[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Canada vs. Brazil

[OMAR WELKE]

I think it may also have been a government insentive. I know my Welkes came to Brazil in the early 1920s and from conversations overheard growing up I recall that basically the land was given for a pittance to the settlers ... but there was a catch ... much of the land was still heavily wooded jungle and had to be cleared by the settlers before farming it. 
I still recall a story my father told me that sometime in the early 30s when he was  in his early teens he would ride between his parents farm and my his uncles farm down a long strech of road still surrounded by jungle and that he could sometimes hear wild animals (jaguars I would guess) stalking him and his horse just out of eyesight in the woods ... makes braving the mall today seem rather tame doesn't it? :)
 
Regards
Omar

--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Nelson Itterman <colnels at telus.net> wrote:

From: Nelson Itterman <colnels at telus.net>
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Canada vs. Brazil
To: "'Carol Duff'" <cmduff at redwing.net>, ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Received: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 10:58 PM

Would that be companies or Churches? Churches played an active role in
assisting immigrants.
Nelson

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    Some of my family who went to Canada seem to have had their ship passage
paid for or partly paid for. This might have been true for Brazil also. It
seems that companies recruited settlers to come. Carol
>   

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