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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February 6th, 2010