In 1923 Sam and Sophie Maerov bought property and opened a store on the northeast corner of 8th Avenue and 5th Street S.W. The Wave Confectionery, with its horseshoe counter and adjoining coffee shop booths, marked the western end of the 8th Avenue business district.

      Sam soon sent funds back to Russia to his brother Zesil, asking that one of his daughters be sent to Canada. Twenty-year-old Clara Maerov (her immigration papers list her as Mayerow and Majerow) was chosen, and came to Calgary in 1923. She lived with Sam, Sophie and the Maerov boys until her marriage in 1931.

      Ben and Morris, the youngest in the family, attended Langevin School and Cresent Heights High School and took violin lessons during that time. As they became more proficient, they began to play in dance bands in various towns around Calgary. Eventually they became members of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, playing at the Palace Theatre and the Jubilee Auditorium.

      The family, meanwhile, had moved to a large house (which still stands) on 5th Avenue near 9th Street SW.

      Rubin Maerov opened a confectionery store at 1008 -1st Street SW. Alec Maerov used the upstairs of the building to operate slot machines, while Louis Maerov became active in the cattle business in Alberta. Louis Maerov died in 1945.

      In 1948 Ruben, Ben and Morris joined their parents' business and soon developed the 8th Avenue site as the Wave Cafe, a familiar downtown landmark for over 40 years. Sophie Maerov passed away in 1951, her hus- band Samuel in 1959.

      Rubin and Elsie (Riback) Maerov had one daughter, Phyllis Switzer. Rubin died in 1971. Louis and Bertha (Kline) Maerov had two sons, Sidney Maerov and Arnold Maerov.

      Alec Maerov (1902-1971) and Fanny (Eisenstat) Maerov had no chil- dren. Ben and Bessie (Bider) had two children, Sheldon Maerov and Cynthia Maerov Prasow. Morris and Pat (Saltman) have two sons, Perry Maerov and Leslie Maerov.

      Cousin Clara Maerov married Leo Lieberman in 1931;they had two sons, Raymond, of Edmonton, and Lucien, of Vancouver.

      Ben Maerov passed away late in 1994 at the age of 84;his twin brother Morris remains in Calgary, and is the only surviving son of Calgary Jewish pioneers Sam and Sophie Maerov.

      Charles Malkin and Toba Gurevitch Malkin came to Calgary in 1906. With them were their two children-Fanny (Nagler), born in 1902, and Albert, born during a pogrom the very night before their departure from Russia.

      Also with them came Toba's parents and Charles'mother. Two Gurevitch brothers were already here, homesteading in Rumsey.

      Charles Malkin opened a grocery store on 8th Avenue near 2nd Street E. This establishment became a meeting place for members of the Jewish community.(His store was sold to make way for the first Safeway store in Calgary in 1930.)

      When there was a Jewish death in Calgary, Charles' mother insisted on traditional burial rites. She herself prepared the bodies;so began Jewish women's involvement in Calgary's Chevra Kadisha.

      Charles Malkin at this time served as Vice President of the Beth Jacob Congregation where he held seat No.2. He also acted as Chevra Kadisha's

President -a post he held for many years. In 1910, when there were one hundred Jewish families in town, the Calgary Hebrew School became associated with the synagogue under Malkin's presidency.

      Daughter Fanny Malkin was the first Jewish teacher in the Calgary Public School system. In 1929, she married Herman Nagler.

      Samuel Martin arrived in Calgary from Romania in 1911. Having been a baker in the old country, he went to work for Dave Rosenthal's father, who had a bakery in Riverside.

      After his marriage in 1914 to Ida Speevak, from Russia, he opened up a Jewish bakery at 415 - 4th Avenue E. -Martin's Bakery.

      Sam and Ida Martin had three sons: Eddie, Norman and Benny. Eddie (the oldest son) worked in the bakery, while Norman and Benny delivered bread by bicycle after school. Until 1930 the family lived above the bak- ery;in that year Sam built a house next door to the bakery for $5,000.00

      All three Martin boys joined the Air Force during WW II. After the war the Martins built a new bakery at 338 - 4th Avenue E., across the street from the original store. A delivery truck helped the business expand after the war years.

      Every Sunday was bagel day and practically the whole Jewish commu- nity would congregate at the bakery to buy bagels and bread. The High Holidays were the busiest times at Martin's as everyone bought chalah for Yontiff. In the 1940's and 50's, bread sold for 10 cents a loaf and bagels for 25 cents a dozen.

      On Sundays Sam Martin's grandsons- Larry, David and Bradley, Norman and Beulah's sons -would come to the bakery and sit on their Zaida's lap and help him make bagels.

      Sam Martin had such a beautiful voice he could have become a Cantor. He did a lot of the cantorial services at the original House of Jacob Synagogue on 5th Avenue E. He was involved with building the Beth Jacob Shul - Calgary's first - and served as Treasurer of the congrega- tion for 40 years.

      Ida Martin passed away in 1963 and the age of 67, Sam Martin passed away in 1977 at age 89.

      Samuel Morton Mozeson was born in the town of Silale, Lithuania, in 1907;his father was a Rabbi, Chaim Nossen Moizes, who soon moved his young family to a Yeshiva in Germany.

      Conditions became difficult there for Jews, so Samuel's mother returned with the boy to Lithuania, where he was raised by her family, surnamed Fischel. Rabbi Moizes was killed in a pogrom some time during this period.

      When Samuel turned seventeen -military service age - he was sent to Canada, to Calgary, where relatives Morris Geffin and family lived.

      He sailed in 1925 to Quebec City on the Empress of Scotland and soon arrived in Calgary, travelling alone and without money. He lived with the Geffins while attending public school, and continued taking night classes after he started working.

      Sam Mozeson soon bought Royal Furniture, later selling it to become a livestock dealer, a common career among Alberta Jewish men at the time.