Jaring timmerman biography for kids

Timmerman was four years old sailing on the Rhine River with his father on his family's boat.
 
The young boy heard a band playing on a passing boat.

Unaware of the dangers of the water, he jumped in thinking he could swim to the other boat.

"I was on deck of our ship and I jumped overboard," recalled Timmerman. "I was bouncing in the water because I didn't know how to swim.

I was just so happy to hear the band playing and I wanted to get closer to the music."

That was his first big splash in the water.

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A century later, he's still swimming against all odds thanks to the sailor on the other boat who saw the boy plunge into the river on that day. "He dove in and he pulled me out, otherwise I wouldn't be here today," he said.
 
The Timmerman family was lured from the Netherlands to Canada with the promise of farmland in Manitoba, but the ground was hard and rocky and the family relocated to Winnipeg.

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