Peter Plug

 

Peter Plug                                           

Born: 2 December 1941                                                                     Died: 17 August 1987

Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid Holland, NETHERLANDS                                                 Sarnia Ontario CANADA



Emigrated: June 1947

from The Netherlands to Canada  

aboard the SS Waterman



Married: Berendina (Diane) Hutten

9 July 1965

Kentville NS CANADA










Children:













Parents:

- Pieter Plug (b.1903  d.1976)

  1. -Neeltje Lindhout (b.1901 d.1979)





Minister in the Christian Reformed Church



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Historical Context:

  1. -June 1941: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union and repudiates the treaty alliance

  2. -December 1941:

    Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

    USA enters WWII

  1. -July 1941: first commercial television broadcast

  2. -born in 1941: Joan Baez, Placido Domingo, Bob Dylan, David Johnston, Paul Anka, Chubby Checker.

- 1942: Nazis convert Westerbork refugee camp into a deportation camp.

Irene Blass-Plug (wife of Johannes Plug and aunt of Bill Plug) and Anne Frank were  both interned in Westerbork before being send to their deaths in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen respectively.

  1. -1942: Construction of the “Atlantic Wall” begins in Noordwijk

  2. -January 1943: Princess Margriet is born in Ottawa Canada

  3. -1944: Nazis commence V-1 rocket attacks on London from Noordwijk area

- June 1944: D-Day invasion by Allied Forces

  1. -May 1945: Netherlands is liberated by Canadian forces.

  2. -May 1945: VE Day (Victory in Europe)

  3. -August 1945: VJ Day (Victory in Japan)

  4. -June 1947: The Pieter Plug family (with wife Neeltje Lindhout and children Willem, Hendrick, Jacoba, Artje, Johannes and Pieter) emigrate to Canada, aboard the SS Waterman, and take up residence in Sarnia Ontario.

  5. - Sept 1948: Queen Wilhelmina abdicates the Dutch throne in favour of her daughter Queen Juliana

  6. -1949: Mao Zedong establishes the People’s Republic of China

  7. -1967: Canada’s Centennial

  8. -1969: First Man on the Moon

  9. -1986: Bill Vander Zalm (a native of Noordwijkerhout NL) is elected Premier of British Columbia