Archives Search


Search only: Library, Archives Advanced Search, Ancestors, Images, Search All

To submit a comment, contact webservices@lac-bac.gc.ca

Search Help

Description found in Archives

Title

Peter Draayer, a new Canadian from The Netherlands and a real handyman, spends all his spare time modernizing the home he has bought on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ontario, where sixteen Dutch families are already established on farms of their own. 

Arrangement structure

Show Arrangement Structure

Item (linked) part of

Immigration Program photographic records and posters [graphic material] (R1206-304-0-E)

Date(s)

ca. 1960's

Place

Wolfe Island, Ontario

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Scope and content

Peter works for a finance corporation in Kingston and Gary, his wife, is employed at Wolfe Island Inn; but every cent they can save goes into their little farm. Baby Ingrid, born in Canada, is already a Canadian citizen, and parents are impatiently awaiting the end of five years in Canada so they can catch up with her.

Conditions of access

Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Nil
Item no. (creator)
1434
Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Box
06272.2
90: Open
Other accession no.
1972-047 NPC

Terms of use

Credit: National Film Board / Library and Archives Canada
Restrictions on use: Nil
Copyright: Library and Archives Canada

Additional name(s)

Photographer: No. B.58233.
Photographer: National Film Board of Canada.

Additional information

Series title
Dutch

Signatures and inscriptions
Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Information Division. Photo: National Film Board. No. B.58233. Peter Draayer, a new Canadian from The Netherlands and a real handyman, spends all his spare time modernizing the home he has bought on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ontario, where sixteen Dutch families are already established on farms of their own. Peter works for a finance corporation in Kingston and Gary, his wife, is employed at Wolfe Island Inn; but every cent they can save goes into their little farm. Baby Ingrid, born in Canada, is already a Canadian citizen, and parents are impatiently awaiting the end of five years in Canada so they can catch up with her.

Source

Government

Other system control no.

DAPDCAP587601

MIKAN no.

3613741