 | A Dutch Homesteader On The Prairies The letters in this volume, found in the original Dutch in the archives of the Netherlands Emigration Service in Holland, form a unique chronicle of one European homesteader in Saskatchewan from 1910 to 1913. de Gelder Willem : Willem de Gelder was born in the 1880s in Doorn, the son of a well-to-do banker. He came to Canada in 1910 and by the 1920s he had become a successful homesteader owning a half-section of land. But in 1922 he rented out his land, went to the Netherlands to see his family, and returning to Canada he disposed of his homestead - and vanished. Ganzevoort Herman :Herman Ganzevoort (1942-2014) was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Calgary. |
