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FINNIGAN, Joan

1992-0109

Sound

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1980-12

Joan Finnigan (Interviewer)

Interview of Henry Bimm of Eganville, Ontario, descendant of early German settlers in the Ottawa Valley. Bimm relates that his grandparents fled Germany in 1880 to escape the Seven Years War in Europe. Some of the family settled at Rockingham, Ontario, and his grandparents settled at [Ruby] near Cobden and later at Eganville where his grandfather established a blacksmith shop catering to the needs of the Valley lumber trade. Bimm recalls that the family was joined by a cousin, a member of the Zaddo family and a woodworker by trade. Speaking of his father, Bimm talks about the Eganville general store which his father founded in 1911 and which Bimm eventually took over.

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