{"id":25,"date":"2013-01-10T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:34:50","slug":"my-deep-roots-at-menno-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mennosmartin.com\/blog\/my-deep-roots-at-menno-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"My Deep Roots at Menno Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a wonderful surprise at my family Christmas dinner when my dad gave me this key tag his father, Owen got from <a href=\"\/meet-the-team.htm\">Menno Martin<\/a> in the 1950&#8217;s when he <a href=\"\/services.htm\">renovated<\/a> their family farm kitchen. Menno went on to build their new house when they moved into town from the farm in the mid 1960\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>I remember Menno Martin telling me that my maternal grandfather, Enoch worked with him for a short time back in the 1930\u2019s before Enoch started his career at Home Hardware 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Menno also told me on a little road trip I took with him one afternoon that he built the farm house I grew up in just outside of Floradale.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It seems my connections to Menno Martin Contractor run very deep. It is funny how life comes around as now I\u2019m co-owner of <a href=\"why-menno-s-martin.htm\">the company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Trent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a wonderful surprise at my family Christmas dinner when my dad gave me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blasts-from-the-past"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My Deep Roots at Menno Martin - Menno S Martin Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mennosmartin.com\/blog\/my-deep-roots-at-menno-martin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Deep Roots at Menno Martin - 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