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It all began with an immigrant family from Holland, docking in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada in 1954. After spending a few nights at Pier 21, the Visser family came to Prince Edward Island and it was love at first sight.
A farm was eventually purchased in Orwell Cove, P.E.I. where the soil
looked rich and fertile and the landscape was more beautiful than in their dreams before leaving Holland.
Over time the Visser children started families of their own and scattered
throughout Canada. Gerrit, one of the eleven children, met his wife (also an immigrant from Holland) and neither of them could think of a better place to start a family than right here in Orwell Cove.
After starting out with with dairy and hogs, Gerrit later converted the farm to a potato farm, which was his true passion, and continues to be to this day. Of the six children in his family, William, the eldest, shared his father's love of the land even at an early age. Some years later, Randy, the youngest son, joined the two to
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