Jan Cornelis PALFENIER

                   Cemetery records 1958-09-013963 Micro #B13239(GSU#2033180)
CAME TO GRACEN SASK THEN KIPLING SUPPOSE TO BE 21 OCT 1905 WITH TWO CHILDREN
1 ST STORE IN WEEKES,SASKATCHEWAN STARTED IN 1934 BUILD BY ART AND BILL FLEMING AND JACK FLEMING.  JACK LOUISIN,FRED FORD.  SOLD TO GARTH JOHNSON OF SOMME AND MANAGED BY JIM STIGEN.  LATER SOLD TO MIKE SIERY.
BRONCHIT CO REGINA SASK AND BC (EXTRACT)
SAGA OF A PRAIRIE
A HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY LANSDOWNE,GOLDEN RIDGE AND BENDER DISTRICTS.
PUBLISHED BY THE INCHKEITH WOMENS INSTITUTE THE PRINTERS, SOUTHEAST PRESS LTD, KIPLING SASK.EXTRACT PAGE 115 HISTORY OF THE J.C. PALFENIER FAMILY
STOREKEEPER (BY MRS MARTIN (TINTY)GUNDERSON, DAUGHTER) MRS GUNDERSON'S PARENTS WERE BOTH BORN IN HOLLAND. FATHER JAN PALFENIER BORN NOV 18,1879,DIED DEC 13,1958 (BURIED BC). MOTHER NIESJE OORD, BORN JUL 21 1882 DIED JAN 6, 1961.  MR ANDMRS PALFENIER LIVED AWHILE IN GERMANY BEFORE COMING TO
CANADA IN 1906?  THEY HOMESTEADED NEAR RAYMORE,SASK.  IN THE SPRING OF 1920,
THEY, WITH THEIR FAMILY OF SEVEN, MOVED TO BENDER,SASK, AND RENTED A GENERAL
STORE FROM WILLIAM H. TOPPINGS. THEIR STAY WAS RATHER SHORT THERE, ABOUT THREE YEARS. THERE BEING NO SCHOOLS IN BENDER AT THAT TIME,THEY MADE ANOTHER MOVE TO KIPLING, WHERE THEIR CHILDREN COULD BE ABLE TO ATTEND CLASSES.
WHILE LIVING IN BENDER MR PALFENIER WAS QUITE ACTIVE IN THE CHURCH AND SUNDAY
SCHOOL. (LUTHERN AND BAPTIST). HE OPERATED A GENERAL STORE IN KIPLING FOR A
NUMBER OF YEARS, THEN MOVED TO REGINA AND LATER BRITISH COLUMBIA.
TINTY WAS BORN IN GERMANY.  SHE MARRIED MARTIN GUNDERSON, A FARMER NORTHWEST OF KIPLING, WHERE THEY ARE STILL ENGAGED IN FARMING OPERATIONS.  THEY CELEBRATED THEIR 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY INMARCH 1974. THEY HAVE TWO SONS, BOTH MARRIED. MELVIN IN REGINA AND ARTHUR IN MOOSEJAW. NONRESIDENT ALIEN'S BORDER CROSSING IDENTIFICATION CARD UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NO 219333 SHOWS PICTURE OF JOHN AND WIFE NEISJE.THE PALFENIER THAT IMMIGRATED TO CANADA FROM HOLLAND
DOMINION LAND GRANTS
PART NE SECTION 32 TOWNSHIP 28 RANGE 18 MERIDIAN W2
LIBER #441
FOLIO #339
FILE REEL #C6292
JOHN CORNELIUS PALFENIER