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- http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/stoilom1/citizenship/johnl/interview.htm (accessed 8 Apr 2014)
On a February 21st, 1925 Hendrikui Verberk and Cornelia De Weerd had a son named Lambertus Verberk, also Known as Bep.
Verberk lived in a vallage called Nijmegen not 12 miles from the German border. Nijmegen is in the Netherlands or in Dutch Nederlands.
Verberk was born into a family with two Sisters and one Brother. Verberk told me a story. The story was that during the Second World War people that were in between the ages of 15 to 55 had to have a pass saying that said that they ether were a student or had a job that helped the NAZI soldiers. Well this brother didn't have one. Well one night his brother went to a soccer game and at half time the hole filed filled with solders and he didn't have one so they put him in a concentration camp. Well in the Concentration camp his brother had an affair with one of the guards wives which got him free food. He told me that after the war she sent him a letter.
In Canada, English schools teach us French as a second language. Well we're lucky, because in Holland they are taught French, English, German, and there spoken Language Dutch.
As a child Verberk Learned how to box. He told me he learned how to box because he liked to follow his brother around, and when did his brother would beat him up.
Verberk told me a story about when he was a teenager during the second world war. He was coming from Germany and a NAZI solder took his bike and he had to walk fifteen miles home. He told me that it wasn't that long of a walk for him but considering that the bike was the most popular way of transportation back then I'd be mad.
By the end of the Second World War His sister had married a Canadian solder and moved to Canada. This mother was worried about her and asked him he would move to Canada to look after her. So at twenty-four years old and he left home for Canada.
He spent two weeks on a boat and finally he reached the shores of Quebec on May 17,1949. But his sister lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, so he was going to take a train there. The train stopped at every stop to unload and reload milk jugs. By the time he got to Halifax the train station was closed. Verberk walked to what he thought was Hollis street and found a taxi stand. He asked if he could sit there over night. One of the taxi drivers told him he could go on all the runs with him for the night, so he got to see allot of the city. The next morning he took the train to Yarmouth, but got off at the wrong stop. His sister was waiting at the other stop. He decided to catch a ride with the mail man who knew were his sister lived. The mail car dropped him off at a closer stop to his sister house. He walked to his sister house and was waiting on the steps when she came home from the train station.
Verberk attended Dalhousie University and worked during the summer as a Geological Surveyor for his teacher.
Verberk got his official Canadian Citizenship on January 4, 1956, he was thirty-one years old.
On November 7, 1955 exactly thirty-three years before I was born he married Anna Anthony of kennecook, Nova Scotia.
Anna Anthony is my grandmother, Meldon M. Bartlett's, cousin.
Verberk was teacher at St. Pat's high in Halifax.
Verberk now has two sons and a daughter, and currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Lambertus VERBERK
Nom : VERBERK Pr?nom : Lambertus
Date de d?c?s : 2008-12-29
Paru le : 2009-01-06
P?re : Hendrikus Verberk
M?re : Cornelia De Weerd
Conjoint(e)(s) : Anna Anthony
Mr. Lambertus "Bep" Verberk February 21, 1925 - December 29, 2008
Of Kennetcook, Hants Co., formerly of Rockingham, passed away suddenly December 29, 2008. Born February 21, 1925, in Nijmegan, Holland, he was a son of the late Hendrikus and Cornelia (De Weerd)
Verberk. He is survived by his wife, Anna (Anthony); daughter, Susanne (Kamran) Nisar, Bible Hill; sons, Lambertus "Bep" (Natalie), Ottawa; Hendrik "Tony" (Mary-Lynn), Halifax; grandchildren, Jake Verberk, Nicholas Verberk, Adam Nisar, Noah Nisar, Luke Verberk, Julia Verberk; sister, Reit Kuling, Nijmegan; several nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by sister, Catherine "Toos" Verberk and brother, Garret Verberk of Nijmegan. Bep served in the Dutch Navy during the Second World War and came to Canada in 1947. A graduate of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Bep taught for 32 years at St. Patrick's High School, where he was Head of the Math Department. He was a founding member of the Rockingham Chapter of the Knights of Columbus and became a Forth Degree Knight. He was actively involved as a volunteer with several minor sports associations for over 25 years. Bep was also a member of the Atlantic Region German Shepard Dog Club and The Canadian Kennel Club. Visitation will be held 2-4, 7-9 p.m. Friday, January 2, in Atlantic Funeral Home, 6552 Bayers Rd., Halifax. A funeral mass will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, January 3, in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Bedford Highway. Reception to follow in St. Lawrence's Church, Fairview. Burial will be in Kennetcook Cemetery, Kennetcook. Family flowers only. Donations to a charity of one's choice. On-line condolences may be sent to the family at: www.atlanticfuneralhomes.com
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1925 - 2008 (83 years)