Peter Frank came to Canada from Germany in 1929 with his parents and siblings. His parents were Fritz and Anna Christine Frank from Schleswig Holstein, and the children were Erna, John, Peter (who was 16 at the time), and Christine. After experiencing the First world war, Fritz wanted to escape the imminent Second world war by immigrating to Canada. He was fascinated by the tales of hunting and trapping in the Canadian wilderness. The whole family sailed to Halifax, taking the train onwards to Kamloops BC. However, the landscape was not what they had imagined, so they returned to Edmonton. Taking a train up north to the Peace River country, Fritz, John and Peter filed on homesteads in the Northmark-Chinook Valley area. Peter and John stayed on their lands to build a shelter, while Fritz returned and moved up with the rest of the family (except Erna who stayed in Edmonton to work), with train cars loaded with cows, horses, and implements to start their farming. Peter joined the army in WW ll, and after his discharge he attended Bible School and other colleges to become a minister. While he was at the west coast, Peter married Iris Patton, and they had two daughters, Sheryl and Marlene.
Source: Burnt Embers p. 110 photo in uniform, p. 146 Family story of Fritz and Anna Frank