Showing 2 results

Archival description
Leamington (Ontario) Subseries
Advanced search options

Find results with:

in
Add new criteria

Limit results to:

Filter results by:

Filter by date range:

Use these options to specify how the date range returns results. "Exact" means that the start and end dates of descriptions returned must fall entirely within the date range entered. "Overlapping" means that any description whose start or end dates touch or overlap the target date range will be returned.
Print preview View:
Ascending

Gerhard and Gertrude Reimer Letters

This file consists of the following:
1) An introductory biographical essay by Paul Tiessen, 5 pages. English language
2) Letters by Gerhard Reimer and Gertrude Reimer, 18 cm. unpaged, Written in German in the Gothic scrip
3) Letter to Familie Issak From Grete und Franz Thiessen, written in1926 in Rosthern Sask, 1 page

Reimer, Gerhard, 1876-1931

Jacob W. Toews letters

This sub series consists of an extensive correspondence between the father, Jacob W. Toews in Ohrloff, S. Russia and his daughters Susanna Toews and Agnes Toews and other family members with his sons Gerhard and William Toews in Leamington, Canada .The letters date from 1927 to 1938. The subject under discussion is mainly emigration, collectivization, starvation, the Five Year Plan, taxation, survival, abductions, arrests, funerals and church life in very difficult times. Part of the family were able to emigrate to Canada but some remained in the Soviet Union.

Toews, Jacob Wilhelm, 1847-1933