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The last words of Thorne’s German past

The last words of Thorne’s German past

Gerda Bretzlaff (left), Gerd Hemken (centre) and Karl Erfle (right) are three of the few remaining German speakers in Thorne, and recently gathered in Bretzlaff’s home in Ladysmith for a conversation about the language’s legacy in a community once founded in part by German settlers.
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K.C. Jordan
kc@theequity.ca

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