John Herman Heft

  Research Notes:

Ancestry.com FT
Heft FT1; https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/family-tree/person/tree/120413460/person/220196144694/facts
Brodin Ostlund FT; https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/family-tree/person/tree/7531887/person/7008658261/facts




1911 Canada Census, Moose Jaw (211) sub/ED 58 page 1, line 9
Herman Heft age 32, b 1879 in US; em 1911; land: Sec 1, Twp 21, Range 11 [W3] - this is likely homestead land

1921 Canada Census, Kindersley Dis 217, ED 2, Victory Municipality (no 226) [ 30 kms east of Kyle, SK, on north side of South SK River]; dw and fam 53 [note the next family is brother Edward]

Herman Heft, age 40, b in US, em 1911
wife Mary, age 26 b in SK
Edna, age 5 [ 1916]
Florence, age 4
Doreata age 1

1926 Canada, Prairie Provinces, North Battleford, ED 40, City of North Battleford page 9, dw 83 fam 98, address, 1251 Arthur St
Herman Heft, age 45, b in US, em 1910
wife Marie, age 30 b in MB
Edna, age 10 [ 1916]
Florence, age 8
Dorothy age 6
Eva age 4


SK Homestead, file 2125099; he took homestead on a previous cancellation; SE Sec 1, Twp 21, Range 11, W3
image 361 - sworn statesment by Herman Heft re; apply for patent
- entry - 24 Mar 1911
- question 5 - when not on homestead, where? - North Dakota, farming
image 366 - patent approved
- somewhat similar to his brother Edward, Herman had received grain and fodder advance that became a lean on his homestead quarter as well as back taxes. But with poor crops etc, he hadn't been able to pay. Image 389 indicates that he had left the homestead around 1921. In 1924 the homestead was sold to pay back taxes. There is a letter on 11 Apr 1930 with his address as 1392 John St in North Battleford; there also an indication that he lived for a few years in Prince Albert (1925) and/or St Warberg which is about 100+ kms north of North Battleford.

last image, 415; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9HB-T93Y-L?i=414&wc=9HTC-N38%3A1046474701&cc=1916143

Ancestry: Canada Voter Lists, 1935-1980
Herman and Marie - at 715 Gilmore Ave South, Burnaby - retired


BC Death Registration, 1961-09-012224
Herman John Heft
- lived at 241 North Sea Ave, Burnaby
- died 24 Oct 1961 at St Paul's Hospital
- in Burnaby for 6 years [1955], 19 years in BC [1942], in Canada 50 [1911]
- birth as 14 Jun 1880 in MN
- steam engineer at Anderson Brothers Sawmill
informant, Marie , wife ⁸⁹⁶⁰

John married Marie Friesen. (Marie Friesen was born on 6 Jun 1895 in Bloomfield, Manitoba, Canada and died on 25 Dec 1985 in Burnaby, British Columbia.)