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It is on her uncle's farm. His name was Heinrich Purpuriser (?). It was a custom they brought over from Germany from where they lived, and it's still going to the present date. They make a bird, and all the male members shoot, and whoever shoots the bird down becomes king. It was a wooden bird. The previous king would make a bird for the next year. It is always a different bird. The men wear white clothing, with bands of the Schützenfest colours were green and white. The king picks his queen but it's not usually his wife, it's some other person, and they pick what they call a \"Hofstaat\" (court or royal household) consisting of about four different couples. After the shootings, they have sausage and rye bread, and they eat it outside. Around three o'clock, they pick up the queen and the king, and go to the neighbouring farm. They have a band and march back. Arndt forgot to mention something: Usually around 10 o'clock in the morning, they have a mass in the Little Britain church, and then they go to the cemetery, and they lay a wreath. They have a band and sing the German song \"Ich hatt' einen Kameraden\". They get back to the hall where all the guests are sitting down to coffee and cake. There are speeches. There is a dance in the evening and a lot of entertainment for the children. On Sunday afternoon, they had again coffee and cake and another dance in the evening.\nArndt has described the Schützenfest as she experienced it at a later period, in the 1930s, they didn't have a hall, they had it at her uncle's home. they had it up in the barn. They built a platform outside for the dance. they always played German music, they always had a live band.\nThe mass was in German, now it's in English but they still sing a few hymns in German. Now it's English because of the mixed marriages and the guests that are coming. Years back it was in German. They used to get the German priests from the city (Winnipeg) but Arndt doesn't know how many priests can speak German now.\nArndt always attended the Schützenfest as a little girl. Arndt's parents lived at Little Britain for only a year or two, and then they moved away (to Winnipeg). It was always exciting to go to the Schützenfest. She always wanted to know who is queen. They didn't always go right away in the morning. Her father would go and do the shooting, then he would phone them and tell them who is queen, king and \"Hofstaat\". She hasn't missed a Schützenfest in her whole life.\nArndt would go to her uncle's and aunt's place and stay over night during the holidays. The hall was built only after the war, maybe in the 1960s. The hall burnt down but was rebuilt, which is the one there now. About nine years ago, a new church was built in Little Britain. There were two different German groups in Little Britain, one from Westfalen, and the other one from Schwarzwald. Her family came from Westfalen. The Schützenfest came from Westfalen but the people from Schwarzwald joined them celebrating it as it was something from Germany.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=8.0,531.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"churches","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dance","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family life","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"halls","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"immigration","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"music","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"priests","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=8.0,531.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Schützenfest\" (riflemen's festival)","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"English","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Germans","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=8.0,531.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Decorations at the Schützenfest","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=531.0,681.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt's grandmother came over from Germany in 1934 to visit her mother (i. e. her grandmother's daughter) and other sons, and she brought the flag (for the Schützenfest). They still have the flag today, and it is still used when there is a funeral or a mass. Her grandmother also brought the necklace over for the Schützenfest king. It is made of medallions which have to be attached to that necklace but in all those years, the necklace was getting too heavy, so they had to get another necklace.\nArndt continues to describe the picture: They put a lot of trees there in order to make it look festive. She remembers when she made parties herself in the basement of her house, she put cut trees all along the wall. Arndt thinks that there was a group photo at the Schützenfest. There must be a lot of these photographs in Little Britain but not that many as one might think as people don't keep things that much.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=531.0,681.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family life","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"funerals","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"necklaces","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"photographs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=531.0,681.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A photograph of Arndt's mother, German migration to Little Britain, Manitoba; family background","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=681.0,1171.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Photograph number 2 depicts Arndt's mother on a wagon filled with something (probably not hay). It looks like corn her mother is throwing down. There's a horse on the bottom. They lived in a commune, all had to work.\nArndt talks about the migration from Germany to Little Britain, Manitoba. There was a Catholic priest and a Dr. Schneider who went to Germany to recruit migrants. Arndt has a book on that. In 1927, farmers were recruited from Westfalen and Schwarzwald to come to Canada. They had to pay 5,000 dollars to come. They bought this property in Little Britain. Arndt doesn't know why the people came from those two areas which aren't close together. Dr. Schneider came from the Schwarzwald. Asked why it cost so much money, Arndt thinks it was due to the fact that they had to buy this land. They all had to contribute, and they had to have some money to start. They had to build a house where they all could live. They lived communally for about one year, not too long. Arndt says that she should get the book so that the interviewer could read it, because it says in there how they lived. \nArndt doesn't know who the second person in the photograph is. It was taken in 1928. Her mother didn't do a lot of farm chores like that. Basically, the women didn't do a lot of farm chores in Little Britain, only at the beginning a bit. The women did things like cooking the meals, cleaning the fish, looking after the children. They didn't have to many cows or cattle at the beginning. Their intention was not to live in a commune but they were going to divide the land up. It was just for the first year.\nAsked why Arndt's parents left Little Britain after two years, Arndt recalls that her father wasn't actually a farmer, so they decided to go to the city. Back in Germany, her father worked as a \"Kaufmann\" or sales man. Her father's father had some land and sold grain, they also had a \"Wirtschaft\" (pub) on their property.\nLittle Britain was \"everything\" for her mother who was glad that she had Little Britain. Her mother's brother lived out there, and her other brother later moved away. Not everybody stayed there. Her parents' social life was in Little Britain. For the children, too, it was their social life.\nArndt recalls that her mother was around 25 when she came to Canada, her father 30. They hadn't been married for too long when they moved to Canada. They got married in Germany and then they came over. Not all of the women who came were married. Her uncle went back and picked up her aunt. She was a cousin to her father. Her other uncle...Arndt's grandmother met a lady on the ship and thought how nice she was, so she sort of arranged the marriage for Arndt's uncle. This lady visited her grandmother in Germany, and then she came to Canada to marry Arndt's uncle. A lot of the men who came weren't married. They later married people they knew.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=681.0,1171.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"communes","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cooking","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family life","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"farm chores","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"farm life","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"immigration","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sales personnel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=681.0,1171.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Life at Little Britain, Manitoba","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=1171.0,1241.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt never went fishing. She has no idea who did the fishing in Little Britain. She wasn't born at the time when the picture was taken. Maybe somebody went fishing or they bought the fish along the road. They look at a picture where the women are cleaning fish together. They lived together at that time. She thinks that married people had two rooms and unmarried one room but they didn't have a stove in every room, like a cooking stove. Arndt thinks that the people had a pretty good time when they were all living together. They all had their own private room.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=1171.0,1241.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"communes","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cooking","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fishing","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=1171.0,1241.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Life of parents, relationship with Germany","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=1241.0,1486.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt recalls that her mother always missed Germany. She thinks that her mother would have preferred to stay in Germany. Arndt asks the interviewer if she has been to smaller places in Germany. Everything there is so nice: the churches, the farms, the neighbours, it was quite a change to come to Little Britain. There were mud roads, the winters, it wasn't that an easy life. Her mother always liked Germany, and Arndt thinks she would have liked to stay in Germany. Arndt thinks that her father liked it more here. He worked as an insurance agent. For many years, they had a rooming house. Her father took several trips to Germany to recruit more people (to Little Britain). Some people went to Rossburn (?), some to Petersfield. Some people went back to Germany, before the war because they wanted to fight in the war. She thinks that the reactions weren't negative, as they all were \"really German\", and that (Germany) was their country. They had a little more attachment to it. \"Now you can speak differently because of the outcome of the whole thing (WII)\", but at that time it was different. Arndt's parents went to Germany every year later in life. Her parents are both buried in Germany, they both died there. Her mother had heart problems and passed away while she was in Germany. Her father came back with her sister. A year later, her father went to Germany although he wasn't well at all but he insisted on going, and he passed away in Germany too. Her mother said if she would pass away in Germany, she wants to be buried there because the cemeteries are so nice and well kept. Arndt's parents are buried in their hometown. Her parents came from the same place. Her mother was on the farm, about five kilometres away, and her father more in the town. The place is called Liesborn, (Westphalia). \n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=1241.0,1486.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cemeteries","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"insurance agents","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nostalgia","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"travel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=1241.0,1486.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Small talk with the interviewers","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=1486.0,1522.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt whispers a question: \"You do this a lot, you two?\" The interviewers laugh and say that they have done quite a few interviews. Arndt asks if they go to German people, they reply that they go to whoever will talk to them. (They laugh.) Arndt says that's \"kind of neat\". The interviewers state that they like what they are doing. They are offered coffee and muffins. \n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=1486.0,1522.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Family background, trips to Germany in the 1930s","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986#t=1522.0,1804.0976"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132986/index/52133/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt recalls that all her siblings are born in Winnipeg. Nobody was born there as there was no hospital. Her grandmother's only visit to Canada was in 1934. The whole family went to Germany in 1935. She can't remember much. They went again in 1938: Her mother, her uncle, her sister and she. Asked about how her family could afford that, Arndt explains that she never asks but she had a feeling that her grandmother must have sent some money. Her mother's family had a nice farm but they also had eight children. In addition to her mother and two of her brothers, another brother came after the war (to Canada). Arndt's grandfather was still alive when her grandmother came to Canada, he stayed in Germany. She thinks he had to look after the farm. Maybe the costs, she has no idea. Arndt doesn't remember both trips to Germany. She thinks she hasn't a good memory. She can't remember being on the train or ship.\nArndt recalls that they were lucky that they weren't stuck in Germany in 1938. She doesn't know how long they stayed in Germany. She just knows she went. 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She doesn't remember meeting family in Germany, she didn't have any cousins by then. She has cousins but they are all a bit younger. Her mother was the first child in the family who got married. She also has some cousins in Canada. She still has about 10 cousins in Germany. Arndt spent a lot of time with family in Canada. She used to go to Little Britain during the summer holidays. There was one cousin who lived with them in Winnipeg in order to attend a Catholic school to receive catechism. There place was some sort of meeting place for her mother's brothers. Every Friday they were in town. The went to Eaton's, to the Bay. 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It was taken in 1934. Her sister was a year older than her. In the picture from left to right: Arndt's father William (Wilhelm) Vielhaber, Hedy, her brother William, her sister Mary, her mother Katherine, her brother Herbert. She has another sister who was born after the picture was taken. She is eight years younger than she is. Arndt is holding a bunny in her arms in the picture. She doesn't remember whether that was a toy of her.\n(Arndt asks if she can go to the archives and listen to her interview. She is amazed that she will get a copy of the interview. The interviewer explains that first all the interviews will go to the University of Alberta because that's who started the project, and then hopefully all the Manitoba interviews will go to the Manitoba Archives. But it will take a little while because there is a huge volume of interviews that have been done. Asked whether she does only German interviews, the interviewer explained that she is doing mostly German but there are also others working with French, English and Ukrainian, the four largest ethnic groups on the Prairies before the war. But anyone who wants to talk to them is welcome.)\nArndt explains that the picture is the only study photograph she has with her parents and siblings. William is her oldest brother, followed by Herbert, Mary and herself. Actually, her name is Hedwig but she doesn't go by Hedwig, she goes by Hedy. She was close to her sister Mary a year and a month older than her. Mary died about 27-28 years ago. She had an aneurism. She was a sister in a convent. Arndt herself never thought about something like that, and their mother would have preferred that her sister wouldn't have become a nun. Her mother sort of lost a daughter. In those days, the nuns had habits and couldn't come home, and when they came home, they had to bring another sister with them.  They just didn't get out of the convent like they do now. Later, her sister would even go to a bar and went to the Schützenfest in Little Britain. But she wouldn't do that when she first entered the convent. Now, most of the sisters don't even have a habit.\nThe family picture wasn't in an album, her mother had them altogether but not on display. They didn't have many pictures hanging in the house. She doesn't have many either, she doesn't know why. She doesn't like pictures all over the house. She doesn't have any family pictures in the house except for in the bedroom. 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Because of the insurance business, they always had a lot of people in their house. Her father insured everything in Little Britain. Thus she got to know all the Little Britain crowd. Arndt doesn't know what to say about her father: \"Just a good father.\" He was quiet but loved to talk a lot when people came over. She doesn't remember doing anything with her father. Sometimes, they would go with him in the country to visit the customers by car. Her parents \"weren't brought up to go to a lake\". They would go only to Little Britain. Later on, they would have a dance every Saturday night in the hall. Her father would work at the door and sell tickets, her mother would work in the kitchen. A lot of their social life was in Little Britain.\nArndt describes her mother as hard-working, times were quite hard at first. She would often help her brothers when they would slaughter, and she would bring home stuff like sausages and \"Bratwurst\" what they used to make at that time; they don't do it anymore. Her mother was very close to her brothers. She was the only girl of the family in Canada, there were two girls and six boys. Her mother was a homemaker and a wonderful cook, she sewed well and knitted well. \nArndt's parents were very active church goers, so they were busy with the church a lot. There were times when they were saying the rosary every night at the kitchen table. Religion was a big thing but her parents weren't fanatics. 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Her parents were pretty good in English, they could write very well too. When they went to a camp in the summer, her mother always wrote them letters in English. Arndt never took German Saturday school or something like that. Then the war came, and all German schools were closed. Arndt states that she speaks German now. She understood a lot and could speak if she had to. She went to Germany before she was married and stayed there for six months. Her husband and her in-laws also were German. And she still speaks German sometimes to different people she met in Little Britain, like some of her mother's friends. As her husband was German, they associated a lot with German people. They did talk a lot more German when they first came over. They had parties, and there was a lot of German. Arndt wouldn't feel comfortable answering questions in German. She got away from it because she doesn't speak it that much. Her husband and she spoke mostly English. Her husband came in 1953 from Ludwigsburg. 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There was also a sisters' convent and a rectory.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132987#t=898.0,1042.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132987/index/52132/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"education","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school camps","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"schools","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132987#t=898.0,1042.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132987/index/52132/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Photograph: Children in a wagon; children's games","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132987#t=1042.0,1387.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132987/index/52132/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt identifies herself in a photograph depicting a group of children in a wagon (right at the end). She thinks that the picture was taken in Little Britain. In the picture is also her brother Bill (William) and her cousin Karl, her brother Herb, her sister Mary, and her cousin Phil: \"It was an awful load of us there\".\nArndt doesn't know what they are doing in the picture, they were sitting in the wagon and someone was pulling them. She thinks they were there on a visit because the children all look dressed up. Her brother wears a sailor outfit. It must have been a Sunday outing or something. They went there on Sunday afternoons, Germans always have coffee and cake. They would probably have dinner or supper in the evening. Arndt recalls that she had a very good relationship with her cousins because her mother was very close to her brothers. They still see each other on a social basis, they go out together, invite them over, have dinner together. Compared to her children and their cousins, it's not the same. The reason it that Arndt was always in Little Britain as a child, they just grew up with everybody there, and she still knows everybody there. Little Britain was not far from Winnipeg, there were street cars going there but they drove as her father always had a car. There was also a bus going there.\nArndt recalls that they played a lot outside but she can't remember what they did exactly. They played for example skipping. Even in the city, they did a lot of skipping, and they played a lot with balls. They also played \"Kick the can\". They also went skating. They didn't have a lot organized sports, they did everything on their own. Arndt's brothers did not play with her that much because of the age difference, her oldest brother is five years older than her. Her sister and her played more together. The boys played their own things. Basically, Arndt played with girls. All the children in the family went to the Immaculate Conception school. 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She remembers sewing them up. They wrapped it in a box and put material around it. They did it because the parcels would go by ship and they wouldn't break up. All her aunts also sent a lot of parcels.\nNobody was killed in her mother's family during the war. She thinks that her relatives living on a farm didn't have it quite as bad as people living in certain cities like Hamburg or Dresden which were bombed. She thinks that these cities suffered more. 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The message reached the Ries family too. There were two girls and six boys in the family. Their main interest was in agriculture. According to the tradition, the eldest son Henry was to inherit the family farm. However, with young parents and seven brothers and sisters, still to be raised and educated, waiting for the inheritance wasn't practical. In Germany at that time, it was impossible to buy land, let alone a farm. The best alternative was to manage someone else's farm. Henry had done this for five years, and now at the age of 25, was well experienced, he was full of enthusiasm and anxious to set out on his own.\" Arndt explains that she is talking about her uncle, Henry, it's not her father. She continues to read: \"Dr. Schneider arranged meetings with those interested in immigrating to familiarize them with regulations and provisions required. Those interested in becoming shareholders in the Canadian land property would be required to provide a downpayment of 5,000 marks.\"\nArndt remembers that she said 5,000 dollars earlier in the interview. She continues to read:\n\"Dr. Schneider had been to Canada to purchase a 3,400 acres farm with the help of the Canada Colonization Association. This farm belonged to a wealthy American, Mr. Bennett who bought the land as an investment and was now retiring. This property was to divided among 30 German shareholders. Each shareholder was to bring one helper. This suited Henry's adventurous brother Karl who had been a perpetual student up to this point and was lacking own funds.\" (Arndt explains that Karl was her other uncle.)","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132987#t=1655.0,1802.61152"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132987/index/52132/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"immigration","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132987#t=1655.0,1802.61152"}]}]},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 3 of 4 - 2005-091-4159.wav"]},"duration":1804.0976,"width":640,"height":40,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/132/988/small/audio-default.png?1640629473","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/content/3/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-ualberta.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/132/988/original/2005-091-4159.wav?1660933874","type":"Audio","format":"audio/wav","duration":1804.0976,"width":640,"height":40},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Part 3 [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt reads a book section on the arrival of the immigrants at Little Britain","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=0.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt explains that the book section she read in the previous segment is \"more or less how they came\" to Canada. 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Some women immediately started to cook, others brought in the luggage and started to unpack, and two men milked the six cows that were there with mixed feelings, and already some homesickness had set in. Once the community was established, the women and five girls looked after the large common household and the men began to clear the bush. By seeding time in May, 400 acres of grass and bushland was cleared an sown with flax.\"","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=0.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"farming","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"immigration","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=0.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Writings by family members, German songs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=120.0,247.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt recalls that her aunt described some aspects of their life in Little Britain, and her uncle wrote a diary on the ship. She and someone else translated it into English. Arndt looks through some papers, she finds \"Das Lied der Deutsch-Kanadier\" (The Song of the German-Canadians), written by Bernhard Batt (?). They sing it to the melody of the German anthem \"Deutschland über alles\". Arndt has never heard of it before, probably her mother had the lyrics.\nArndt reads the lyrics (in German): \"Deutsch-Kanadier reicht die Hände, zu der Freundschaft festen Bund. Lass German in Treue walten, gibt die Kraft der Eintracht kund (?). Zeigt euer ernstes Wollen vor dem ganzen Erdenrund. Deutsch-Kanadier reicht die Hände, zu der Freundschaft festen Bund.\" Probably her mother saw the lyrics in a newspaper and cut it out. Everybody wrote a little bit about their family (obviously in the book she read aloud before).\n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=120.0,247.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"diaries","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"immigration","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"songs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"translations","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=120.0,247.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Germans","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=120.0,247.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Decline of the Little Britain settlement","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=247.0,348.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt continues to read a section: \"By the time the Depression set in, and prices for agricultural products were very low, the moral of the group was not at its best. Only six shareholders remained in the West group. They decided to split into three groups of two. Lots were drawn and Henry (her uncle) was paired up with Henry Sudorb (?). After three years, the two parted again, everything was equally divided and a drought took place.\"\nArndt recalls that many left, some went to Rossburn (?) or Petersfield. She doesn't know why they left. The immigrants didn't come at once either, some came later.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=247.0,348.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"droughts","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=247.0,348.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Depression","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=247.0,348.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A photograph of Arndt's parental home, clothing, cold storage","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=348.0,762.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt describes a picture of her parental home. The house was like a tenement. Her parents had it as a rooming house. First, the family lived across the street on the same street. There were a few people that lived in that house. Arndt states that her brother who is five years older than her can probably remember a lot more. It was a two-storey house and had a shed. Arndt shared her room with her sister, and later on with her younger sister. Her two brothers also shared a room. Later they moved to McDermot Avenue. She had been around 20 then.\nArndt explains a knitted decoration on her hat, looking at the photograph. (Obviously, she is standing with family in front of the house). It looked like helmets. She wore a fur coat then. Arndt thinks that the photograph was taken on a Sunday. In those days, people dressed up a little bit more: \"I think it's cute.\" She thinks everything becomes a bit sloppy nowadays, including herself. The boys wore pants and socks. And they wore shoes, nowadays, nobody knows what a shoe is. She laments that young people wear runners and are sloppy. Arndt asks the interviewer if she thinks that people dress better in Germany today? The interviewer states that she thinks so.\nArndt recalls that she remembers one fellow who used to come over with a bike, and he would do all the upholstery work, he even went to Little Britain. He would come if someone needed to have something fixed on the couch. He would also come with the ice, they had a \"fridge\" (ice box) in the back. They would also get vegetables from Arndt's aunt and took it to Manitoba Cold Storage where one could buy a locker there (the building burned down later). Not everyone had freezers then, they had an ice box. The farmers took their stuff there too but they also canned a lot. Arndt's mother canned too but no meat. \n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=348.0,762.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"canning","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clothing","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fur","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"houses","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ice","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"photographs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sheds","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shoes","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"upholstery","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=348.0,762.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Manitoba Cold Storage","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=348.0,762.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Family history of the interviewers, Mennonites in Paraguay","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=762.0,915.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt suggests that the interviewer should be familiar with canning because of her grandparents. She asks where the interviewer's parents are from. The interviewer replies that they came from Russia after WWII. Arndt asks how many children came with the interviewer's grandparents. She explains that five children came with her paternal grandparents, and another one was born here. Her mother was born in Canada, and she is the oldest of her siblings. Arndt asks where the interviewer's grandparents married - in Canada. The interviewer's maternal grandparents met in a refugee camp in Germany. Arndt asks the second interviewer about her family history. She states that her grandparents were also from Russia, Russian Mennonites. Her maternal grandparents met in Canada in 1949 when her Oma (grandmother) came, her Opa (grandfather) came in 1948. Her father's family went to Brazil from Germany because they couldn't get into Canada. Her father and all his siblings were born in Brazil and came to Canada in 1970. Arndt is amazed that they probably speak Portuguese. 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Arndt didn't know Mennonites when she was growing up.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=762.0,915.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Germans","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mennonites","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Portuguese","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=762.0,915.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nationalities in Winnipeg, reflections on the Holocaust, WWII","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988#t=915.0,1352.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58689/file/132988/index/52131/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arndt recalls that they were the only ones who went to a parochial school in the whole area. They always had to walk. She doesn't remember ever anyone else going with them. Most of the children on their street went to different schools. The people there weren't mostly English: There were Ukrainians, French, and people in the rooming house would come and go. Arndt thinks that there were more Ukrainian people in that neighbourhood, not too many Germans. Arndt asks the interviewers if they have met a lot of Germans who came in the 1927s. The interviewer explains that most Germans who came in these years were Mennonites. Arndt states that Germans came a lot after the war. Arndt had very little contact to other Germans in the city. Asked whether Arndt's father was a member of the \"Deutscher Bund\" or took part in the German Days-celebration, Arndt says no, nothing. Arndt doesn't remember the German Day-celebrations in the 1930s. The interviewer explains that they were held at a park in South Osborne (Winnipeg). The interviewer describes the German Days, Arndt is amazed. However, Arndt remembers her father mentioning the German Club but she doesn't think that her parents went much there. They congregated to Little Britain. She thinks that people in Little Britain did not much associate with other Germans in Winnipeg. They had each other in Little Britain, and her mother had her brothers. There was no German school in Little Britain. Arndt thinks that the war made a big difference, she thinks they didn't want to draw attention to themselves. She states that \"you have to be so careful\". Even now she heard someone complaining on the German pope (Benedict XVI). Arndt mentions that \"that Holocaust, they just constantly bring that up, right?\" Her parents never talked about the Holocaust, and she didn't ask. She doesn't remember when she first heard about it, maybe from her husband in the late 1950s. It never interested her. Arndt doesn't remember if her parents listened to radio reports on what was going on in Germany during the war. 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She went to school, went to church, \"went here, went there\" but didn't think much of it.\nArndt doesn't know if the animals at Little Britain had names, they weren't treated like the pets nowadays. 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