[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] help

[Joan Meyer]

I am wondering the same thing.  My greatgrandparents arrived in Winnipeg in
April of 1892. What did they do for the two years before they opened
homestead at Lemberg, Saskatchewan in April of 1894? I have suspected that
they worked on the Mennonite Reserves just south of Winnipeg because on the
marriage certificate of their oldest son who stayed in Hamburg he states his
parents address was Rosenthal, Canada, and when their next son arrived in
Canada around New Years 1893 his destination was Plum Coulee. The puzzling
thing to me is that my grandfather never once talked about working in
Manitoba for those two years. Sure would like to find some evidence of their
stay there. Joan

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Driechel
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Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] help


Hi
When German Lutherans immigrated from Volhynia in 1890 and then spent a year
in Winnipeg, what would they have been doing there?  Would they have worked
on Mennonite farms?  Is there any way to get information about them at this
time?  My grandmother (Lydia Quast or Kwast) was born in 1891 while the
family spent the year (1890-1891) in Winnipeg and was baptised in a Lutheran
Church there, but I can not find the name of the church - hoping to find a
record of her baptism. Marg

There were two ways to travel from Europe to North America.  One was the
Direct way, and it cost about twice as much as the "Indirect" way.  The
Direct way was from a port where the ship would sail directly to the USA or
Canada, such as Bremen or Hamburg.  The Indirect way was to take a train to
a port in northern Europe, and then a small boat to London, and then another
train to Liverpool, and then a boat to Canada or USA. So it depends how much
money the people had, to pay for their trip.  My grandparents sailed from
Bremen to New York, and then took a train to Winnipeg, and then another
train to The Interlake region in Manitoba.  My husbands grandparents took
the other route and sailed from Liverpool to Quebec City, and then took a
train to Manitoba. Muriel
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