Madonna: Bawdy and Soul

Tamara Jones is Production Stage Manager/Operations Supervisor,
Entertainment Department, Paramount Canada’s Wonderland.

Rose Hertel Falkenhagen is the daughter of Paul Hertel, a German who
arrived in Canada in the 1930s. In 1991, 10 years after her father’s
death, Rose began to pull together the many details of his life,
starting with his upbringing in Germany as the son of a butcher.

The book provides a detailed and intimate picture of life during the
Depression and World War II. Paul and his wife Grete toiled at the task
of homesteading, surviving by farming and trapping. One year, after
their home was washed away in a great flood, they walked into the
wilderness with little else but the shirts on their backs and two
children in tow. Two years later, they left their wilderness cabin and
once again sought opportunity in the towns and villages of southern
British Columbia. Shunned because of their German heritage, the Hertel
family survived through a combination of ingenuity and hard work.

Written as though told by Paul Hertel himself, this captivating tale of
adventure and love testifies to the bravery and endurance of one
immigrant family during a unique period in Canadian history.