80 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
My father, Emil NEUMANN, and his bride Adolina, sailed on the ship, Empress of Australia, departing Southampton, England for Quebec City, on May 11, 1929, 80 years ago this momth. Emil and Adolina had gone to Volhynia in March (from south Ukraine – Zaporozhia) to complete their exit paperwork before leaving by train from Korosten to Moscow, then from Moscow to Riga, Latvia, where they sailed on the S. S. Baltriger to London England, with a brief stop in Danzig along the way to pick up passengers. After a stay in the Atlantic Park Hostel, near Southampton, they finally set off on this trans-Atlantic Voyage. They landed at Quebec City, officially accepted as landed immigrants on May 19th, and then set off for Saskatchewan by CPR train, arriving in southern Saskatchewan around May 24-26.

I used the Library and Archives Canada site to check out what other passengers on this ship were Germans from Russia, and I found three such families (ages in parenthesis):
DOBERMAN: Joseph (35) and Martha (38) and children, Reinhold (14), Robert (12), Valentina (5) and Nina (2)
KLEBE: Ernst (49) and Anna (47) and children Jonathan (20), David (11), Attilise (17), Aduna (16), and Johann (6)
SCHLAK: Friedrich (44) and Martha (51), and Vanada (15)

I am posting this message to see whether relatives or descendants of any of these three families have information about this 1929 voyage on the Empress of Australia. I would be interested in comparing notes and sharing stories. I am interested in these three families because my father, Emil NEUMANN and his wife Adolina, made the same voyage, and these families are all Germans from Russia (Ukraine).

More details from Canadian Archives
I searched the records and found more details that may help, although the printing in these records can sometimes be difficult to see on-line.

DOBERMAN, Joseph (35) identified Ernst Lange, a cousin, as his destination contact in Guernsey Saskatchewan. He also lists his parents, Ferdinand and Augusta Doberman, of Korosten District, Volhynia, as his relatives in the land he left. Joseph Doberman travelled with his wife, Martha, and children, Nina, Valentina, Robert and Reinhold.

KLEBE, Ernst (49) identified his daughter, M. Mass (Hass?) and son-in-law, Jonathan Mass, as his closest relatives in the place he came from. They lived in Lungewej, Wiestental, Shitomir Kreis. His destination in Canada is the CPR Col Dept. Ernst KLEBE travelled with his wife, Anna, and children, Aduna, Attilise, David, Johann & Jonathan.

SCHLAK, Friedrich (44) lists his destination/sponsor as the Lutheran Immigration Board of Canada (LIB) office in Winnipeg MB. Relative in the homeland identified is his brother, Adolph SCHLAK, of Bobritzkaya Buda, Volhynia, Ukraine. Note: Bobritzkaya Buda was also known as Gnadental. We were there last year searching for information on relatives – possible connections to Kallasch family. Friedrich SCHLAK travelled with his wife, Martha, and his daughter, Vanada.

Please contact me if you are in any way connected with these families. I believe they would have known one another, and known my father, Emil NEUMANN and his wife Adolina, who travelled on the same ship. Emil’s grandfather, Christian NEUMANN, lived in Ostrowka, Volhynia, very close to Gnadental (Bobritzkaya Buda), and he started his journey out of the USSR by taking the train from Korosten to Moscow in March 1929. All four families (NEUMANN, DOBERMAN, KLEBE and SCHLAK) were supported by the Lutheran Immigration Board of Canada. I suspect that the SCHLAK family may have been related to Adolina, so I am especially interested in any SCHLAK connections you may have.