“It was a success. Once the people immigrated, they stayed for two years in Winnipeg to work on farms or landscaping until they found other full-time work for themselves. A lot of them put down roots in Winnipeg, but a lot came to Vancouver, too.
“The Martins, Remples, Brauns, Frissells and others were part of the immigration flow and they came to Vancouver in the early 1920s.
“You have to understand: once the other Baptist churches heard what that little Winnipeg church was doing, they all pitched in and did the same. There were tens of thousands of immigrants from Europe who came to Canada that way.
“In Vancouver, here in this community, they went to work landscaping, logging, or carpentry. They had family and a community when they came here. They weren’t alone. And the Martins were p
