January 2023Back to top
Advent Tannenbaum Lighting Festival at St. Matthew Lutheran Church
Chapter Annual Christmas Party
Ukrainian Christmas Eve
"Keeping Our Organization Alive" - positions that need filling
Febuary 2023Back to top
January General Meeting - Potluck Lunch - Food Demonstration - sharing memories of sausage making, tasting samples
2000 Census of Germans living in Russia
March 2023Back to top
Chapter Annual General Meeting - fundraiser
Photos of the old Chapter Board members
Photos of the new Chapter Board members
April 2023Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - Potluck Lunch - presenter Karen Sproule "Journey to Galicia and Volhynia"
New in Chapter library - National Geographic magazine "Catherine the Great"
Treffen Tuesday by presenter Brenda Smith "British Columbia Trapper Frank Webber"
Steve Eberle of Germans from Russia Heritage Society gathering a list of those who served in the Russo-Japanese War.
Riverside School of Calgary collecting archival items.
Passing of Martha Giesinger
May 2023Back to top
Final Chapter General Meeting Post Pandemic - fundraiser - 45th Anniversary cake - presenter Oksana Prykhodke
"Her Family's Journey From the Ukraine to Canada"
Kalyna Berry (high bush cranberries) - Ukrainian National Berry by Susan Kuzina
Passing of Darla Rohl
Notice of Volhynian speakers in Edmonton - Alex Brzhezitsky & Erika Lefevre
June 2023Back to top
Summer convention notices
Bridgeland-Riverside Calgary General Hospital Project
New in the Chapter library - "The Great Cookie War", "Last Green Valley"
August 2023Back to top
New in the Chapter library - "Letters from Hell - Volga German Famine Letters Published in Die Welt Post 1920-1921",
"Letters from Hell - Volga German Famine Letters Published in Die Welt Post 1922", "Kapitel Aus Der Geschichte
Des Kolonisationsprojeckts Von Katharina II 1763-1775," "The Volga Germans of West Central Kansas."
Passing of Wilf Thiele
Important historical dates to remember
Information about the Historical Society of Germans from Poland & Volhynia, and the Edmonton & District Chapter of the American
Historical Society of Germans from Russia.
September 2023Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - Potluck Lunch - presenter Erika Schlager "On Her Mennonite Family's Journey From Austria via
Russia and China to Canada"
Recipe for Barbequed Short Ribs by Donna Boland with an outline of her family's history
New in the Chapter library - book donations by Dwayne Janke
Bridgeland-Riverside park naming - Schule Park approved
November 2023Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - Harvest lunch - fundraiser - Members "Remembering Remembrance Day War through the Eyes of a Child"
and reading of "In Flanders Fields"
Passing of Phil Streifel
Diamond and Centennial books for North and South Dakota available for purchase from NDSU
Notice of 2024 AHSGR Convention
December 2023Back to top
Chapter Annual Christmas Party
Update on membership
Lost connections with relatives re-established during the Harvest Lunch
German Church Service live-streamed from Lincoln, Nebraska
January 2024Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - Potluck lunch - Members memories of canning and winter food preparation
Library News - cookbooks and children's books
Calgary General Hospital Commemorative Project information session dates
Notices of upcoming events
Febuary 2024Back to top
Chapter Annual General Meeting - fundraiser
Treffen Tuesday presentation by Marilyn Murray
Book Report - "In The Far Country"
How to find AHSGR members and their research interest on the AHSGR website
Edmonton AGS Ukrainian Special Interest Group
South America Alemanes Del Volga en Argentina festivals
Saskatchewan German Council publications for sale
Germanic Genealogy Society beginning German researchers help
Easter Babka recipe by Justina Penner
Photo of 2024 Executive officers
Bach to Jesus concert at Highwood Lutheran Church with two pastors from Russia
April 2024Back to top
Green ash trees on the prairies
Core Sample Project for Drought Years 1916 to 1926
Passing of Merv Fox, Don Morrison and Marjorie Fox
Bridgeland-Riverside walking tour link - Poffenroth/Dewall Block
Borscht Talk Canada link
April folklore poem
Books published on the emigrants to Hungary link
Chapter General Meeting - Hot Potluck - Black Sea Research by Uli Anhorn
May 2024Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - fundraiser - Show & Share - Members Germans from Russia treasures
Treffen Tuesday - Dr. C. C. Young and Karakul sheep
Joint Calgary and Edmonton Chapter Zoom presentation of the Zahl and Schissler families by Kara Louise Hefner
Phenology - spring
Passing of Kat Streifel, Manfred Prokop
GRHS "Der Stammbaum" now found on their website
YouTube "Echoes of Exile" link
International Museum Day featuring Aldea Spatzenkutter (formerly Marienfeld) Argentina in South America
August 2024Back to top
Review of over the summer presentations and Germans from Russia news
Germans from Russia threshing stones - Kansas, Nebraska, Saskatchewan
Regina Chapter presentation by Michael Miller and Ann Braaten
History of the Calgary Chapter newsletter
September 2024Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - Potluck lunch - Continuation of Black Sea Research by Uli Anhorn
Display of maps brought by Dennis Bender of Medicine Hat
Alberta Family Histories Society Conference - Chapter display and attendance by Chapter members
News from Bridgeland-Riverside - Langevin/Riverside School, Roma Grocery, Italian Club and Spicy Hut block.
New use for Riverside Bungalow School
Information sessions for Calgary General Hospital Commemorative Project
News from Pastor Camp
South American National Immigrant Day and surnames of early settlers
Major renovation of the Germans from Russia wing of North Dakota State University
November 2024Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - Harvest lunch - fundraiser - presenters Constable Doroftel, Calgary Police Service, Ashley McKay, Better Business Bureau
Book Review - "The Traitor's Daughter" by Sheila Heinrich
Passing of Doris Skrivers
Upcoming Germans from Russia events
German Mennonite Choir singing in Brazil link
Bunnock rules in Argentina versus Canada
Book for sale "Anna's Red Purse" by Anne Stang
Western People article "A Canadian at Heart" by Maria Rogalski June 29, 1995
December 2024Back to top
Chapter Annual Christmas Party - Fun with quizzes, Christmas readings, singing in German and English
Passing of Darrel Janz (2009 AHSGR Medicine Hat Convention presenter)
Notice of Yagodnaya Polyana Zoom event in January with My Heritage
Notice of Germans from Russia Yagodnaya Polyana event in Leavenworth, Washington April 2025
Recipe - Palatschinken (Sees Blini)
Western People article "The gift horses" by Joan Kraft November 28, 1996
January 2025Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - Hot Potluck - food demonstation - Palatschinken by Fritz Kiessling
Recipes - Palatschinken with jam, Palatschinken with cottage cheese filling
Passing of Reno Bexte, Bob Williams, Fern Wildeman
Upcoming Germans from Russia events
Febuary 2025Back to top
Chapter Annual General Meeting - fundraiser
Passing of Hal Lust
Recipes - Easter Bread, What do other cultures prepare for Easter? Grebble (Twisted Donuts)
Reprinted recipes by Ruby Sherman and Elsie Kromm
Upcoming Germans from Russia events
Two new books in German in the library about Lutheran churches in "Amerika"
April 2025Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - Potluck Lunch - presentation "What is a Doukhobor" by Lisa Cathcart
Review of Chapter library Black Sea researchers meet-up
Treffen Tuesday - review of presentation "Migrations and Mobilities in Post Soviet Eurasia" by Antonio Eduardo Mendonca, Portuguese Senior Anthropologist
Review of webinars by Legacy software and SGGEE - using older genealogical and historical periodicals, and Hamburg/Bremerhaven passenger lists
Western People article about the Doukhobor flour mill in Grand Forks BC
May 2025Back to top
Chapter General Meeting - fundraiser - "Memories of a Prairie Spring" by Susan Kuzina
Meeting dates for 2026
Review and 2026 dates for Yagodnaya Polyana Conference Leavenworth, Washington USA
Passing of Karen Shaw, Ted Grimm
St. Matthew Lutheran Church Open House
Links to: Wordsmith.org (Siberianize); Museum of Fine Arts, Kazakhstan; Jakob Riffel Museum, Argentina; Mennonite Colony, Patagonia; Adelaide Hills, Australia
Western People article about the summer kitchen
June 2025Back to top
Book Report by Donna Boland - "Marta's Promise" by Jeanne Dennis and Sheila Seifert
Passing of Chapter Board Member Ken Heinrich
Treffen Tuesday review on the History of Hatti Plum Williams
Looking for information on the Russian/Ukrainian Evangelical Christian Church in Bridgeland-Riverside
Links to: Khan to learn German (Facebook); Full size map of Europe 1799
Brother Placid's 90th Birthday tribute
Western People article "Announcing the weather"
