Bruno, Comox 1944. Elizabeth wrote on the photo: Haven’t I got a lovely husband. I get crazier about him every day. This is on our little beach in Sidney. The tide is out a little when it’s in the water comes right up to the logs
Bruno and Elizabeth with parents John H.W. and Anna Reimer. Hamilton Ontario, December 31, 1943 (Bruno and Elizabeth’s wedding)
H.W. Reimers Ltd. c. early forties
On the left is the house where Elizabeth was born, 1925. Caption of this newspaper photo (from the Carillon Dec. 3, 1975): The old H.W. Reimer Store in Steinbach just before it was broken down after closing permanently in January, 1964. This was Steinbach’s oldest business, established in 1886 by the late Henry W. Reimer. At the time of its last remodelling in 1914, the store, with 17,600 square feet, had no equal size in rural Manitoba and only a few stores in Winnipeg were larger or better stocked. For 75 years, the store was an institution familiar to practically everyone in southeastern Manitoba. Its exit from the scene was particularly painful to dozens of oldtimers who spent long hours around the ‘cracker barrel’ in the corner in the hardware department and who found the post office a poor substitute after the store was gone
Bruno & Elizabeth – Sidney, B.C. 1944. Elizabeth wrote on the back of the photo: At Sidney on the wharf. This is where we tried to fish but no luck the fish swim around where you can see them but they just don’t bite. It’s exasperating to say the least. This is also where we saw the sea lion
Elizabeth and Bruno on their wedding day Dec 31, 1943, Hamilton, Ontario
Shoe department at H.W. Reimers Ltd.
Elizabeth’s father, John H.W. Reimer, teaching his sister Margaret to drive. 1918. Passengers unknown
Elizabeth’s parents’ wedding day, September 1919
Grandma Reimer’s funeral, 1932. Grandma (Anna H.W.) Reimer Anna, Henry, Katherine, Jac, Grandpa, Klaas, John, Peter, Margaret and Ben
John H.W. Reimer, holding Naomi, below l–r his wife Anna and sister Margaret. Pike’s Peak, 1920
Bruno Derksen 1945
Uncle Henry Reimer in his youth
Anna H.W. Reimer (Tante Ennie) in her youth
H.W. Reimer house, newly built with great-grandfather Klaas Reimer’s house beside it to the right
H.W. Reimer home c. 1915
The family in exile, Sperling 1932
Aunt Margaret, Aunt Annie, Aunt Katherine
Back (l-r) Cousin Adeline, Elizabeth (baby in the back), nurse-maid. Front (l-r) Wendy and Naomi
l–r Naomi, Elizabeth, Wendy, Martini; in front, Hildie. Sperling, 1931