World War, 1914-1918--German Canadians

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Lawrence Hafer interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Christmas party at Deutscher Verein before 1914; Christmas at Hafer's; parents met in the German Club; mother's arrival; mother's relatives; father's background; fathers work as a machinist, now Hafer Machine Company Limited; land in Keating; return to Germany; father's machine shop; people of German background that father know; Masonic Lodge; German Lutheran Church; Dr. Otto Gerbich; father's death; Alvo von Alvensleben; mother's difficulties; farm and life in Keating; mother was "the neighbour of neighbours", a pioneer woman; German language died out in 1914; further education; road to Victoria; Farmer's Market; apprenticeship; mistake corrected; journeyman's time in the U.S., working with the help of relatives; German language after WWI; Victoria in 1924; own shop in Keating; WWII work for the airport; fountain system at Butchart Gardens; retired in 1968. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Mary Bergbusch interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-07 & 08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; father's arrival in Winnipeg in 1891; minister; father's background and training; 1904 to South Edmonton; father's career; mother; parent's contribution to Canadian life; Mrs. Bergbusch's personal life in her youth; impact of WWI on the family; children chose friends without consideration of background; high school in 1917; Armistice; effects of WWI experiences; teacher training; normal school, teaching new Canadians; newcomers after WWI, mostly Germans from Eastern Europe, dispossessed by the Russian Revolution; husband, training, why future husband came to Canada; call; by church to preach to German communities in Manitoba; wedding; New Surrepta (Alberta); trip to Germany in 1931; reactions to trip; the Depression in New Sarepta; had harvest, no cash; to more well-to do Spruce Grove in 1936; cow; second-hand Ford for twelve years; WWII effect on people of German background in this country. TRACK 2: Military service; WWII effects on language of religious services; English and German church services alternated; husband's career; in 1949 to Saskatoon; English was the language of the Synod; children to university; their careers; why and when to Victoria; starting Good Shepherd Church in Victoria in 1955 at the age of 59; services at 9:00 in English, 10:30 in German; arrival of newcomers, better trained; housing, work; interest in church, gratitude; development of Good Shepherd Church until 1967; congregation without Bergbusch; present status of these immigrants from the 1950s; success as defined by Mrs. Bergbusch; a wish in German; voice of Reverend Bergbusch, aged 86 [?].

Maxwell Kirkpatrick-Crockett interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-05-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Major Maxwell Kirkpatrick-Crockett talks about his arrival in Vancouver in 1911; early jobs in Vancouver; work in Victoria; Arthur Currie; commission with the Fifth Regiment; Victoria at the; outbreak of World War I; coast defense batteries at Esquimalt in 1914; the affair of the "BC submarines"; fear of coastal attacks; state of coast defenses; the 5th Regiment sent to Nanaimo because of rioting [i.e., striking] coal miners; the damage at Extension. TRACK 2: Major Kirkpatrick-Crockett continues speaking about incidents at Extension; Ladysmith; German interest in British Columbia in; 1914; [von] Alvensleben; anti-German feeling; history of St. John's Church; Victoria; Christ Church; Bishop Hills; Reverend Cridge and conditions in Victoria after World War I; work in the Victoria Machinery Depot and for the City of Victoria.