Mordechai and his wife Rachel Leah were the parents of Elchonen, (Emil), the labourer who had defied the bullying foreman. Emil obtained title to his land on March 6, 1914.

      Emil was a brother to Chaya, who was married to Abram Hanzin. (The name Emil was given to him by an immigration officer who found it impossible to spell Elchonen.)

      Emil Hanson and his wife Sonia (Belkin) had four children, one whom died when he got lost in the woods at age 4. The other children are Marie Samuels of Calgary, Becky Rosenberg and Max Hanson.

      Emil and Sonia Hanson shared the homestead shack with his parents Mordechai and Rachel Leah and with Phyllis Epstein. A close neighbor was John Hector.

      Sam Hanson came over from Grodno to join his brother Abram in 1909. He left behind his pregnant wife Henya. Sam worked for the CPR to raise money for his wife's ticket. She sailed from Antwerp on the S.S. Berengaria with her year-old daughter, Ruby, in 1910.

      Sam Hanson worked on his brother Abram's homestead - as did Henya's brother Abraham Levin.

      Eventually Sam Hanson got his own place, a dairy farm on the outskirts of Calgary, near Deerfoot Trail at about 26th Avenue. He delivered bottled milk in Calgary in the early morning hours, with his sleigh bells waking up dozing policemen.

      Sam Hanson died in 1926. Sam and Henya had two daughters: Ruby (Switzer) and Dorothy (Katchen). They also had four sons: Samuel (Pathologist), Hymey (Pharmacist), Albert (Engineer) and Morris (Veterinarian). They all served in the armed forces in WW II.

      Moses Hart, a widower, arrived in Calgary in 1906 from Romania, where the family name was Herscovitz.

      With him came two of his daughters, twelve-year old Bertha and her older sister Sarah.

      Moses' son Jack and another daughter, Hannah, came later to live in Calgary. Jack Hart established the Famous Cloak ladies were store, which became well known in the city.

      Sarah married Jack Bercuson in 1906, and Bertha married Sam Segall in 1908. (See Bercuson and Segall family histories.

      Moses Hart died in 1925 and is buried in the Calgary Jewish Cemetery.

      John Hector left Odessa in 1906. The year before, Odessa Jews had experienced one of the bloodiest pogroms in Russian history, along with the brutally-crushed workers' revolt and sailors' mutiny of 1905. (Events of that tumultuous year in Odessa are told in film-maker Sergei Eisenstein's classic docudram the Battleship Potemkin.)

      When John Hector left, he didn't know his wife was pregnant, nor that it would take three years to send for her. Imagine his shock when his wife's sister Ester arrived along with his three-year-old daughter. His wife had died in childbirth.

      As was the orthodox custom, Esther and John were married. In the following years they had four children and then she died and John remarried.

      He was blessed with "golden" hands and understood machinery and electrical things. For a short time he worked for the recording industry and invented the change which brought about discs instead of cylinders. Having no knowledge of patent laws, all he received was a player and a few records.

      He had Hector's Machine Shop for many years. His three sons - Sam, Max and Morris - became well known in Calgary. Daughters Blanche and Beth married and lived in Chicago. Sam married Pat Bercuson, thereby uniting those two early families.

      Samuel Helman was the son of John and Esther (Finklestein) Helman of Winnipeg. He came to Calgary and articled in the legal firm of his brother-in-law J. B. Barron, and A. L. Barron.

      Admitted to the Alberta Bar in January, 1920, Samuel Helman went on to distinguish himself throughout a brilliant career. From 1922-31 he was a partner in the firm of McGillivary and Helman, and became a King's council (K.C.) in 1930.

      Helman had the honour of appearing before the Privy Council in Great Britain on more than one occasion.

      Samuel Helman had many and varied interests. Among them were sports (he received medals for track), photography, gardening and literature. He had a vast personal library and, as a result of an endowment to the Calgary Hebrew School, the library in that institution bears his name.

      He was married to Fanny (Goldstein) and in later years to Sabine (Nagler, Fradkin).

      Nate Horodezky, born in 1900, was just ten years old when he arrived in Calgary from Gomel, Russia, in 1910 along with his stepmother and his twin sister Sarah.

      His father Louis (d.1953) and older brother Jack (1889-1959) had arrived in 1907 and were homesteading in Rumsey. Another brother, Fred, arrived shortly after Nate.

      As there were no schools in Rumsey at that time, Sarah and Nate remained in Calgary with a married sister, Rose Dworkin, and her husband, who had arrived the previous month.

      Nate started selling newspapers (Calgary News Telegram, The Calgary Herald, The Eye Opener) and saved every penny to support the family. In two years he had saved enough to allow the farm family to replace their sod hut with a log house and build a well and windmill.

      In 1914 Nate moved to the farm and the family prospered. In the mid-1920's he moved to Calgary where he operated Imperial Clothing on 8th Avenue E.

      In 1923 Nate Horodezky married Lily Switzer, who had come to Canada about 1922. Nate and Lily had one daughter, Bertha, married to Abe Gold. Nate died in 1986, Lily in 1990.

      Abraham Horwitz was born in Riga, Latvia, in October, 1887. The family name was Schuman and Abraham was one of eight children, four brothers and four sisters. The family emigrated to the United States with the name on their passports as Horwitz.

      They first lived in Michigan where the children were educated; Abraham was valedictorian of his high school graduating class.