The Steiner Family in Canada
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John and Rosina Steiner came to Canada from Hungary in 1893. John was born on June 2, 1862, and Rosina was born October 28, 1868. They lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba for three years, and John went west with the CPR building tracks through the mountains. He went as far as field, dynamiting rock and building trestles. Crushed rock for the road bed was made by breaking up larger rocks by hand with hammers.
John and Rosina Steiner were blessed by six beautiful children named Rosina, Mrs. Ed. Milbrandt in Vancouver, Paul, John, Mike and Henry.
Paul remembers his father walking out onto trestles and testing them for safety and then saying that it was okay for the locomotives to then cross. The men, John and his brother Mike Steiner, knew no English, so they had a man write a letter in English saying “bread to eat”, so that the men could go to the store and get bread. The first time they used the letter, the storekeeper handed them a box of shirts – the letter writer had played a joke on John and Mike. The men returned to Winnipeg, and went south to Neche, North Dakota on threshing gangs. They worked from dawn until dusk for $1 per day. The year was 1895. John left Mike in North Dakota, and came to Whitemouth, when he heard of Dave Ross’s sawmill.
John built a house that was a hole in the ground shored up with timbers on the side of the creek where. Paul and Henry affectionately called it the “gopher hole”.
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Threshing at Gus Noel’s farm
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Threshing outfit, Gus Noel’s farm (present day Earl Klepatz). For additional information, threshing is the process where the edible part of cereal grain is loosened from the scaly, inedible chaff around it. Threshing is done by beating the cereal grain using a thrash on a threshing floor. In other areas threshing is done by spreading the grain on the country road so the grain may be threshed by the passing vehicle’s wheels.
Threshing at Noel's farm
How did Rose and Jake Stark end up together
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After taking over the farm on 1937 from the Bischke’s, Rose Noel met Alex Maron (he was a neighbour’s son) and married him on the same year.
When Rose and Alex were married, life was no different than before. The land was farmed, cows milked, cream separated, and the garden tended. They had two children: Eunice and Melvin. Alex passed away in 1945, and Rose sold the horses and farm machinery, and rented the farm to the first Mennonite family that came to the Whitemouth area in 1945.
In the meantime, Rose went to a wedding in Whitemouth. There, she met Jake Stark, visiting from Steinbach, attending the wedding of the daughter of his uncle, Steve Stark. The couple married in 1948, and took up the farm again on April 7th, 1948. Rose and Jake have one son, Dennis.
Before Jake married Rose, he lived near Steinbach on a farm with his parents. He and his brother cut jackpine and cedar shingles (on a shingle-maker) for a man named Davidson at Marchand. After he was married, he farmed and worked out, first for Vadeboncouer in 1948, cutting birch off the river bank east of Oscar Noel’s farm. The brush was cut away before the forebay was brought to its present level. He then operated a cat and sheeps-foot packer, packing the new dikes. That winter, he drove a White truck for Vadeboncouer hauling rock out of the new tailrace channel below the power house. He then worked for Carter Construction on the 5th and 6th generators doing carpentry work for $1.10 per hour. In the early 50’s he worked, building MacArthur Falls power house. He then worked on a small power house at Ear Falls. Ontario with Herman Beeskau, Willie and Ed Liske. He then worked for Malcolm Construction at the Atomic Energy Site. They built the research and development building. then a storage warehouse, the power-house and then the reactor building. He was the second man hired on at Pinawa by Malcolm Construction.
In 1965, he built his new dairy barn, and started a dairy herd. His first shipment of milk to Grunthal dairy was on July 11, 1967. After Jake drove around among the neighbours and persuaded 15 to ship milk, Hamm Transfer came to the area and picked it up.
The farm was sold in October of 1978: they now have retired into a house in Whitemouth.
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Noel Farm at Seven Sisters
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Bill Noel on four horse plow on Noel farm at Seven Sisters, now under water.
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Memories of Rose Noel before becoming Mrs. Stark
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Two brothers, Gus and Richard Noel came from Volhynia, Poland to Canada around 1906. They stayed at the Gottlieb Bischke farm. Gottlieb and Augusta Bischke were the brothers’ aunt and uncle. Richard Noel met Ida Jobb when Ida was working in Whitemouth at Stillman’s store, or while she worked at Bayse’s store. They were married in 1914, at the old Oldenburg church. They lived at the Bischke farm for one year, and then took up a homestead at Seven Sisters.
Rose’s earliest memories of the homestead are of the heavy bush, muskeg, sand flies, and mosquitoes. The family had oxen, and would drive them with a cart to Whitemouth for groceries. Before oxen, the pioneers walked to Whitemouth carrying crocks of butter on shoulder yokes. Supplies would then be carried home the same way.
Rose’s memories of the old falls are of many tourists and local people coming down to fish or relax at the beach. Father (Richard) made ice cream, and sold it. He also sold some butter, cream, milk, and eggs to the people down at the falls. Father had a rowboat that the children spent many hours in just below the falls.
School (at Art Schultz’s farm) was over seven miles away, which was too far to walk every day. Rose and Sister Hertha went to live with Uncle Gottlieb Bischke on the farm east of Oldenburg to be close to school. The girls lived there permanently, walking home to Seven Sisters many times, especially in the summer. The roads were good, and occasionally the girls would catch a ride with passing horses and buggies or cars. The Seven Sisters and “Tin Town” areas were growing fast at the time, due to the power house construction. Each visit was interesting, because there were always new buildings. Rose remembers especially the Tourist Hotel building being built.
Starting in 1929, Rose took organ lessons from Freda Herzog (Mrs. Ewald Kosloske) and Ed Lange. The lessons lasted three years. In 1930, Rose started playing the organ in the pioneer Oldenburg church for Pastor Voss, and started giving organ lessons to neighbours. She still plays the organ at St. Paul church at River Hills and at Ross United church in Whitemouth.
Rose came to live with the Bischkes when she was 6 years old, and never left the farm. She took the farm over in 1937 from the Bischke’s; Gottlieb and August never had any children of their own.
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Bischke’s Usual Sunday
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This is an old photo showing a usual Sunday get-together at Mr. and Mrs. Bischke’s. Starting from the left, there is Rudolph Beeskau, Mrs. Augusta Bischke, Lydia Davenport (Schultz), Flora Hastings (Schultz) and Gus Noel, 1918.
- Bischke’s Usual Sunday taken in 1918
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A Brief Story about Jane Tait
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July 14, 1901 marks the date of Jane Tait’s birth at River Hills close to Seven Sisters. Her mother was a Canadian from Ontario and her father was an Englishman from England. Coming from the west, Mr. Tait immigrated to Canada when he was 18 years old. At a very young age he sought for work in the area and luckily found one as a foreman for the CPR and did some farm work too.
Jane’s parents built a log house, and they hunted for deer or moose for their food. They also gathered wild fruits such as berries as there were no fruit for sale in the market.
Then the depression came, which had a big effect on Canadian people. It was not easy but all of them struggled through it. In fact, Jane still remember how the hall burned down to the ground during those times.
Doctor Ross’s house was the first building in town. There was a small station located where the present CPR station is located. The store owner was Howard Corrigan whose building was called Fort Howard. To purchase the goods, people used a special type of coin. Many people worked at the brickyard. The employer was Dave Wardrop. There weren’t very many stores in those times so peddlers came around selling little trinkets.
Jane attended the school on Polka Street in Whitemouth, she studied until grade 5.
Seven Sisters power dam was under construction around 1928. For entertainment they sang songs or just visited with their neighbours. Jane Tait feels those were the ‘Good old days”. The people socialized more and there was no competition between the people. Everybody worked hard but people were poor and they were still happy.
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Wedding at South St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
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June 1914, wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Noel. Taken at South St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Oldenburd.
Walter Steiner
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Walter Steiner’s grandparents arrived to Canada because it was not easy to make money in Europe. They purchased a homestead where Walter Steiner resides today and cleared it. Mr. Steiner’s grandpa travelled to Saskatchewan to assist with the harvest to earn some extra money.
Mr. Steiner attended Oldenburg School where he finished grade 7. His father and mother engaged in building or threshing bees with the neighbours.
