University of Manitoba: Prairie Immigration



The Collected Archives Czech Hallama Family fonds Marketa Newman fonds Danish Per Holting fonds English Spencer Family fonds German Frederick Philip Grove fonds Dieter Roger fonds Icelandic Skapti Arason fonds Simon Simonarson fonds Irish Dixon/Baker Family fonds Jewish Sybil Shack fonds Rumanian Tennenhouse Family fonds Scottish Copland, Hunter and Anderson Family fonds MacDonald Family fonds Turks and Caicos Islands Lewis St. George Stubbs fonds Ukrainian Alpha Omega Society fonds Michael Ewanchuk fonds Klymkiw Family fonds Bill Lobchuk fonds Parks Canada fonds G.W. Simpson fonds Mary Wawrykow fonds Bill Wsiaki fonds Anne Yanchyshyn fonds Roman Yereniuk fonds Various Ethnicities & Immigration Policy Ed Kleiman fonds A.S. Morton Manuscript Collection W.C. Murray fonds Mabel Timlin fonds Winnipeg Tribune fonds	Click here to view the digitized archival material. Institution: University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections Collection Identifier: MSS SC 128, PC 123 Title: Hallama Family fonds Dates: 1900-1938, 1990 Extent: 3.5 cm of textual records. -- 8 photographs. Biographical Sketch: Wenceslaus Hallama settled in Canada in 1891, and purchased land near Grande Pointe from his Uncle Joseph Schwab four years later. He married Barbara Blahnik from Bohemia and they had two children. Wenceslaus was the first farmer in the area to own a seed drill, and a gasoline tractor. In 1938, their only son Joseph took over the farm until 1971. In 1971 his son Edward took over the farm. Digitized Material: The digitized material from the Hallama Family fonds consists of photographs, farm account books and a history of the Hallama family and farm. Click here to view a full description of the Hallama Family fonds.