06/08/2026
🌾 Farm Memories Monday 🌾
Welcome to the first post in a series highlighting the historic photos displayed throughout our Store. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing some of these images along with the stories behind them, helping explain why these photos are part of our space and preserving a bit of the history that helped shape Vrolyk Farms.
This week we’re sharing a photo of John and Henny Vrolyk, taken during the winter of 1934—possibly Henny’s very first Canadian winter.
John immigrated from Holland to Canada around 1926 and worked on various farms in the area while building a future for himself. During those years, he began corresponding with Henny, who was still living in Holland. After purchasing the land that would become the Vrolyk family home farm, John returned to Holland in 1934, met Henny in person, and proposed.
His proposal was straightforward: he had bought a farm in Canada and needed a wife to help him build a life there. Henny said yes.
Shortly after their wedding, they made the journey across the ocean together and began the hard work of establishing a farm and a family in a new country. Looking at this photo, standing among the snowbanks of a Canadian winter, it’s hard not to admire the courage, determination, and faith it took to start from scratch so far from home.
We’re grateful for the foundation they built and the legacy that continues on the farm today.
❤️ Do you have family members who immigrated to Canada and started a new life here? We’d love to hear their stories.
