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ec Page 24 — Halton Hills This Week, Saturday, March 27,1993 ACTON BOWL Main Street North, Acton 53-0470 ~ MEN'S INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL ~ Road Runners Crusher's B.T.E. Acton Lanes TEAM STANDINGS Dustbusters ~ TRIANO MIXED ~ HIGH ROLLERS Chase Pizllizzari Michael Kellas ~ SMURFETS ~ Whitney Carroll Siera Pizllizzari Ashley Uiterwyk The Wolf family - an amazing saga By John Sommer In the winter of 1991-92 I occa- sionally visited an old lady, Mrs. Anna Bingham, at the Bennett Centre. Over the course of these visits she told me an amazing ‘anadian tale from the early years of our century. The story she told me was the story of her family and I thought it a story worth sharing. I wrote it down for the Herald, but, as you all know, the Herald was closed sud- denly a year ago and the story was not printed. Last November, Mrs. Anna Bingham died at the Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital, mourned by five living children, 12 grandchildren and seven great- grandchildren. In her memory, here is her and her family’s story. Ideas & the Arts to the new world in order to get away from the class distinctions of Europe. In 1906, the Wolfs arrived in Canada and settled in Hamilton. In the same year their daughter Anna (Mrs. Bingham) was born, followed by another son, Leopold, in 1907. Waldemar Wolf did well as a butcher and sausage maker in Hamilton, and within a few years he owned properties and was on his. way to substantial wealth. But the inner restlessness that had brought him from Germany to Denmark and eventually to Canada, made him move his family once more, this time to Matheson near Timmins. In the years before the two years no school existed in the area. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf taught their children at home. When a school finally opened in 1915 it was three miles distance from their farm, and remember, three miles walking through rough bush coun- try, not on a comfortable road. The first. road to the tiny town of Matheson was a “blazeline”, a trail just wide enough for a horse and a sloop. A “sloop” was the forked part of a tree, a very primitive sleigh. To this treefork a meatbox was fastened. A meatbox was about six feet long, three feet wide, and two feet high. In these boxes, meat was trans- ported from southern Ontario to the far-off districts of the north, packed in ice, as long as the new farmers did not produce enough meat for ~ MEN ~ ~ LADIES ~ Mrs. Bingham’s father, first World War gold: was discov- themselves. All these boxes need- Singles Singles Waldemar Wolf, was born in ¢fd near Timmins and fora while eq, once they had been emptied, Raymond Peterson 120 _ Holly Petkoff 117 | Germany in 1871. His parents Timmins was hot news and the was a seat or seats across, and N. Carroll 117 Amy-Lynn Inscoe 113 | owned and operated a mill and a Country surrounding the settlement mounted to the fork of a tree, and a N. Carroll . Sarah Kobsa 109 | bakery in Augustusburg, Germany. paresis tions frontier attracting horse hitched to the whole contrap- joubles Doubles ‘When Waldemar grew up he want- nae tion, they became practical and. N. Carroll 219 Holly Petkoff 209 | ed to become a'soldier, but for Mrs. Bingham remembered sturdy tools for getting around in Raymond Peterson 214 | Amy-Lynninscoe 203 | some reason, his daughter had for- Posters that proclaimed “Go North, very rough and often swampy Adam Burgess 171 Sarah Kobsa 200 |. gotten, the German army did not Young Man, Go North, to the Land country, Singles Singles take him. of Go ot /pportunities! ie The Wolfs had brought horses This made her father so angry nes who were brave enough to g0 and cows and chickens with them Hae a. 130 Pease re that he left Germany for Denmark, €Ceived 160 acres bushland of from Hamilton, but for fresh meat, Ryan Walker 108 Candice Anderson 93 | We? he acquired Danish citizen: Yee Om choice aeres Rae ae acres hip and bec: Dutcher. ‘aldemar Wolf got his acre hunting f .d deer. Brock eae pone < Still ey unig ae warried stretch of bush six miles distance “in the Cee black flies made Adon Sips aay z ee woecabe 1a Christina Heitman, whose parents from Paes and 40 miles dis- jife hell. You covered your face ts owned a hotel. The grandfather of | tance from Timmins. and hands with turpentine as a pro- Scott Williams 175___ Candice Anderson 168 | Christina was a Danish sea captain, _ Why so far away from any exist- tection against them. During the Singles Singles In 1899 their oldest son Johannes _ ing settlement? Mr. Wolf wanted along winters, Waldemar. Wolf and ym David Albano 196 Meagan McGrath 130. | was born, and in 1902 a second creek on his farm. In order to find _ his boys cut timber on their proper- a Trevor Walker 196 Sarah Kruk 103 son, Oswald, came:into this world. one, he walked farther and farther ty for the pulp mills, and whenever ea Mark Cripps 170 Laura Kobsa 96 | In those days, Europe was made up into the bush until he found what they could spare some time from Z Trip! Triples of countries that had developed he was looking for. The whole fam- —_farmwork, they worked for the gov- fm Trevor Walker 507 Meagan McGrath 354 rigidly stratified societies. ily moved to this place and started ernment, building roads. = David Albano 451 Laura Kobsa 285 Everybody was locked into the to clear the bush for fields. More next week about the further Mark Cripps 443 Louise Worrell 271 class he or she was born into, and The first house and barn, and _ adventures of the Wolf family. Singles Singles impatient young men like even the outhouse, were made of John Sommer has been the direc- Adam Ahearn 178 Angie ‘en 234 Waldemar Wolf found this to be an logs from the trees on the property tor of Gallery House Sol, on Brandon McGrath 177 Sheri Forbes 178 encumbranice. and the family lived in these log Charles St. in Georgetown since Joey Price ral 1 cats Pai rial 173 He decided to remove his family — structures for 12 the first 1962. Triples Triples Brandon McGrath 450 Angie Aheam 526 Adam Ahearn 446 Sheri Forbes 497 Brian Boyhd 349 Sarah Parkins 494 Singles 262 Grace Robertson 197 195 Mabel Barkman 196 | | (qa 1 =O] 34@1 = MO) > @SetG aa AV] Sa 188 Pat Giguere 195 179 Jessie Roden 195 Triples 597 Grace Robertson 533 506 Jessie Roden 502 485 Pat Giguere 494 Wes Fountain 479 _ Mary Loutett 493 . 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