biographical summaries - University of Waterloo
biographical summaries - University of Waterloo
biographical summaries - University of Waterloo
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RUSSIAN-NENNONITE UfMIGRANTS<br />
<strong>of</strong> the 1920's (Ontario)<br />
}u\.THIES, John<br />
42 Neptune St., St. Catharines, Onto<br />
Tape #72, sides A and B<br />
Recorded on Hay 31, 1978 in English<br />
Biographical sketch:<br />
- born in Schoenfeld on Oct. 24, 1910<br />
- father was David Hathies, estate owner<br />
- educated by tutor on the estate<br />
stayed \vith his grandparents while his father \Vas in service<br />
- mother and grandparents murdered by bandits; father also shot but survived<br />
- lost their land after the Civil Har<br />
- emmigrated in the fall <strong>of</strong> 1925 via Riga, London and Southampton<br />
- arrived in Dominion City, Han. in Nov. 1925<br />
,vorked on farms in Lettelier and Gretna areas<br />
- father bought a farm vacated by Hennonite emigres to South America; stayed<br />
here one summer<br />
- came to Onto in the fall <strong>of</strong> 1927<br />
- worked as sharecropper with his father for four years<br />
- bought a farm in Leamington; stayed here until 1935<br />
moved to Beamsville; worked as a teamster; bought a six acre fruit farm<br />
- married Hilda Schultz in 1945
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