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  • 1912

Heinrich Enns and Sara Enns on horseback. They were siblings of Olga Enns’ father, Gerhard Enns. Heinrich was an evangelist. Perhaps this photo was taken on his travels as an evangelist.

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The Gerhard Neufeld family. The background of

  • CA MAO M2004E 7
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  • 1904

The Gerhard Neufeld family. The background of this photo is interesting with its view of the forest. See M2004E-6 for a picture of Gerhard when he was younger. On this photo he could be 7 years old. His sister Katja (Katie) stands behind him. Imprinted on the bottom right hand corner of this photo is the date 1904.
In 1924 when Olga Enns was 7 years old, her family emigrated to Canada. But she was not allowed to come to Canada in July with the rest of her family. Her parents asked a different Neufeld family to look after 7 year old Olga and Gerhard Neufeld who by this time was in his late teens and an orphan. Gerhard and Olga arrived in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in September 1924. Gerhard later married a daughter of Bishop (Ältester) Janzen of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Heinrich Enns, brother to Olga Enns’ father

  • CA MAO M2004E 8
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Heinrich Enns, brother to Olga Enns’ father Gerhard Enns is with another man in the forest. Heinrich is probably the one standing behind the other man, to the right of the man holding the horse. This photo could be related to his Alternative Service during WW I, or, his work as an evangelist. Heinrich Enns worked as an evangelist during the chaotic times of the 1920s when preaching was forbidden. Because of this he was hunted down by the Bolsheviks, suffering severely because of this to the point of death. The Mennonites asked the Bolsheviks to finally leave him alone. He was brought to a house where he could die in peace. He died in the late 1920s when Olga’s family was already living in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

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Wedding portrait of Peter Dyck and his wife,

  • CA MAO M2004E 9
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Wedding portrait of Peter Dyck and his wife, maternal (her mother’s brother) uncle of Olga Enns. The bride is wearing a white dress and an unusual headpiece. The setting is very elegant.

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Family of Jakob and Maria Fehderau

  • CA MAO M2004F 1
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  • 1912

Family of Jakob and Maria Fehderau. Back row standing: Peter, Manja, Jascha; Front row sitting: Papa, Kolja, Mama, Liese, Tina.

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Peter, Jacob and Nicholas Fehderau

  • CA MAO M2004F 12
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  • 1908

The two older brothers of Nicholas J. Fehderau, Peter (standing) and Jascha with Nicholas J. Fehderau who is the youngest boy in the photo.

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Maria Fehderau with children

  • CA MAO M2004F 17
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  • 1910

Nicholas J. Fehderau was about six years of age in this photo with his mother Maria (Bahnmann) Fehderau, and his two sisters, Liese and Tina.

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Peter Bahnmann, grandfather of Nicholas J.

  • CA MAO M2004F 4
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  • 1891

Peter Bahnmann, grandfather of Nicholas J. Fehderau, with his two daughters, Maria (standing), mother of Nicholas J. Fehderau, and Katharina.

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