Adolph Kwinta's initial Passenger Declaration provides compelling evidence as to the genesis of the  two 'streams' of the Kwinta and Kwinter family names.  This Passenger Declaration is the first document where the name Kwinter appears as opposed to the name,  Kwinta.  Archivists at the Canadian Museum of Immigration explained that it was a common occurrence during the early part of the 20th century for Canadian immigration officials dealing with newly arrived immigrants who neither spoke nor wrote English to use phonetically based spelling to complete official documents.  In  Adolph Kwinta's Passenger Declaration, the document lists the passenger's family name as Kwinta while the section dealing with the passenger's closest family in the country where the passenger came from indicates the closest family member as being one Chael Kwinter, the passenger's father.  This is an obvious mistake.  But it is a mistake that may well have been purposefully adopted by the newly arrived immigrant.  The archivists suggested a second important reason for the transformation of Adolph Kwinta to Aaron Kwinter.   The young Adolph Kwinta arrived in Canada shortly after the end of World War One, when anti-Germanic feelings were running high both in Canada and other Allied nations who had all lost millions of soldiers fighting and defeating imperial Germany. It would not be surprising if the young Adolph Kwinta chose a more anglophone or western style name.  Adolph Kwinta, of Chenstachove, Poland,  married Millie Abrams in York , Ontario, on August 28, 1921.  By the time of the birth of David Kwinter,  on October 18, 1923,  the father of the child was listed as Aaron Kwinter and the mother, as Mildred Abrams. The transformation of Adolph Kwinta to Aaron Kwinter was now complete.  And the fissure between the two different family names: Kwinta and Kwinter, had now been established for posterity.