[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Looking for clues

[kitchur at mts.net]

try the website 
http://ourroots.ca/ it has a lot of family-town history books for Saskatchewan and after a quick lookthere is a lot of books with the Greger family out there.
Darrel

> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:41:41 -0700
> From: wjmilner at shaw.ca
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Looking for clues
> 
> Hello listers
> Three brothers emigrated to Canada from Volhynia.
> 
> ,
> Surname: *Greger*
> Given Name: *  Ferdinand*
> Age:                        28
> Sex:    M    Nationality:    Po
> Date of Arrival: *  1925/05/29* (/YYYY/MM/DD/)
> Port of Arrival:        Quebec        Ship:    MINNEDOSA, Canadian Pacific
> Reference:
> RG76 - IMMIGRATION, series C-1-a
> Volume:    1925 volume 4
> Page Number:    125        Microfilm reel:        T-14715
> 
> Surname: *  Greger*
> Given Name:*Ludwik*
> Age:25
> Sex:M
> Nationality:Pol
> Date of Arrival:*1926/10/15* (/YYYY/MM/DD/)
> Port of Arrival:*Quebec*
> Ship:*MINNEDOSA*, Canadian Pacific
> Reference:RG76 - IMMIGRATION, series C-1-a
> Volume:1926 volume 2    Page Number:133
> Microfilm reel:T-14728
> 
> Name: 	*Fridrich Gregor*
> Gender: 	Male
> Age: 	20
> Estimated Birth Year: 	abt 1906
> Birth Country: 	Poland
> Date of Arrival: 	*15 Oct 1926*
> Vessel: 	*Minnedosa*
> Search Ship Database: 	View the 'Minnedosa' in the 'Passenger Ships and 
> Images' database 
> <http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?&f2=Minnedosa&db=passengerships>
> Port of Arrival: 	Montreal, Quebec
> Port of Departure: 	Southampton, England
> Roll: 	T-14728
> 
> 
> 
> Arthur Domes wrote: "Ferdinand Greger and his younger brother Lew 
> (Ludwig) came to work on my Dad's farm at Verwood.    Ferdinand had been 
> shot through the throat in the war and as a result he could only talk in 
> a loud whisper. It wasn't long that he acquired the nick name in the 
> district as "Whispering Ferdie."  After leaving my dad's farm he 
> acquired a wife and some land north of Assiniboia, Sk. and became a 
> fairly successful farmer. I know he had children. Lew Greger left the 
> community not to be heard of again."
> 
>  From the 1925 passenger list Ferdinand's nearest relative in Poland was:
> *Brother:* *    Ludwik Greger,     Kol Tuczyn,     District Rovne,     
> Wolhyn,     Poland.*
> 
> The images for the 1926 passenger list are too faint to be legible .
> 
> Does anybody out there know where they may have lived in Canada.  All 
> clues Welcome.
> 
> Yours truly,
> 
> Jack Milner
> 
> 
> 
> 
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