Schmidts familietræ (www.sm1.dk)

Rejste først i 1920erne først til København, derfra til London sammen med en veninde og snart efter til Canada, hvor hun blev gift med en dansker.

Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 Canada Day 'Nation Building' View Image Name: Marie Schmidt Birth: abt 1898 - Denmark Departure: Liverpool, England Arrival: 10 May 1925 - Quebec

Peter and Marie had 5 children( Doris, Betty, Joan, Roy and Harold). The large house was much appreciated. In 1935. While Marie was in the Galt hospital in Lethbridge with complications of child birth with a the 6th child, both she and the chil d died. Her oldest boy Roy 3 years old had pneumonia and was in the hospital the same time his mother died. Peter had been working in the Shaughnessy coal mine as a locomotive engineer to help supplement his farming income.. He was so tired looking after 5 children, one with pneumonia and a sick wife in the Lethbridge Galt hospital that he ran the trai n off the end off the track. There was no damage to the locomotive. Tired and frustrated he tore up his steam ticket and swore he would never work off the farm again and he never did. Seventeen years later, in 1952, I started working in the Pictur e Butte Sugar factory and met a man named Even Evans. Mr. Even Evans who was the master mechanic in the factory told me that he had been master mechanic in the Shaughnessy coal mine in 1935 when my father ran the steam engine of the track. He sai d he told his boss that he fired my father for the mishap even though Peter had already quit. He said he did it because the mine was having many problems at the time and he wanted to show that he was doing something about it. Then he told me tha t if I was half the man my father was I would always have a job with him. I told my father Peter, what Mr. Evans said but Peter held no malis and said I would learn much working with Mr. Evans. Peter raised the five children more or less by himself. At times he had a house keeper but mostly the 3 girls did the house work. In the mid thirties he bought a threshing machine and a steel wheel International W30 tractor. With this outfit Pete r threshed for many of the neighbors. One year when it was a wet and cold fall he threshed for some neighbors on the day before Christmas, the day after Christmas and even on New Years day. More than one year he finished threshing in the spring . Although these were very hard times Peter was proud that at least his kids never went barefoot. When his girls Betty and Joan were 15 to 17 years old he took them dancing in the Treanon dance hall in Lethbridge. They said he would dance every da nce and never seem to get tired, but they themselves were tired right out. In the late 1930's Peter bought a "Hupmobile" car, the only one I ever saw. Parts were not easy to get and. In 1945 the car broke a connecting rod. Peter could not find the proper rod so he replaced it with one that was 4 inches short. The car ra n fine and he sold it to the Charlesworth boys from Bar Hill who drove it to Ontario with no problems. When the 40s came, the rains came, prices of crops went up and so things got a lot better. In 1942 the crops yielded so exceptionally good that he had to pile the grain in the field. He then loaded it in a grain tank and hauled it with horses 4 mi les to the elevator in Diamond City. In 1946 Peter started growing sugar beets and bought his first 3 ton truck. It was a 1935 Maple Leaf,(Chevrolet). In 1950 he bought a new Chevrolet car and then in 1951 he bought a new Ford 3 ton truck. That sa me year he started feeding cattle and started hauling sugar beet pulp from the sugar factory to feed the cows. He owned one of the first sugar beet harvesters in the district bought from Harry Watson of Picture Butte in 1951. Peter was a man wit h great honor and integrity. He would not accept any foul language from his children. One day when my father and I repaired a binder he hitched the horses on and tried it out I followed and he said how is it working Roy while looking strait dow n the lengh of the canvas I said it,s as crooked as a dogs hind leg. He immediately said don't talk like that around here, you can use better words than that, He was honest with all his friends and neighbors. In 1949 Peter took a trip back to Denmark to visit his family whom he had left 40 years earlier. There was a big celebration with his family. His father at 89 years old., (his mother had died the year before) a younger brother and 2 sisters and al l his nieces and nephews were there to meet him. In 1972 when my wife and I went to Denmark to look up my relatives the cousins talked about the great time they had when UNCLE Peter came to visit 22 years before. They told how Uncle Peter dance d and danced with all the ladies but the Danish men, including his younger brother Harold just sat and watched like old men and Peter was the oldest. In 1950 following Peters visit to Denmark he married Oda Adamsen, from Aauhus, Denmark. His nephew Anton (his brothers oldest boy) had introduced him. She was a wonderful lady and they had 6 very happy years together on the farm near Lethbridge . Peter,s niece, Dora and her husband Soren Schmidt followed Peter to Canada and worked on the farm for two years. They remained in Canada and raised their family. In late April of 1956 Peter died of prostate cancer a few days before his 65th birt hday. The " will" said Harold and I were to share and share alike, but until the beneficiaries were paid off we were to always have 5 cows and 3 sows.. We were to pay Oda, our step-mother $9000 first and then the 3 sisters $3000 each. All were to be pai d at the rate of 150 tons of sugar beets per year at whatever the price of sugar beets were sold for in that year until all were paid. In 1961 Jean and I borrowed the money from Farm Credit Corporation and paid out all the beneficiary's including Harold who settled for $10,000.00 and including the $4,000.00 still owing on the farm that Peter had bought in 1925. Jean and I and our family lived in the original farm house for 40 years then in 1997 we sold it to Randy Todd a neighbor and moved to a farm 36 miles east of Red Deer. See more under Peter's wife Marie and son Roy's history's.

biography of Marie Schmidt

Rejste først i 1920 erne først til København, derfra til London sammen med en veninde og snart efter til Canada, hvor hun blev gift med en dansker.

The above was entered by my cousin Kaj Schmidt in Denmark who is my mother Marie Schmidt's nephew. All though I can't read Danish I believe it says that Marie first left home in 1920 and went to Copenhagen, then to London, England and then to Cana da and there she married a Danish man (dansker) in Canada. She had lived in the town of Andrup, near Esbjerg, which is now quite a large city and the place where most of her relative live. Kij her nephew says she went first to Copenhagen so thi s must have been from Esbjerg. I have a Passport stamped August 10, 1923 at Esbjerg, Denmark This certificate says she was born on 6/11/1897 at Andrup, Denmark, and that she lived in Esbjerg, was Danish, and was 1.62 meters tall, she had dark blon de hair and gray eyes..

I am Marie's son Roy Jensen who was born to Marie in 1932 at Diamond City, Alberta. My Father came to Canada in 1910, one year after he entered the United States from Denmark. My father Peter Jensen was working as a C.P.R. engineer in Lethbridge , Alberta in 1925 when Marie came to Canada, landing in Lethbridge. They met and married shortly thereafter and lived in a home in Lethbridge. In 1928 when Peter was declared color blind by a new doctor and could no longer work as a C.P.R. enginee r, they bought a 1/2 section farm from the Canadian Pacific Railway, 10 miles out of Lethbridge and moved there where their post office was Diamond City.

This address was later moved to Shaughnessy which was about the same distance from our farm. Peter worked part time in Shaughnessy at the coal mine operating a steam locomotive, so it was easer to pick up the mail.

Marie was very well liked and respected by their neighbors and friends such as Art and Elsie McIlroy, Doris and Ches Jensen, Fred and Esie Johnston and the Thorsens from Lethbridge. Marie's house on the farm had 1500 square feet on the main floor. It had a full basement and 1/2 story upstairs. It must have seemed like a castle, of which Jean and I saw many in Denmark that were no longer lived in because they were to har d to keep warm. Marie & Peter had 5 children, Doris, Betty, Joan, Roy and Harold in that order. Marie died on June 12 1935 being pregnant for the sixth time. She was 38 years old at the time of her death. Peter said she died on the operating table under "ether " in the hospital. At this time I was 3 years old. and have no memory of her. My oldest sister Doris was 9 years old, Betty 7 years and Joan 5 years. I knew very little about my mother until 1983 when my cousin Kaj and his wife Ingrid came to Canada to visit. At my request Kaj did some research on my mothers and his fathers (Marie's brother) ancestral line. He became very involved in genealog y and has traced back to over 21,097 ancestral names, some in the 1300s which I now have in my Computer. I communicate by e-mail regularly and find out how him and his wife Ingrid are. They had two sons but one passed away in 1982 or 3. One son spends much time in Brazil with an band traveling around the country.

Kaj is now in 2002 head of the local archives in Billun, and 2 years ago he told me he had 90,000 + names in his personal computer. Many of those are names of his wife, Ingrids ancestors. Kaj told me that my mother left her home in Denmark and went to England to work as a maid. She left England and came to Canada. I was never told why she came to Lethbridge in particular. She had not known my father Peter since he lived on the oppo site side of Denmark and when he left Denmark at age 17 she was only 7 years old. I hope one day to find more about her.