Abraham (Al), right, with father Abram Reimer logging at 6535 Brown Road (240 Street).

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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2014.025.031

Title

Abraham (Al), right, with father Abram Reimer logging at 6535 Brown Road (240 Street).

Date

[ca. 194-?].

Description

1 b&w photograph; Abraham (Al) right, and his father Abram Reimer logging on Abram's property at 6535 Brown Road (240th Street); they are in a forest; Abram is sitting on a sawed tree holding a cross cut saw vertically, with one handle resting on the ground and the other in the air; Abraham is standing behind him with one foot resting on the tree Abram is sitting on; he is holding an axe; the stump of the tree Abram is sitting on is blocking a portion of Abraham; both men are wearing hats and smiling towards the camera; there is a large pile of branches and brush behind them.

People/Subject

Reimer, Abraham (Al)

Abraham Reimer was born in Michailovka, South Russia on December 31, 1913 to Russian Mennonite parents Abram and Aganetha Petrovna Reimer (nee Janzen). He was the third oldest of 10 children. His family moved to Mexico in 1924, and then moved to Saskatchewan. Abraham (known as Abe, or Al) married Violet Mabel Hunter. They lived for a time in Ontario and Winnipeg before coming to Langley after the war, in 1946. Their two oldest sons, Don and Norm, were born in the east. When the family of four came to Langley, they lived in a rented house at 6595 238 Street, in what is now Williams Park. This house was located almost immediately west of the Reimer grandparents property 6535 240 St. (Brown Road). Al worked at the McDonald Cedar Mill in Fort Langley and rode a bike there from this house. Around 1947 they purchased a 10-acre property at 20224 Shannon Road (86th Avenue, across from what is now the Carvolth Transit parking lot) through the Veterans’ Land Act. Son Robert (Bob) was born in this house in February 1948 during a big snow storm. Son Lenard was born in Langley in 1950. Violet’s parents, William and Anna Maria Hunter lived next door, to the east at 20264 Shannon Road. Al and Violet Reimer had a chicken house, until a bird flu killed all the chickens, and then they got pigs. Al cleared the property where the Smith Trailer Park is in Walnut Grove (approx. 198 Street). They lived at this property until about 1960, when the family moved to the interior. Al worked in sawmills and logging for his whole career. He passed away in Kelowna in 1997.

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