Album: Yarrow, British Columbia
Friends 1 | Friends 2 | Friends 3 | Friends 4 | Friends 5Holidays 1 | Holidays 2 | Holidays 3 | Holidays 4
Family 1 | Family 2 | Family 3 | Family 4 | Family 5 | Family 6 | Family 7 | Family 8 | Family 9
Yarrow Days | Yarrow Scenes | Yarrow Pioneers: Vedder River Flats & Majuba Hill | Vancouver Views | Victoria Times
Yarrow Elementary Junior High | Yarrow Junior High 1953-57 | Junior High Student Council | Yarrow Friends
1994 School Reunion 1 | 1994 School Reunion 2 | 1994 School Reunion 3 | 1994 School Reunion 4
Vedder River | Vedder Mountain
UBC Reunion | Critical Paths | Mug Shots
Yarrow, B.C. Scenes and Times
Yarrow, British Columbia
| Yarrow, B.C. View from Vedder Mountain |
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| Yarrow Heritage Park |
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| Old Yale Road Wagon Trail aka Lovers' Lane |
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| Lovers' Lane Creek |
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Yarrow's Famous Softball Teams
| Provincial Intermediate Softball Champions - 1948 Knox Field, Wilson Road South |
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BR: George Derksen, Bernie Dyck, Henry "Tiny" Harder, Pete "Happy" Wall, Ernie "Nestor" Reimer, Jake "Brownie" Brown, Alex Fast FR: Irwin "Wiener" Froese, Len "Leggy" Froese, John "Mex" Giesbrecht, George "Fuzzy" Enns, John "Vagy" Martens Mary Froese & Cactus in the Announcer's Booth; Photograph: Hank "The Barber" Giesbrecht |
| Provincial Intermediate Softball Champions - 1951 |
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BR: Eddy Froese, John Dahl, Pete "6" Ratzlaff, Jake Wiebe, Hank Ratzlaff, Pete "7" Ratzlaff, Ernie Bergmann, Spike Klassen FR: Rusty Bergmann, Hank "Crow" Martens, Irwin "Sally" Harder, Elmer "Slim" Neufeldt, Fred Adrian, Allan Wilkie Photograph: Hank "The Barber" Giesbrecht |
| Yarrow Days' Parade, June 4, 2005 - Ethel Knox and Edith Knox |
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| Yarrow Days' Parade, June 4, 2005 - Gotthard Rehsler's Cool Car |
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| Yarrow Station - Wilson Road South - 1993 |
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| Ann Nightingale, Dave Nightingale, Pat Gillis, Shirley Giesbrecht, Robert Giesbrecht; Photo by Elmer Wiens |
| Yarrow Station - Majuba Hill Park - 1993 |
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| Pat Gillis, Ann Nightingale, Shirley Giesbrecht, Robert Giesbrecht, Dave Nightingale; Photo by Elmer Wiens |
| Freight Train at Wilson Road, Yarrow - December 28, 2004 |
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| Yarrow Days 1994, Yarrow Park |
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| John Unger, Hilda Baerg, Otto Baerg, Elmer Wiens |
| Yarrow Flowers and Yarrow Girls |
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| Ann Nightingale, Shirley Giesbrecht, Pat Gillis |
| Yarrow's Backyard Farms, Yarrow, B.C. |
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| Yarrow Mennonite Brethren Church, Yarrow Central Road |
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| Sunday School Class - 1951-54. Teachers: D. Klassen and H. Enns |
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| Victor Kopp, Abie Klassen, David Nickel, Ernest Neufeld, Mr. Henry Enns Mr. David Klassen, David Dyck, Edwin Epp, Allan Martens, Rudy Baerg, Danny Loewen Walter Teichgrab, Gordon Paetkau, Elmer Wiens, Robert Giesbrecht David Klassen, Willy Langemann, Don Fehr, Victor Janzen, Edwin Lenzmann |
| Yarrow United Mennonite Church, Eckert Road |
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| Yarrow Alliance Church, Yarrow Central Road |
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| Yarrow Canadian Reformed Church, Yarrow Central Road |
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| Yarrow Cemetery, Hare Road, Yarrow, British Columbia |
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| Mennonite Historical Society, Memorial Cemetery Tour Yarrow Cemetery, Hare Road, Yarrow, British Columbia (May 14, 2005) Sarah Martens Addressing the Society |
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| Yarrow School, Wilson Road North |
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| Yarrow School Teachers, 1953-54 |
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Harry MacTaggart, Walter Ferguson, Arthur Kurz Dorothy Barrett, Lillian Beales, Erma Wiebe Elizabeth Lavigne, Frieda Nightingale, Eleanor Wicoll, Agnes Allert |
| Yarrow School - Grade Eight Class (1953-54) |
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| Yarrow School - Grade Six Class (1955-56) |
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| Yarrow Days 1994, Yarrow Park |
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| Hank Martens, Otto Baerg, Bob Epp |
Such A Serene Yarrow Sunrise
| Vedder River Duckpond, Vedder River, Yarrow, B.C. |
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| Downtown Yarrow - D.& D. (Derksen and Dyck) Hardware |
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| Downtown Yarrow - Yarrow Market (Funk's General Store) |
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| Downtown Yarrow - Columbia Press (Neufeld's Print Shop) |
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| Downtown Yarrow - Hank Giesbrecht's Barber Shop |
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| Hank Giesbrecht and Elmer Wiens |
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Yarrow riddle: |
| Hangin' with Hank |
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Elmer Wiens, John Thiessen, Otto Baerg, Mel Martens, Robert Giesbrecht, Hank Giesbrecht, Stan Harder, |
| Downtown Yarrow - Cafe (Betty Menges' Cafe) |
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| Yarrow Building Supplies Ltd |
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| Yarrow Old Timers |
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| John Penner and Edwin Lenzmann |
| Die Drei Yarrow Bengel |
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| Walter Teichgrab, Gerry Klaassen, Elmer Wiens |
"Yarrow Poets' Society"
| Launch of a West Coast edition of Rhubarb A Magazine of New Mennonite Writing Café Montmarte, Vancouver, November 5, 2005 | ||
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| Larry Nightingale | Leonard Neufeldt | Robert Martens |
| Yarrow Book Launch of Windows to a Village (October 10, 2007) |
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| Susan DeLong, Susie Derksen, Jennifer Hamm |
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Yarrow was founded mostly by Dutch-Prussian-Russian-Mennonites on land reclaimed in part from Sumas Lake, after the provincial government built dykes to channel the Vedder River through the Vedder Canal to the Fraser River. Completed in 1924, this dyking project opened 12,000 acres of land for agriculture just west of Yarrow. By 1928, a new Mennonite Colony was established. The village of Yarrow nestles between Vedder Mountain to the south and the Vedder River to the north.
For a recent book about Yarrow see:
Until recently, Yarrow was a typical Mennonite community. Today, many people who grew up in such communities, nurtured within the "Mennonite Gemeinshaft," question their Mennonite identity. Following the 1986 bicentennial of Mennonites in Canada, a group of Mennonite academics presented papers on Mennonite Identity on May 28-31, 1986, at Conrad Grebel College. Their papers and discussions are collected in the book:
Armin Wiebe captures the feelings and comedy of life in a Mennonite community in his books:
Plautdietsch is a language spoken by ethnically Dutch (Frisian), Russian Mennonites, who arrived in North and South America by way of Prussia and what is now the Ukraine. Kjenn Jie Noch Plautdietsch? Herman Rempel has published an online Mennonite Low German Dictionary. A star is born! In A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews tells the aching, "coming of age" story of Naomi Nickel, a Mennonite girl ensnared in the dynamics of a dysfunctional Mennonite family trapped in a Manitoba town controlled by religious fundamentalists.
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Do you have any old photographs of Yarrow: work, school, people, activities, sporting events, or whatever?
If you send a copy to the address below, I will put them on this web page.
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Elmer Wiens 204-5555 Balsam Street Vancouver, B.C. V6M 4B5 |
Go to the homepage of Pat and Elmer.
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