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| Hilda Krantz's Mt Angel Normal School graduation picture, 1928. |
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Hilda's Diary of Her 1930 Train Trip to Canada
 Two years after graduating from Mt Angel Academy with her teaching certificate, my mother, Hilda (then Krantz) Beitel, set out on her first travel adventure. She and her mother, Theresa Ahl Krantz, took the train from Salem, Oregon, to Primate, Saskatchewan. They visited Theresa's parents, John and Anna Ahl, and her brother George Ahl and his family. It had been many years since they had seen each other. Hilda kept a trip diary in the little notebook pictured below.
About seventy years later, I found the notebook. While organizing old family photos I realized that some of the photos were taken on the trip. Ten of the thirteen photos referenced in the diary were found. Number 7 and 8 of "Grandma's house" and number 9 "the Old Zink", whatever or whomever she meant by that, are missing. Otherwise, Mom's words and photos are together again so you can travel along back to 1930.
Elizabeth (Beitel) DeAngelis
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The Trip
Daily Diary of the Train Trip and Activities -the complete text of her diary (pdf file).
- Photos from Yahk, B.C. and Primate, Sas., Canada -Yahk Hotel, Primate school
- Photos from Primate, Sas., Canada -photos of the church in Primate, grain elevators, and Ahls chicken coop
- Photos of Mom & Grandma with the Relatives -Mom & Grandma with some of the family in Canada
- Diary Selections: On the Way -scans of some of the handwriting
- Diary Selections: Coming Home -more handwriting and sketches
- Trip Souvenir Postcards, etc. - a little sticker inside the notebook, vintage postcards from Calgary and Banff, and Sentinel Mt. at Crow's Nest
Related Photos -Hilda's first school kids (McCully Mt.- 1929), Krantz siblings in 1932
Notes from the back of the diary (pdf) -the rest of the notes in the book include a complete list of all the moves that Mom made with her family, all the information she needed to apply for citizenship, taxes that were owed on property in Primate, and a few other odds and ends.
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| Mom (Hilda) kept her notes in this 3.5 inch by 5.75 inch notebook. If you look closely, her name is written in pencil in the upper right hand corner, "H. Krantz".
In the back of the book she made some notes, probably in preparation for her application for American citizenship (link at left).
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