Pieter Plug

 

Historical Context:

  1. -1900: Population estimates:

    ..World - 1.6 billion

    ..Europe - 284 million

    ..Netherlands - 5 million

    ..Canada - 5 million

- 1901: Marconi send the first wireless transAtlantic message from England to Newfoundland

  1. -1903 (June 16): Henry Ford launches the Ford Motor Company

  2. -1903 (December 17): Wright Brothers first flight

  3. -1903: also born in 1903; King Clancy (d.1986), Lawrence Welk (d.1992), Benjamin Spock (d.1998),

Bing Crosby (d.1977), Bob Hope (d.2003), Lou Gehrig (d.1941), George Orwell (d.1950).

  1. -1906: Great Earthquake of San Francisco

  2. -1908: First Model T manufactured by the Ford Motor Company

  3. -1912: The Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic

  4. -1914: Germany declares war on France. World War I begins and Netherlands remains neutral.

  5. -1917: Russian Revolution

  6. -1918 (to 1920): “Spanish flu” (influenza) sweeps the world killing between 50 and 100 million people.

  7. -1921/22: Noordwijk Vuurtoren is constructed

  8. -1922: Women win the right to vote in The Netherlands

  9. -1928: IX (Summer) Olympic Games held in Amsterdam

  10. -1929: The Great Depression begins in North America and Europe

  11. -1932: Zuider Zee Project commences

  12. -1933: Hitler appointed a Chancellor of Germany

  13. -1939: Dutch government opens Westerbork as a refugee camp

  14. -1939 September: Nazi Germany invades Poland and World War II commences.

    Netherlands declares neutrality: WWII

    England and Canada declare war on Nazi Germany

  1. -1940 May:

    Germany invades Netherlands

    Germany severely bombs Rotterdam

    Netherlands surrenders and becomes occupied territory

   Queen Wilhelmina evacuates to England establishes government in exile

- 1940: Princess Juliana in exile in Ottawa

- 1941 January: Princess Margriet is born in Ottawa Canada

  1. -1941 December: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and  USA enters WWII

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

Irene Blass-Plug (wife of Jan Plug and sister-in-law of Pieter Plug) and Anne Frank were  both interned in Westerbork before being send to their deaths in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen respectively.

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

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

- 1944 June: D-Day invasion by Allied Forces

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

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

  3. -1945 August: 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. 1948 September: Queen Wilhelmina abdicates the Dutch throne in favour of her daughter Queen Juliana

  5. -1949: Mao Zedong establishes the People’s Republic of China

  6. -1967: Canada’s Centennial

  7. -1969: First Man on the Moon

Pieter Plug                                 Married: Neeltje Lindhout

Born: 13 September 1903                            19 February 1929

Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid Holland, NL                        Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid Holland, NL



Died: 21 April 1976                                     Emigrated: June 1947

- Sarnia Ontario CANADA                                            from The Netherlands to Canada                                                                                                                             

                                                                        aboard the SS Waterman


Children:

  






  Willem Plug      Hendrick C Plug          Jacoba Plug              Artje H C Plug        Johannes C Plug    Pieter Plug

b. 12 Jan 1930                                                                                                                                                  b. 02 Dec 1941

d. 21 Feb 2001                                                                                                                                                 d. 17 Aug 1987



Proprietor:

  1. -Bloemen Magazijn Hortensia

    Hoofdstraat 21, Noordwijk aan Zee NL


  1. -Cayuga Florist,

    Sydenham Street, Cayuga ON CANADA


Parents:

- Willem Plug (b.1865 d.1944)

  1. -Jacoba Barnhoorn (b.1867 d.1944


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Pieter Plug and Neeltje Lindhout-Plug

(40th Wedding Anniversary 1969))

Pieter Plug (circa 1932)

Pieter Lindhout, Magdelena Middleburg, Neeltje Lindhout, and Pieter Plug

(ca 1928)

Hortensia

Hoofdstraat 21,Noordwijk aan Zee

(circa 1943)

Willem Plug, Jacoba Barnhoorn-Plug, Neeltje Lindhout-Plug, Pieter Plug, Artje Barnhoorn-Plug, HC Lindhout

(19 February 1929)