The Landis Record Vol. 1
Friesen Printers, 1980

Index to Volume 1

*As It Was* by Mrs. Melchior Schermann - a first hand account of homesteading in 1905 near 
Leipzig (when she was a new bride of 16) written in 1942 (a year before she died). Six  pages.

Landis - several articles about the history of the village and some of its businesses.

Traynor - village northeast of Landis

Wolfe - village northwest of Landis

Churches
- Carmelheim & *Lady of Fatima* Landis Catholic churches
- protestant churches of Landis and area

Roll of Honour - list of those serving in Boer War, WWI, WWII

Schools: Brooks; Heart Lake; Landis; Lett (Swift Current Trail); Medina; Naseby; Needwood; 
(Zimmer); Palo; Porter; Standard; Traynor; Wolfe

Farming: pages of old photos

Rural Municipalities: Rosemount; Reford; Bushville, Grandview

Family histories
- wife’s surname in [ ] if known - many of these were not written for genealogists - and often 
omit the maiden surname of the wife and sometimes even her first name, identifying her in the 
story and photos as *Mrs. [husbands name]*.
- location of origin of husband if known

Adams, George
Affleck, James Rae & Laura [Thompson] - Manitoba
Affleck, William & family - Clayton Ontario
Archdekin, Thomas & Eileen [Carberry] - Brampton, Ontario
Armstrong, Thomas & Frances [Calvey] - N. Ireland
Arnold, William & Olive [Hurman?] - Bruce county, Ontario
Atkinson, Roy
Armitage, Fred & Florence - Yorkshire
Allan, John M. & family - Scotland
Baker, J. Ed & Alameda
Barr, William & Helen - N. Ireland
Balmer, W. Lorne & family
Barker, William & family - England
Barrie, James T. & family
Bayet, Alphonse & Amelia [Tinant] - Belgium
Bent, ?Ernest & Freela [Buxton] - Nova Scotia
Bingham, Frank & Emma [Larson] - England
Bingham, Syd & family
Bleasdale, Calvert & family; 2nd wife: Margaret [Dolphin]
Bock, Allan Maine & Frances [Hutchinson] - Ontario - editor of Landis Record newspaper
*Bomersbach, Mathias John & Katie Elizabeth [Haas] - Austria
Boobyer, Wiliam & Mary [Nesdoly] - England
Braithwaite, James & Helen [Cunningham]- England
Brownlee, Frederick Gordon & Grace [Gamble] & family - second marriage for Grace
        Kelleway, Benjamin John & Grace [Gamble] & family
Bourke, Patrick
Buglass, John & Elizabeth - England
*Burgart, John & Agnes [Sander] - Tramping Lake, SK - German
Burns, Charles Henry & Veronica (Fronie) [Leinenweber] - Iowa
Butler, Robert K. & Emily [McMillan] - N.S.
Buxton, A.J. (Jack) & Rose Emily [Geary] - Minnesota
Campbell, Malcom L. & Margery [Rudd] - Ontario
Carberry, Harvey & Ann [Francis] - Ontario
Cassidy, Emory & Ludivine [Perusse] - N.S.
Causey, Charles & Rosella
*Cey, Bruno & Susan [Kaufmann] - Poland
Cherwoniak, Nickalase & Mary - Poland
Clay, Henry & Margaret [Scott] - Washington State
Clay, Robert L. & Mary [Dick]
Clay, Rush & Emily [Horseman] - Manitoba
Collinson, Tom & Cassie [Cushing] - Manitoba
Cox, William & Pearl
Crosby, Jess F. & Alice [Snell] - Minnesota
Cross, Aaron J. & Labona Alameda - N. Dakota (unsure if Alameda is middle or surname)
Cunningham, David & Agnes [Bain] - Scotland
Cunningham, William John & family
Danskin, Edward & family - Detroit, MI
Denney, Garnett & family- Manitoba
Derouche, Peter & Violet - Ontario
Dick, Karl (Charlie) & Elizabeth [Bomersback] - Austria
Dick, Christian - Austria
Dick, John M. & Mary [Keller]
Dick, Martin & Mary [Zosick] - Austria
Dick, Martin John & Audrey [Jamison]
Dick, Rudy & Anna - Poland
Dickson, John - Manitoba
Doubleday, Horace - England
Draper, George - Ontario
Dyce, John L. & Abbie [Buxton] - Manitoba
Dymond, John & Mary - Devonshire, England
Eaton, Frank & Alice - Ontario
Eden, Oxcar & Margaret [Haas] - Sweden
Edwards, Charles & 1. Magdalene Sims [Crayk] 2. Mrs. Stanley Greenwood- Portsmouth, England
Eklund, August & Alice [Mulholland] and Otto (bachelor brother)
Engel, Joseph & Philomena [Bleile] - Alsace-Lorraine - operated Leipzig Hotel
        his sister Josephine is married. to John Schmidt of Leipzig
Fanshaw, Harold & wife
Foley, Harold & Florence [Johnson]
Forsythe, Walter
*Fox, John & Mary [Merkowsky] - Fox: Holland via Minnesota
*Frey, Jacob & Rose [Niederhouser] - Switzerland via Iowa
        - grandsons md Loerzel sisters of Handel
Fuchs, Louis & Elizabeth
Galbraith, John Bennett (Jack) & *Lottie* [Jardine] - Milton, Ontario
Gallagher, Patrick Hugh & Ada Agnes [Lightburn] - England
Gamble, John Harvey & Nettie [Pearl] - Oklahoma
Gamble, Paul Byron
*Garrett, Art & Annie [Hemmerling]
        - granddaughters married to Don Suchan and Cliff Kappel of Leipzig
Garrett, Charlie
Garrett, William & Agnes [Gilson] - England
Gartner, Mike & 1. Elizabeth [Harjung] 2. Barbara [Ischkum] 3. Mary [Duczyminski]
        - Yugoslavia
Geary, George Arthur & Nancy - Herman Nebraska
Germscheid, Jack & Nell [Shea] - USA - Germscheid: German Catholic, Shea: Irish Catholic
Glackin, Oren & Ruby [Thrush]
Gossert, George & Mary [Lanigan] - Wisconsin (George) and Iowa (Mary)
Gillespie, Ernest & Bertha
Gillespie, William & Effie [Steward]
Glaister, John & Aletha Jane [Gillespie] - England via Ontario
Graham, Archibald and Margaret - Scotland via New Brunswick
Graham, Peter Lawson & Minnie Anne [Kelly] - Ontario
Graves, Howard E. & Alberta - N.S.
Gray, David & Isabella [Macdonald] - Orkney Islands
Greenwood, Edward & family - Ontario
Grenkie, Charles & Annie [Clubbe] - Rousseau, Ontario
Grenke, Ernest & Bertha [Greer]
Grenke, Julius & Rebecca
Hale, Harry - England
Haas, Adam & Mariana [Hemmerling] - Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Haas, Christian M. & Margaret [Dick] - Poland
Haas, Jacob & Emilia [Dick] - Austria near Germany border
Haas, Mathias & Maria [Marla Hemmerling] - Austria
Haas, Rudolph & Rosalia Margaret [Dick]
Hadley, Roscoe John & florence Irene [Lange] - N.S.
*Hakes, George & Angeline Zimmer - Oklahoma
Hall, Arthur & Etta [Pulver]- Scotland
Hall, George A. - Scotland
Hall, Warren & Ellen [McConell] - Ontario
Harris ArnoldM. & Mabel - Huron County, Ontario
Hart, Joe & Sara [Hay] - N.S.
Hart, Warren & Elsie
Hawkins, Albert & Mary [Longworth]
Hemmerling, Karl & Mary [Dick] - Austria
Henderson, Walter & Jeanne  - Scotland via Winnipeg
Henne, August & Ella - Hanover, Germany
Hindley, George & May - Rockwood Ontario
Hindley, Ernest & Mary
Hingston, Freke & Kathleen [Ross] - Cty Cork, Ireland
Hingston, James Edward 1. Agnes [] 2.
Hingston, Joseph & Alice [ ]
Hingston, John & Alice [Bryan] - Cty. Cork Ireland
        - grandsons Bryan and Barry married Loerzel sisters from Handel
Hingston, Norah
Hintz, Henry Catherine [Knobel] - Iowa
Hogg, Peter Livingston & Deborah [Glaister] - Shakespeare, Ontario
Holmes, Charles
*Huber, Mike & Rosalia [Heinrich] - Austria
Hunter, Catherine - Glasgow Scotland
Jackson, Mike - Lucan Ontario
Jardine, John
Jarmin, Joseph & Frances [Oelkuch]
Jellsett, Cornelius S.
Johns, Fred & Carrie [Lehnert] - Carrie from Alsace-Lorraine
Johnson, Anders John & Amanda [Anderson] - Sweden via Minnesota
Johnson, Art & Lucille [Parker] - Illinois
Johnson, David & Olive [Plum] - born Ohio
Johnson, Sigfred & Sigrid [Malmstead] - Sweden
Johnson, Iver & Ada [Wood nee Munton] - Illinois
Johnson, Samuel - Sweden
Jones, John & Wilhelmina [Gray] - England
Jones, Walter & Mary (Polly) [?] - England
Jordan, William & Eleanor [Niccum] Indiana
*Kaufman, John & Elizabeth [Dirksing] - Wisconsin
*Keller, Adam & Elizabeth [Haas] - Galicia, Austria
*Keller, Joseph & Elizabeth - Austria
Kerfoot, George & Martha - Lancashire, England
Kerfoot, Moses & Rosa [Fairhurst] - Lancashire, England
Kerr, Walter & Margaret [Dye] - Scotland
Kingston, John & Ruth [Danskin]- Ireland
*Kletzel, Bernard & Katherine - N. Dakota
*Knobel, Adam & Mary [Zimmer] - Switzerland via USA
*Kraus, Vincent & Pauline [Meister] - Germany via Minnesota (V);  Switzerland (Pauline)
Kuchenbrand, Peter & Annie [Usselman]
Koller, Frank & Julia - Austria
Lange, Henry & Zelma [Buxton] - Wisconsin
Lanigan, David & Margaret - Iowa
Latimer, William & Margaret Bertha [McRorie] - Sault St. Marie, Ontario
Latimer, Charles W. - Manitoba
Leech, Robert W.
*Lehnert, George & Paul (bachelor brothers) - Alsace-Lorraine
*Lehnert, Emil & Marie [Bretch] - Alsace-Lorraine
*Leidl, Martin & family
Leinenweber, Peter & Catherine [Schmal] - Trier, Rhineland, Germany
Lightburns, William & MaryAnn - England
Lommer, John & Catherine [Reiter] - France & Luxemburg
Long, Ralph & 1. Mabel 2. Bessie - Kansas
MacLeod, John & family
Maltby, Jim & family - England
Marsh, William & Lilian - England
Martin, James & Mary [Chalmers] - Scotland
Martin, Emile & family - Swan Lake, Manitoba
McConnell, Jack & Annie
McDonald, Daniel Joseph & Kate [Christmas] - N.S.
McLeod, John Burgess & Louise
McHargue, Stephen Andrew & Molly Rae - Iowa & Missouri
McKay, John (Jack) & 1. ?  2. Elizabeth [Watt]
McKenzie, Peter& family - Vancouver, BC
McMaster, John - Scotland - bachelor
McMaster, Robert & family
McMillan, Donald Duncan Evelyn [Woodbury]- Glengarry county, Ontario
McNeil, Archie & family - Ontario
McNeill, Cliff & Frances [Tobin]
Meikle, Andrew - Scotland
Meikle, John & family - Scotland
*Mettlewsky, Alexander - Odessa, Russia
*?Miller, Bruno & Anna
Miller, W. Jack & family - Toronto
Miller, William Hugo & Ann (Alvine) [Walliser]- Germany via USA
Montgomery, Chris, Bill, Ellen - N. Ireland
Moore, Thomas - England
Morrison, W.T.
Moses, Sigmund - Chicago
Mossauer, A. C. (Tony) & Deborah [Chisolm] - S. Dakota
Muir, William & Emma - Missouri
Munton, Herbert & Eliza [Morley] - Lincolnshire, England
Munton, Ronald H. & Mary
Nunn, J.J. (Hosh) & family
Newman, Alfred and William - Manitoba
Ochs, Anton & Elizabeth [Thomas] - Odessa Russia via Portland Oregon
Palmer, James - Ontario
Palmer, John Russell - Creek Bank, Ontario
Parker, Thomas & Mildred Jane [Kays] - Indiana
Pek, Isador & Anna - Hungary
Phoenix, Dr. N.L. & - Greenbank, Ontario
        Chappell, Mervin & Norine [Phoenix]
        Hainstock, Percy & Geraldine [Fletcher]
Porter, Alexander & Catherine [Wilson] - Ottawa
Pudlo, Frank & family
Rea, Edwin M. & Janet [Rea] and John (Jack) Graham & [Rea]
*Reiniger, Frank & Agnes [Jarmine] - Minnesota
Roa, Oswald (Ole) & Elizabeth [Muirhead] - N. Dakota
Rogers, George H. & family - London England
*Rohs, Joseph Peter & Mary [Kaufmann] - Rimburg, Holland
        children married to Schommer, Schuller.,Bojarski, Suter, Huber, Schwebius, Huber\
Ross, Hugh & wife - Indian Head - Mrs. Ross lived to 106 in Saskatoon nursing home
Ruff, Mabel [Johnson] -
Russell, George & wife
Sanders, Rev. Leslie H. (United Church)
Sandmeyer, Frank & Matilda [Ewy] - Germany via Minnesota
Schafhauser, John & Thecia (Tillie) [Koller] - Wisconsin
Scharf, Wesley & Florence
Scheik, Abe & family
Schmidt, Carl & 1. Lillian 2. Zelda [ Larson] - USA
Shepherd, Thomas Joel (Harry) & Maude [Foster] - Iowa
*Schommer, 1. Joe 2. Andrew & Annie [Thielges] - N. Dakota
*Schuller, Frank J. & Levina [Leinenweber] - N. Dakota
*Schwebius, August & Martha [Kempe] - Germany
        dtr md Schommer, son md Cey
*Schwebius, Stephan & Mary [Sittler]
Scott, James & Mary - England
Servage, Thomas & Eliza Jane [Irving] - Ontario
Shaw, David & Marion [Miller] - Scotland
Shaw, William W. and Donald Campbell - bachelor friends
Sinclair, William H. & Alice [Lewis]- Brampton
Sizer, Michael & Mary [Ewy] - Minnesota
Slimmon, Lorne & Gladys [Wilson] - Saskatoon
Sloan, Norman & Matilda [Donnelly] and Clarence & Beatrice [Miller]
Smith, Wiliam Duncan & Margaret - Scotland
Sprung, John & Martie
Struthers, Robert & Mary [Wilson] - Scotland
Stuart, Robert - Fletcherton, Ontario
Stuart, Theodore R. & family - Idaho
Straub, Rudy & [Etta Van Haitsma]
Suter, Hans - Switzerland
Swanton, Michael (Mickey) & Mary [Haas] - Cty Cork, Ireland
Tanton, William & Maude - Ontario
Taylor, George Joseph & Margaret [McCulloch] - Ireland
        Jamieson, Robert & Jean
Taylor, Richard (Dick) & family
Tinant, Jack & Jorgine [Posche] - Belgium and Norway
Thomas, Joseph & Barbara
Thomas, Michael Thomas & family - N. Dakota
Thompson, Percy J. & Catherine Hazel - Manitoba
Thrush, Arthur & family - England
Tobin, Ambrose & family - N. S.
Tyrrell, George & Sarah - England
Van Every, Albert Murray & Lucy [Newman] - Ontario
Vaessen, Leo & Mary [Leinenweber] - Holland
Veale, Henry Neville Maleat-Veale & mabel - S. Africa
Vizer, Frecerick & Emma [Haas]
Walker, Oswald & family
Walsh, Hanlon & brother Frank
Warren, Henry W.
Warren, Stephen Horace & Laura Lavina [Chase] - Long Point, Ontario
Wassman, Ben & family - Ukraine
Wassmer, Fritz & Lena - Iowa
Waugh, Thomas & Olive - Oakland, Ontario
Weatherly, Tom & family - Scotland
Weber, Peter Samuel & Jenny [Simpson]- New Dundee & Kitchener, Ontario
Wells, C.W.
Wells, James & Elizabeth [Hunter] - Virden, Manitoba
Wheaton, Arthur Garfield & Vern Miranda [McMahan] - N. Brunswick
Willett, William Arthur & Agnes [Walls] - Treherne, Manitoba & Scotland
White, Arthur & family - Boston, MA
Whiting, Frank J.
Whiting, J.J. & Annie - England
Whittaker, Joseph W. & family
Williams, Fred & family - England
Williams, Horace & Carrie [Gilmer] - England & Atwood, Ontario
Wilder, George
Willerton, Tom
Wilson, Frank - son of Lee
Wilson, Lee & Fanny - Buckley, Illinois
Wirachowsky, Herman & Monica -
Wirachowsky, Len & Marie
Woo, Sam
Wood, William H. - England
Woodcock family - Barrington, England
Woodworth, Noble & Gertrude - N.S.
Worthington, Nick & Ella - Iowa
Wright, Thomas & Anne [Whiting] & son Frank - Lincolnshire, England
Yustin, Joseph & family - Iowa
Zimmer, Frank, Frank Jr., Ben, Jack & Joe & families - Wisconsin via Minnesota
        Knobel, Adam & wife [Zimmer]
        Goulet, Joe & Clara [Zimmer]
Zimmerman, Dwight *Cotton*