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A photo of sister-in-laws with their kids outside in winter near Marquette, Manitoba, just several months after immigrating to Canada: (l-r) Katja (Voth) Klassen holding Elvira, then Tina (Bergen) Voth holding Holdina with Herta and Walter next to Tina.

A photo of the Voth and Klassen mothers and families, sitting outside in the yard of a farm house in Rivers, Manitoba. During the first years, these newly immigrated families worked as hired labour for various farmers in the area of Rivers and Marquette. Identified on the photo are (front, l-r): Elfrieda Klassen with Holdina, Katja Klassen with Nora, Agatha Klassen with Elvira, Grandmother Klassen, Tina Voth with Herta at knew and Walter at back; (back, l-r): Nick, Justina Klassen. Susie Voth trying to escape the camera because she was still wearing her big apron.

Another photo (see also NP214-01-04) of sister-in-laws with their kids outside in winter near Marquette, Manitoba, just several months after immigrating to Canada: (l-r) Katja (Voth) Klassen holding Elvira, then Tina (Bergen) Voth holding Holdina with Herta and Walter next to Tina.

A photo of the Klassen and Voth Familes gathered in front of a farm building in early spring 1926 near Rivers, Manitoba. During the first years, these newly immigrated families worked as hired labour for various farmers in the area of Rivers and Marquette.

During the first years of their life in Canada, the Voth and Klassen families worked as hired labour for various farmers in the area of Rivers and Marquette. In this photo (the date April 1926 is inscribed), they are pictured at a railway siding, moving house with all their belongings, presumably to another farm.

A photo of Franz Klassen's automobile with the Klassen and Voth children standing in front of it, possibly 1933. The house in the background is the Voth home on the Springstein farm purchased in 1927 (see NP214-01-19).

This photo is of a laborer in the Philippines who is picking pineapples on Del Monte's 48,000-acre pineapple plantation.

This is a photo of Anna Doerksen (nee Anna Kehler) with her children--Len, Betty, and Esther--cultivating berries on their Clayburn Road farm, Abbotsford. See page 87 in Daughters in the House of Jacob.

This is a photo of Leonard N. Doerksen standing with his brother Dan beside a wagon full of berries on the way to market. See page 88 in Daughters in the House of Jacob.