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They landed in (not audible) because they had relatives there. She doesn't remember whether they owned a house there. In 1911, they were given 10 dollars by the government to buy a homestead, and then they came out to Moosehorn, Manitoba. She has no idea who directed them, that was never really discussed. Things were not so good but her father was hard-working. She doesn't know where her parents got the animals from, to have milk. In 1912, her mother's husband died, and in June, she had \"this little one\". They look at a picture: It's the tallest one, Arthur. Her mother also had a sister, Helena (Olena), before. She was a little older. She was five when her father was coming across with her. She had to stay back in Montreal because she had an illness in her eyes, and they would not let her go for \"I don't know how many weeks\". Zimmerman's mother had to stay with her sister, she couldn't travel on. That was never explained later.\nWhen her parents settled in Moosehorn, it was hard and tough at the beginning. They had sod huts, they talked about it later, that was the first thing they put together as a shelter. Zimmerman doesn't know what tools they had to cut down the trees. It must have been tough.\nZimmerman's mother's first husband died in June (1912), and her brother Arthur was a little baby. Her father had taken a homestead beside them. They married in December. Her mother was married to two brothers: Her first husband had been 10 years older, and her father three and a half years younger than she was. Her father was the fifth child in the family. Zimmerman states that her father needed a wife to cook, and her parents were helping each other, and by the end of December 1912, they got married. Her parents continued to use both farms together, and they bought two other quarters (quarter sections) of land later when their boys were older. It was a sort of land that was left, and people were using it for cattle, nobody owned it but then her father bought it. When the boys were growing it, there was help (she laughs).","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=2.0,361.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cattle","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"farming","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"immigration","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sod buildings","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=2.0,361.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A family photograph, her brother Arthur's disappearance","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=361.0,805.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman explains who is depicted on a family picture they are looking at. The tall boy on the far right is her older brother Arthur. The next one standing in the back is Margaret. It was the first child from the second marriage (maybe the second, as a little boy died in infancy but Zimmerman forgot whether this boy was from the first or second marriage). Her sister Margaret was a very sick child. She died now, last month, she was 89. The next person in the picture is Zimmerman's brother Emil (on the left side), he is two years younger than Margaret. She herself is in the middle. On the right is her brother Albert, two years younger than she. He died at the age of 65. There is another brother on the picture, Arnold, 14 months younger than she. He wrote \"all this\" (obviously, a family history). Her brother Arthur drowned in Ontario. He went hunting and never came home. There went a search on for nine days, and nobody could find him. They found a car, his lunch bag, and his coat. There was not much snow. It is unknown whether he went on the lake and it was not frozen enough, or whatever. They only thing they could figure out is that he must have fallen into the lake. The next year, one of her brothers went out with relatives to Thunder Bay, Ontario, they went out to the lake. Skin divers had just to give up because the Ontario lakes are so rough, with trees fallen in, with rocks, so they had to give up the search. They said: Next spring, the body will come up. The body did not come up the next spring but the year after. One night, somebody was at the lake, fishing or sight seeing or whatever, and he thought he saw something floating on the water, something long. He felt it looked like a body to him, so he went back to Thunder Bay and told the police, and they went and scooped up the body. None of them could see him except the two-brothers-in law. They had to identify him. There was still his watch on his arm. She always says, it was meant for them (his family) that he had in his pocket his hunting license in a plastic folder, and they took that out of his pocket and they peeled the papers apart as if they had just fallen in a pail of water. That was the only definite proof that it was him. The boys (the two brothers-in-law) couldn't bring the thing into the house, they were told by the police, so they buried it in the garden until they had the funeral because they said the odour of that person will never leave the building. Zimmerman starts to cry and apologizes for \"breaking down\", she never did that before. She continues: The other thing that was very sad about is was that the little girl, the youngest one, had just turned three when her father disappeared. She couldn't eat as she was so touched. Now there are just two of the siblings left, her brother (Emil) in Kelowna, BC, his wife died there, he is very lonesome. Her sister (Margaret) was two years in a care home, she had Alzheimer's, like her husband, now at the end of April it will be ten years that he passed away.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=361.0,805.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family histories","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"half-siblings","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hunting accidents","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"illness","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"missing persons","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"photographs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"search and rescue workers","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"siblings","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=361.0,805.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"School life, singing in the choir, Christmas, language use","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=805.0,1151.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman recalls that they had a long way to school and they didn't have the convenience of bus or ride. Parents were stricter than nowadays with what children have to have, there was no great activity other than just going to school and having a baseball team. They did have a choir, there was a band (her brother now living in Kelowna used to play in that band). This was in the district, their Sunday school teacher was able to lead the band. In 1930, they got a Mennonite teacher, he was good and he stayed, it was just a wonderful thing for them to learn to sing in the choir. All the had was a tuning fork, they didn't have an organ there. The children in school and the programs they had for Christmas were wonderful.\nWhen her older sisters were teenagers, they left. Their church was Lutheran but yet the Mennonite teacher was willing to help which they greatly appreciated. The teacher's name was Alexander Fast. His oldest daughter-in-law is still (not audible). The interviewers reaction: Wow, nice. Zimmerman never forgets the last Christmas the teacher was there. He said to the choir once that he would have loved to own a violin that he could play. People knew this and went and bought a violin for Christmas. They had put it in the teacher's house under the tree because nobody locked the house, and when the teacher came home, there was that violin. That was in 1935. The Christmas program was two and a half hours long, and there was nobody going out with papers to read, everybody memorized the texts, and the same with the songs. Her sister was very eager to sing and knew all the songs. That was just one of those things, that was all you had, you had no other entertainment. Zimmerman asks the interviewers if they want to hear all this, they state that it's interesting. Zimmerman sang in German. The Christmas program was all German, everybody was German there. Their district was all German, there were some Romanians and a couple of Ukrainians. She doesn't remember anyone not speaking German. They were supposed to speak English outside and yet there was always German there. It was not High German, it's \"a little bit slang to what we read\". They learned to read and pronounce German but would say it differently. Everybody had known some dialect from the family. The Christmas program lasted for two and a half hours. Zimmerman remembers their pastor, he had four congregations to serve.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=805.0,1151.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"baseball","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"choirs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christmas","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"education","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"languages","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pastors","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school buildings","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"siblings","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"singing","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sunday schools","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"teachers","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tuning forks","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"violins","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=805.0,1151.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"English","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Germans","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lutherans","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mennonites","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Romanians","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ukrainians","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=805.0,1151.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Religious practices","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1151.0,1270.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman remembers their pastor, he had to serve in four congregations. On Sundays, he would be preaching in the morning and in the afternoon, he was in their church in Moosehorn but the pastor lived in (not audible). He walked on the track the nine miles to Moosehorn, and then some of them would have to pick him up. The pastor would come already on Saturday for confirmation class. As they had a big house, Zimmerman's parents took him because other didn't have the convenience, someone had to give up his/her bed but that was ok. When the pastor came to their home and attended the two and a half hours Christmas Eve program, he was beside himself that they sang for so long.\nZimmerman thinks that she has told such stories not too often like this.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1151.0,1270.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christmas","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pastors","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1151.0,1270.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lutherans","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1151.0,1270.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A wedding in Niverville, MB, in 1945","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1270.0,1341.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The teacher, Mr. Fast, moved away to Niverville, Manitoba. They left in 1938, and the their oldest daughter got married in 1945, and Zimmerman attended the wedding (her father, she and her brother Arnold). Her mother stayed home as she had asthma, and she wasn't very comfortable to go to strange places, she had to start spitting, and she didn't want to go. It is another memory Zimmerman never forgets, she appreciated being there. 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It was taken around 1927 when her oldest sister got married. There are Arnold and Albert who was about four then. They talk about the clothing: Her mother must have sewn it, nobody bought things. At Christmas, they got a bunch of clothes they were handing out. She can still see her dress. She describes that dress. Clothing was sent to the church from somewhere. She was about eight or nine years then. Zimmerman is asked about the year she was born (in 1921). She doesn't know if the clothes on the picture are wedding clothes. She looks for a wedding picture in her album. Talking about the wedding (of her sister), there wasn't that many people, just the neighbours. She doesn't even know where they fed them (she laughs) because in the house they lived, there couldn't have been room for everyone. It was April. They look at the two wedding pictures. (Zimmerman is getting her photo album. The interviewers are whispering to each other.) Zimmerman explains that her album is already falling apart. She put the album together, she took the pictures just before she left home. Zimmerman shows some pictures taken after her brother's wedding. She shows another picture of her mother's grave and the stone her father made. Her father made stones for a lot of his friends at the cemetery. Zimmerman shows a picture of the wedding of the teacher's daughter she attended in Niverville which she talked about earlier in the interview. It depicts the church where they were married. He (the teacher's daughter's husband) died. Zimmerman shows another picture of her sister's wedding. They take it out to photograph it. There is another picture depicting the group (of wedding guests). There are two of her cousins' children.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1341.0,1715.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christmas","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clothing","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dresses","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graves","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"neighbors","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"photograph albums","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"photographs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sewing","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"weddings","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1341.0,1715.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Wedding pictures, Fast family","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1715.0,1807.06975"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They look at wedding pictures. One depicts Zimmerman's brother Art (Arthur)'s wedding. The other ones depict neighbours. There is another picture depicting the Fast family. They had a boy and a girl. That were the people she went visiting when she started to go on trips. She went to BC, it was great, they were very special people to her.\nThey look at a group picture of her sister's wedding. She can't see herself or who the children are, there were some of the neighbours' children, and her uncles. It would have been only close family. She doesn't know where they ate.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1715.0,1807.06975"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888/index/52218/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"neighbors","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"photographs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"visiting","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"weddings","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132888#t=1715.0,1807.06975"}]}]},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 4 - 2005-091-4143.wav"]},"duration":1804.0976,"width":640,"height":40,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/132/890/small/audio-default.png?1640618280","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-ualberta.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/132/890/original/2005-091-4143.wav?1660932286","type":"Audio","format":"audio/wav","duration":1804.0976,"width":640,"height":40},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Part 2 [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Wedding pictures, language use, a German song \"Lieb Heimatland ade\"","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=0.0,596.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman continues to talk about her sister's wedding, looking at a group picture of the wedding guests. She wonders where they ate because her parents' house wasn't made for such an amount of people. Maybe they ate outside but at the end of April, it isn't really that warm yet. The people in the picture are standing in light clothes. Her sister's wedding dress was made. She points at a person in the picture: The mother of this one, she was a cousin, she was pretty good in sewing. They talk about her sister Adelaide, her husband was called Hermann Felbl (?). Zimmerman remembers her sister's wedding dress well, it had panels of lace hanging at the side. She admired that as a kid. The sleeves look like lace too. The names of her cousins depicted on the right were Annie (Anna) and Linda. (Zimmerman is looking for another picture.) The wedding picture of her sister was taken when they came out of the church. The church was called Saint Paul's. It was a Lutheran church. The wedding service was in German, nobody was thinking about any other language. It affected Zimmerman when she learned to read German: \"That's not what we use at home.\" The pronunciation of reading was different than they were speaking. And then they pronounced German words to make them English or English words to make them German. She gives and example: How did they say when they were going to paint? (Zimmerman laughs): \"painten\". There is another word, \"anstreichen\" (in German). There were many words like that, you can laugh when you listen to people now that still use that, you think nobody learned to read. \n(Zimmerman shows a piece of her writing in school, it's in Gothic script.) Zimmerman states that she still speaks German, however, somehow mixed up. She doesn't want to do a part of the interview in German, \"not really\".\nThe interviewer reveals that she is not familiar with the Gothic script, so she asks Zimmerman to read a part of her German writing. The text is called \"Lieb Heimatland\" (Dear Motherland), it is a song about leaving home. Everybody cried when they read it.\nZimmerman reads:\n\"Nun ade, du teures Heimatland,\nlieb Heimatland ade.\nEs geht nun fort zum fernen Strand,\nlieb Heimatland, ade.Und so sing ich denn mit frohen Mut,\nwie man singet wenn,\nwenn man wandern tut,\nlieb Heimatland, ade!\"\n(Zimmerman states that she got \"that frog up there\". She continues to read:)\n\"Wie du lachst mit deines Himmels Blau,\nlieb Heimatland, ade.\nWie du grüßest mich mit Feld und Au',\nlieb Heimatland, ade.\nGott weiß, zu dir steht stets mein Sinn,\naber jetzt zur Ferne zieht's mich hin:\nLieb Heimatland, ade!\nDu begleitest mich, du klarer Fluß,\nlieb Heimatland, ade.\nBist traurig, daß ich wandern muß;\nlieb Heimatland, ade.\nVon dem moos'gen Stein, vom wald'gen Tal,\nach, da grüß' ich dich zum letzten Mal:\nLieb Heimatland, ade!\"\n\nThe interviewers state that they don't know that song, Zimmerman says that she should have been singing. She sings a part of the song. The interviewers applaud her. Zimmerman explains that she learned that song in school. There were many songs. The people in the school district preferred that the children should learn German. The children had to stay half an hour longer to learn German. In summer, they had half an hour before. Some of the children needed to be home for work after school. Zimmerman states that she used to like that song.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=0.0,596.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cousins","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dialects","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"languages","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wedding dresses","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"weddings","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=0.0,596.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Germans","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=0.0,596.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Language use, German language in church, starting a family late in life","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=596.0,1219.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Asked whether she still has an opportunity to use German, Zimmerman states that there is still a German service here, with few people but it is a difficult thing to get a pastor. Nowadays, there is hardly anybody who wants to do two services in a row, on the same day. Nowadays, everyone listens to radio and watches TV, everything is English enough that they understand English, and they speak it to one another, most of them (the Germans in Canada). So many of the old people have died, there are not too many left, and most of them are on the sick list, they can't come to church. There is only a handful left. There have been some problems, the pastor didn't care that much about it, not only the people, so then, what do you do?\nZimmerman's husband was German. He would understand and all that but he didn't have the training how to spell the language. He would read print but not writing. Her husband was with the Germans on the church board but they used English. When her husband was overseas during the war, he appreciated that he had some knowledge of German. He found lots of friends there, that made it nice for him.\nFrom there on, when they got married, they would speak English. They got married rather late: she was 39, he was 43; they have two children. Her son was born two weeks before she was 40, he's gonna be 44; Zimmerman is 84. Her daughter came quite a bit later, Zimmerman was almost 48 when she was born; she was now 36. It wasn't a conscious decision to get married late; she didn't have the opportunities before, and the opportunities she had she didn't care for (the interviewer laughs). She wasn't the kind to go out too much in the first place, to meet people. When she met her husband, this was after he had been overseas. They met in 1959. When Zimmerman is asked how they met, she replied \"that was sort of an accident\". She has two sister-in-laws that were sisters: One was married to her brother, the other one to her husband's brother. They would see each other at Christmas in Moosehorn. They were living in Winnipeg, so Zimmerman thought: Why would she have to go to Moosehorn to see each other, so she surprised her (the one married to her future husband's brother) one day. She hasn't seen her since Christmas, it was March, and she asked her whether it would be suitable to come over. She said yes. Sunday bus services were slow, Zimmerman came late, so she stayed for supper. Someone stopped at their place, and it was Eddie's brother. She didn't know his brother. He came in, they had supper there, and when they had to go home, her future husband asked her where she lived, and he gave her a lift. Zimmerman lived with her sister and her family then: \"He drove me home, and that's about it.\" Her future husband was building a cottage on a lake in Ontario with a friend. She thought, when you are going in a partnership, that doesn't always work. She didn't see her husband then, they hauled lumber at the lake. Her future husband got really sick and thought that he wouldn't come home anymore. He didn't phone her for a month because of that. After that, they went out once or twice, and then they found that they had a lot of in common, both never married before, so it worked out to that. They had very little to start with. Her husband was paying up a new car. She didn't have that much money saved either. That was tough but they did it anyway.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=596.0,1219.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"automobiles","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in-laws","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pastors","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"religious identity","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=596.0,1219.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leaving home, working in a hospital in Winnipeg","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=1219.0,1628.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman's husband was working for the department of National Defence when they met. Zimmerman herself was working at the hospital. She started with cleaning wards which she did for almost two years, and a girl (the central supply woman) was leaving. She would liked to have more Sundays than once a month. Zimmerman took that job (it had been a risk to ask), and so she would have every second Sunday off, and she still liked going back to Moosehorn. First, it was only once a month, she didn't even go to church there that much.\nAsked about how Zimmerman's family felt about that she was not marrying until she was 39, Zimmerman explains that she was at home until she was 28. When her mother died, her brother was still home but he had a girlfriend. After that, her father married their aunt, she was a widow; they got together a year and a half later. Zimmerman didn't leave right after her mother died because they needed somebody to do the cooking, she had lots of work there, she had to do the chores, washing and so on. Her father left on the 1st of May, her brother Arnold and Violet got married on the 23th of June (1950), and after that, she was free. Then she went to Winnipeg. She didn't know where she wanted to go to work. Her sister lived close to the hospital, and the only thing where she liked to work was a hospital. She didn't know much about hospitals but she wanted to help people. Zimmerman went to the desk of the hospital, and the lady there asks her what she wanted to do. Zimmerman thought of the cleaning part, and she started the following week. She stayed there for 10 and a half years. She was first at the wards for almost two years, then she was in the central supply for two years, and then went to the operating room. The staff there changed a bit from what it used to be, and they came to a different classification. She got an increase in earnings as well. She stayed there until she was expecting. She was married in June 1960. It was 10 and a half years that she was there.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=1219.0,1628.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cleaning personnel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hospitals","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"house chores","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=1219.0,1628.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman's parental home","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890#t=1628.0,1804.0976"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132890/index/52217/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman looks at a photograph of herself: \"I'm so pale, my Goodness.\" They look at another photograph with her parents. They gave her a little white poppy to hold for the picture. The picture was taken when she was about 7 months or a year, so it could be in 1922. The house stood empty until 1934, it was supposed to be in use the year she was born. They did something about the barn at that time. There was no money, and her mother said that the barn had to be made, so they extended the barn. While the house was being built, they lived in that little log house (she points to the picture). And that was the blacksmith shop at this end (she again points to the picture). There was also a kitchen and the area where they ate. There was a bed in there as well, and then there was a little room with two beds. They had a trunk or a big chest, and at the window between the beds, there was a sewing machine. They called the chest \"sideboard\". 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The interviewer states that it sounds crowded. Zimmerman recalls that they slept three in a bed. The mattresses were stuffed with hay or something like that. When she thinks about that, she realized that she has come a long way (she laughs). That's why she often felt for her mother: Her first husband died, and two days later, her son was born, that must have been an awful thing. They had animals in the barn at the beginning but then they extended it. The new house was on the same property but nearer the road, the log cabin was quite a bit farther in. They put a different roof on the blacksmith shop because it wasn't high. She remembers that people were always ducking when they went through the door. She was the next to grow that tall to duck, the building wasn't there anymore. 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Zimmerman explains that it depicts the same building but with a snow pile. In the picture are her parents (her mother is left) and herself. Her siblings are also there. Arthur was taking the picture, so he is not there. The picture was taken in 1934 when they moved to the new house. Zimmerman was already tall at the age of 12 or 13, as stated by the interviewers. She replies: \"I was pretty much the size I grew up to be but now I'm going the other way.\"\nZimmerman can't remember who had a camera. Her oldest brother had one, and after that, everyone wanted to have a camera too. She had one as well, a box camera.\nZimmerman talks about the snow pile on the picture: When they went to the other side of the house towards the barn, and the had to dig a trench through because the snow was piled up so high. The snow was so high that they didn't see two windows of the house at the picture. When there was a snow storm, there was sometimes a crack in the window, and all was covered with snowdrift in the house. When her father went out, he always had to bend his head down because the door couldn' have been of proper size. Zimmerman recalls that the house in the picture was built by her parents who got married in 1912. She does not know where her parents lived for the first years, it never was explained. But they talked about building a mud, she corrects herself: grass house or whatever when they came here, a sod house as they call it. That she never saw, she doesn't know but it was mentioned by different neighbourhood people. Zimmerman is now wondering where they got the logs to build because the bush around the area was just poplar, black poplar and white poplar, that's not a building type of logs. In later years, when her father went to the bush out East, northeast of Moosehorn, to cut cord wood, and they would haul it to Spearhill which was the first little store, and these were the kilns for limestone, they needed cord wood to heat, to have they stones made into lime. It has to do with the burning of this rock. She doesn't really know what the process was but limestone was in that area. There was a track, and once a week they picked up the stone, the freight that came out there, steered off from Moosehorn, it was ten miles or less from Moosehorn. Zimmerman has been there only twice, in Spearhill. That's what the people in the area did to make some money, it was not much, they brought that (the wood) there, got some money, and there was a little store there, they could buy flour, the things that were needed at home. Zimmerman remembers that her father would bring them a treat: a bag of peanuts. (She shows the size of the bag, obviously not too big): \"And there were all of us to share that.\" (She laughs.) \"For comparison to us now, it's a laugh but that's what it was.\" Sometimes they would also get popcorn tubes (she shows the size), they were different coloured, and the popcorn was different coloured in there. And they maybe had a tiny little ring and an ornament or something, in there, in this bag. Zimmerman always laughs at herself: \"A bag of peanuts, and that had to be shared, and there was not much in there whatsoever.\" (She again demonstrates how small the bag was.) Zimmerman's father also bought flour, she does not know how they got the flour there. It must have been per freight train. She thinks that they shipped the flour from Moosehorn to Spearhill. 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It was so dusty, there was nothing. Then they came back in 1935 (!). That was the farm her husband's family had been living on, when these people came back. So then they switched places. Her husband's family, they sold and left Moosehorn. They went to...around Winnipeg. One sister stayed behind, in Grahamdale, Manitoba, she was married. The others had to work hard, and the found a property and bought it. Her husband's father always went working somewhere else for other people. When they had their own house and the farm established, it was pretty nice. By the time she met her husband, the house was moved, and they lived right by the river. Zimmerman remembers her husband talking about a particular well that was almost like a spring. They would have there cream there as it was constantly cold. She thinks they had a little shelter over it. ","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132891#t=634.0,826.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132891/index/52216/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Father's trades, farming, chores, an almost-train accident","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132891#t=826.0,1543.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132891/index/52216/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman explains a picture of her father. They had a garden from the house to a fence, it was pretty big. There was a ditch from the well, when there was a lot of water, it would gather and run out in the slough. On the picture is also one of her nephews helping her father. The picture was probably taken in the 1950s. Asked about the blacksmith shop Zimmerman mentioned several times, she explains that her father did a lot of things. He was a shoemaker, everybody brought shoes to be fixed. He also would sharp the shares for ploughs, that's why people came to the blacksmith shop. Her father was pretty good in designing certain little things. He made two canes: He boiled one end of the stick and could bend it. Then, he got a piece of table cloth, narrow strips, wrapped it around, and then he would burn it so that it would get dark. He took the oil cloths off, and you got a fancy cane.\nOne other thing Zimmerman's father did, and she could never figure out how he did that: A bone from a goose, the wings of the goose, the part that goes into the body. Her father drilled through it and put a rod in it, he had three rods, and he used it as a towel holder. You could swing them. There were many, many things her father could make and do. He would repair many things in his shop. Her father said that he was too small, he had to stand on something to use the hammer. You have to hammer that really hard when it is all red iron, so it was not an easy job to learn. One time, her father did some welding. Zimmerman recalls a problem with a damaged oven: \"There were dangerous things that happened.\"\nZimmerman's father was with them too with the farming part. Her father is behind the horses with the sweep. When it was haying time, Zimmerman used to be on the stack, and they pitched all in to the haystack but here (in a photograph they look at), it is being loaded on a hay rack. Zimmerman was heavy enough to put on the stacks. The picture was taken at haying time. Zimmerman thinks that the picture was taken the last time she was there (around 1950).\nAsked about other farm chores, Zimmerman recalls that she had to do the milking. The house was far away from the barn where the pigs were. They carried a lot of slop, heated it up (\"soak up I should say\"), not in summer so much but in winter time. Her mother always warned her: \"Don't take them so full, you can go twice.\" Zimmerman thinks that her crooked back is partly because of this. \nThey had about 10 cows, the milking was all by hand. They had the calves to look after. They also had horses, there wasn't a tractor. It took a long time before they got one. The \"boys\" (her brothers) felt that everybody else got a tractor, \"why can't we\"? They had 16 horses in the barn. Zimmerman shows a picture of the horses. Zimmerman explains why they needed so many horses. All the implements were run with horses. The two-share plough would have five horses, the cultivator had six, and the harrows had four, depending how long they were. They were walking behind that harrow, they didn't have a cart, \"not our people\". A lot of people had a little cart for harrowing. Sometimes they had a single-share plough, and two-share ploughs, which would take up eight horses.\nZimmerman points at the picture of the horses: The white one was a riding horse, \"he was a runner\". She explains the character of this horse. She forgot what happened with him in the end. One time, they went to town, with a democrat, or just a little buggy, and a train was coming; \"Oh man, was he about out of skin.\" And the people standing at the station were afraid that they are gonna be hit. The horse didn't allow them to steer, and the just went over the track, and the train went by. That was when she was still home. The horse didn't drag them into the ditch, he just went wild and jumped like that. That is something she will never forget. It didn't seem that terrible because she didn't realize how close the train was. They passed over the crossing and just made it. The people seeing them all screamed already. Just her brother and Zimmerman were in the wagon when that happened. The horse was so itchy, the sound of the train: they just had to do that with their mouth, and he would go. She doesn't know what caused him to do so. 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She shows a picture: This is west, this was her parents bed room, this was their pantry, and this was the living room. This is part of the living room, and then the door goes up the stairs inside, they changed that window when the siding went on.\nThey look at another picture: Zimmerman's father is doing the potatoes. This is the south end, that's the upstairs room were the boys had their room, Zimmerman's room was on the West side. By the East, they came up the stairs. There was a big window too. The rooms were nice and big upstairs. Downstairs were what was supposed to be the dining room and the kitchen. They had a little part built on where they came in, and that ended up with the kitchen stove, so it became a kitchen. The cream separator was in there as well. She never liked that they lived in the dining room area: Too many doors out of the one room. There was the basement door, the door to go to the upstairs, and the door for the living room. They just had little corner there and the pantry. There was also the bedroom door. It was awkward for a kitchen and a dining room. Before she left, (her brother) Arnold said: \"This is silly, we can do something here.\" He closed up the pantry or the bedroom door, and he put the cupboards there. So they had the pantry not in use but the bedroom became larger. Then they built a sink there. Zimmerman's uncle was the builder of the house. He was a pretty good carpenter. All the doors in there were made.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132891#t=1543.0,1810.04191"}]}]},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 4 of 4 - 2005-091-4145.wav"]},"duration":1482.91918,"width":640,"height":40,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/132/892/small/audio-default.png?1640618494","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/content/4/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-ualberta.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/132/892/original/2005-091-4145.wav?1660932330","type":"Audio","format":"audio/wav","duration":1482.91918,"width":640,"height":40},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Part 4 [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Producing doors, health issues of siblings from childhood to today","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=0.0,452.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman continues to talk about the house her family moved into in 1934. Her uncle made all the doors in the house, the wood was hauled from Birch Lake where they had it cut in the bush. They had a veneer-type panel on the inside-doors, the outside doors had solid wood but they were all hand-made. Some people from farther North came to visit one time and said: \"Eleven doors, and they were all made.\" Her uncle did. Zimmerman then took all for granted but when she got older, she remembered and thought about how to do all that.\nThey had another relative on her mother's side, a cousin, who was a painter, and he painted for them several times. That was things they did when everything became a little better: \"You do things when you are able to do it, you can pay for it.\" In those days when they started, that is a big whole question for her, how did they do that: Coming with children, and more children.\nZimmerman's sister Margaret who died recently was a sick child. They didn't expect her to live, she cried so much. Later, she was a very fast worker, very anxious always. One doctor asked her to come back a few years ago and they couldn't figure out what the problem really was. He discovered that her one lung never developed, it was much smaller. (The interviewer is stunned.) She had these awful colds once in a while. Before that, they said there was nothing they could really do for her. Just now, not long before she went to the (nursing) home, she had heard that this is what had happened, that lung never developed. The parents always said they didn't think she would live, she cried all the time, and she was sick when she was younger. She had to learn to walk a second time. Zimmerman remembers her telling that, Margaret started school when she was about nine. When she hears that all now, it's a real mystery for Zimmerman. Margaret died at the age of 89, she reached the highest age in the whole family so far. Emil who is in Kelowna is two years younger.\nAlbert was a very sick child when he was born. Albert and Arnold were born close together, only 14 months apart. Albert cried so much and had such crooked legs. Her mother would rock him when he was little and couldn't sleep, and he would cry. She held his wrists, then he fell asleep. He must have had some joint problems. Albert was born in 1923.\nAsked about to which of her siblings Zimmerman was the closest, she recalls that she and Arnold stayed home together when they were older. That was ok but when her father got married (for the second time) and moved away, they somehow drifted apart. Now, Emil seems to be the one who...he wants letters all the time. Of course he is lonesome, he is not that well, he daily finds different problems and misses his wife so much. Zimmerman explains where Emil's three children are living. Last year, her brother got a pace maker put in. Arnold also had a pace maker, and Zimmerman herself has had a pace maker for four years. Emil was also diagnosed with diabetes, and that is what really knocked him. Zimmerman doesn't think that he has very long left for here but that's pretty hard to tell. \n\n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=0.0,452.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Vegetable garden","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=452.0,612.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They look at a picture depicting the garden by the house. They grew potatoes. She doesn't know how they could spread out like this as it was a fairly dry year. Zimmerman is asked whether she remembers \"sowing potatoes\". She first understands \"to sell\" them, and when the interviewer repeats the question, she confirms that she \"planted\" them. They did that by hand, they didn't have any machine for that. The gardens were not large enough that you would have used an implement of some kind. Her father worked in the garden only in later years. It was always mother and the girls who worked in the garden. It was just for their own use. They didn't sell anything on the market. Maybe they would help neighbours that didn't have certain things.\nZimmerman states that farm life is nice in a way, your are closer with your neighbours than here (in Winnipeg). Asked why it is that way, Zimmerman explains that she thinks that you want to be more independent in the city. In a sense, the farmers were independent too but there were times when they needed help. She thinks that people on the farm are offering their help more readily than elsewhere.\n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=452.0,612.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WW II, exchanging letters with relatives in Germany","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=612.0,1005.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Asked about WW II, Zimmerman states that she doesn't remember that part that much. Asked about the reactions of a predominately German community to the fact that Canada was going to war against Germany, Zimmerman states that they didn't have a radio yet. There was one family that had a radio, they would listen, and the other would learn what was going on. Zimmerman doesn't remember any special things about people.\nAfterwards, when it was over, they would send... After the war, they started getting letters from one uncle's family from over there. That made them feel a little different, and they started sending parcels. They started to ask for things that didn't seem to make much use, they wanted pretty things and all that... Zimmerman expected people who have nothing to ask for something warm: \"It turns your feelings a little bit too, when they tell you what they want.\" They wanted real sheer nylon stockings. Zimmerman didn't think that this was the right thing to ask for. They sent different things. Their relatives were all in different places. The aunt, the oldest daughter with the son were living together, there was that one grandchild. They were in the Russian zone. Two were in the American zone, the other one was in the British zone. That one sort of disappeared as if...Father used to get letters from her. Zimmerman talks about uncle Adolf and uncle Heinrich. She remembers the first letter that came; it was addressed to \"America\" as if Canada was a part of the United States. An uncle over there didn't look for his wife, he had a different woman after the war. That upset them too, they didn't know what to say or what to do. The second oldest daughter (unclear whose daughter) was the first one to send them letters. The letter reached them because the letter was brought to two cousins living in Winnipeg at that time. There was only the name and Winnipeg on the envelope, no known address. The address was: \"Winnipeg, Missouri\". And at the top of the letter, they had \"USA\". It was all mixed up but the letter came here, and they were just so surprised that it landed here. Zimmerman wrote to her and sent her a few things, and then her mother and sister living in the Russian zone got the information, and they wrote too. And then there was a brother on his own in the American zone. And then there was the one in British zone, she kept writing to Zimmerman's father. Then she sort of disappeared, the family doesn't know where she went. They think that she must have met an American soldier and went to the country here. Some of these relatives came to Canada for a reunion. Uncle Adolf died a few years ago. ","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=612.0,1005.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WW II, church community","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=1005.0,1248.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Zimmerman states that she didn't feel ashamed to speak German during WW II, \"not in the area where we were, no\". Her German isn't that perfect, and talking to others, she can feel that right away when they talk that they have a better pronunciation. In their churches, German was still used during WW II. Just recently because of certain disagreements with a pastor that some people have left. It's not only the pastor, sometimes it's some parts of the congregation that sort of divided a little bit. \"Let's go somewhere else!\" - this it was you hear so much, not only in their congregation.\nIt was in 1947 or 1949 at the Moosehorn church when one pastor wanted to have an English service because there were some in the community that were not German, and the pastor felt that that way they could attract a couple of more people. The pastor pushed the congregation apart in that way. The older members were hurt, they didn't want to see it that way. This was after Zimmerman had left. It is the same thing here (in Winnipeg), there is a big battle on, and people leave.\nZimmerman recalls that they seem to use different hymn books now when she goes to German churches (she hasn't done that very often). She got away from it. Zimmerman states that she should have made a cup of tea for the interviewers: \"My Goodness!\"","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=1005.0,1248.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cultural identity","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=1248.0,1482.91918"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892/index/52215/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Asked about her cultural and ethnic identity, Zimmerman states that she doesn't know if she can answer that question: \"German, English, Canadian\"?\nWhenever she had to fill out (the census form), she had to state that she had German-speaking parents. She thinks she is Canadian. \"Does that leave the German behind? I don't know.\" She doesn't use German that much even with her own family, she hasn't been teaching them German. Her children have been too busy to learn German. Her brother-in-law's wife was from Germany, their children learned German a little bit. Her parents wanted German to be the first language, and they stuck with it. Her daughter doesn't know any German. She and her husband just never used it, very seldom, by themselves, when they were in company with German-speaking people. It was a mixed-up language, not that good. ","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58658/file/132892#t=1248.0,1482.91918"}]}]}]}