Introduction by Wilf Wunderlich.

We bought the Dairy in Giscome in 1941. Dad called it "Wunderlick's Dairy" (note the 'k'). Dad hated being called Wunderl 'itch', so he ordered the bottle caps with the 'lick'. We rented the neighbour's hay fields, which were between our place and the town site.

We moved from the old family homestead in Cudworth, Saskatchewan. Wesley Black was our teacher in Giscome. He later became a minister in the WAC Bennett cabinet.

The family did well there. Dad worked in the mill, and my older sister and I did the work around the farm. We moved to Dawes Hill near New Westminster in the fall of 1943. My older brother joined the army in 1942, and I joined in 1944.

We had up to 20 Holsteins, one Jersey and one Guernsey cow, 3 horses and a bunch of pigs and chickens. We supplied milk, cream, beef, pork and eggs to the mill boarding house, to Brown's Store, and milk and cream to the families in town. Roy Spurr, the mill owner, lived up on the hill west of the mill (many steps up to deliver 4 quarts of milk every day!!). Harold Mann ran the logging camp. Mr. Coster was the railroad section leader.

We now live at Maple Bay on Vancouver Island. We have three children and ten grandchildren. Our daughter is a school principal in Duncan, BC. Our oldest son is senior partner in a very active industrial engineering firm in Nanaimo and Prince George (Duncan Industrial Engineering). Our second son is a teacher in Salmon Arm, and author and contributing author to a number of math and science text and workbooks. The grandchildren are following in their footsteps.

1942 - Wunderlich Farm, Giscome. "Mom and Dad and some of our family, that's me on the left." (Wilf Wunderlich, 2002.)

 

1942 - Wunderlich Farm, Giscome."Dad acting up! That was home for 12 of us. The location was top of the hill where the barn now stands." (Wilf Wunderlich, 2002.)

 

1942 - Wunderlich Farm, Giscome." The milk house on the left, the pig pen beyond the cows and the corner of the barn on the right. There was a creek between the barn and the pigpen." (Wilf Wunderlich, 2002.)

 

1942 - Wunderlich Farm, Giscome. "I shot my first bear; of course, we ate it!" (Wilf Wunderlich, 2002.)