Ella Benndorf

Aloisia's New Beginnings & Other Stories Ella Benndorf

In 1926, Aloisia Schropp, a young German woman, had received beautifully hand-written letters from an old friend describing his globe-trotting adventures. Following a devastating heartbreak in her home village, she decides to join him in Canada in the hope of finding a better life in a new country. Imagine her shock when the 'farm' turns out to be heavy forest in the wilderness of British Columbia and the 'house' is a shack in the middle of nowhere. The challenges and tragedies of homesteading and farming in Canada are faithfully recounted in this collection of stories by their daughter, Ella Benndorf.