Marianne & Rolf on a date walking down Granville Street in October, 1958. They were both immigrants from Europe and met at YWCA dance in Vancouver. Admission was 50 cents. Rolf had been so determined to come to Canada he gambled at a horse track until he made enough money to board a freighter from Hamburg, Germany in September, 1954. On April 26, 1956, Marianne arrived in Montreal on the S.S. Ivernia, Cunard Line passenger ship from Liverpool.