Myer Switzer and Chaiya Geldman had five children;all lived in Calgary. They were Rebecca Switzer(Morris Mendelman), Lily Switzer (Jack Fishman), Jessie Switzer(Abe Sanofsky), Dinah Switzer (Harry Shore), and Sam Switzer(Anita Newman, Betty Casat). Myer and Chaiya came to Calgary in 1920;Chaiya died in 1962, Myer in 1964.

      The youngest daughter, Noma Switzer, married Hershel Farber and remained in Poland. Three of their nine children, Phishel, Moishe and Avrum Farber, survived World War II. The remaining Farbers live in the USA.

      Youngest son Gershon Switzer came to Calgary with his wife Chana Huftarczyk in 1920. Their children were Ester Switzer (David Klaiman), Charlotte Switzer (Michael Halas), Max Switzer (Rita Kutchinsky), Rosa Kessel, Dinah Switzer (Alexander Sim), Bennie Switzer (Doris Moran), Philip Switzer (Alice Collett) and Mary Switzer (Edward Lukeman).

      Gershon Switzer died in 1969, Chana in 1991. All their children sur- vive and four still live in Calgary.

      In summary, Wolf Baer Switzer had eleven children; 72 grandchildren survived infancy. Seven sons and daughters and 53 grandchildren came to Calgary between 1910 and 1948. Many brought with them from Poland their husbands and wives, and a host of in-laws, neighbors and family friends.

      The Switzer family has dispersed all over Canada, to the USA, to Israel, and other places. The greatest number, however, remain in Calgary, to carry on the community-building their forebears began.

      Charles Waterman (b.1879) arrived in Canada in 1901, having escaped the pogroms in the Suceva province of Austria/Hungary. He homesteaded in Trochu from 1904 - 1921.

      In 1912 he married Ethel Guttman, the daughter of a neighbouring Jewish homestead family.

      He drove his children to Cloverleaf School in a horse and buggy. He eventually decided to move to Calgary so that his children could have a better education.

      During the First World War, Charles Waterman sent financial aid to a Friedman family in Germany. In gratitude, they later send him a gift of high quality scissors and knives - which sparked a business idea. Mr. Waterman took these to Birks and Ashdowns to see if they had an interest -and they did. Thus the Waterman importing business began.

      Max Katzin joined Charles in 1926, and eventually they opened a ware- house at 1st Street S.E. and 10th Avenue. Out of this grew Western Canada Importers. When Charles' son David Waterman returned from the service after WW II, he took over his father's route -selling "on the road."

      Charles Waterman was always an ardent Zionist. In the late 1920's, for example, he attended a Zionist Conference in Switzerland. But his primary interest was Jewish education. He was instrumental in fund-raising for the Calgary Hebrew School and for decades was intimately involved in all its facets. At Chanukah, each pupil would receive a gift or "gelt"from him.

      To honour him, the school was renamed the Charles Waterman Talmud Torah.

      He also worked with Ted Riback and others for the developement and completion of the Jewish Community Centre on 18th Avenue and Centre Street S.

      At the age of 80, Mr. Waterman began an "ulpan"(Hebrew lessons) at the Talmad Torah. Wherever he went, he took his "dikdook"(grammar book) and studied. He learned the language when he was over 80. He vis- ited Israel almost annually in his senior years.

      Charles and Ethel Waterman had four children - Freda(Levy), Lillian (Fishman), David Waterman and Phyllis (Rubin).

      Ethel Waterman (b.1886) passed away in 1959. Charles Waterman died in 1970. Her gravestone reads "A beautiful woman and dedicated to her children."His states, in Hebrew:"A kindhearted mand of dear spirit."

      Jacob Woolfe, who arrived in Calgary in 1905 from England, had wide- ranging skills

      As a builder and cabinet maker, Jacob played a key role in the con- struction of the Beth Jacob Synagogue in 1911.

      As a gunsmith, he opened a small but respected gun shop, where he built and repaired firearms for the Royal North West Mounted Police.

      Harry Woolfe, his son, met many of the RNWMP members at his father's shop, and in 1916 Harry travelled to Regina to join the Force. He is believed to have been the first Jewish "Mountie."Later active in the film distribution business, Harry Woolfe was the oldest surviving RNWMP veteran at the time of his death in Vancouver in 1994.

      He was married to vivacious nonagenarian Debbie (nee Marks) a daughter of Calgary Jewish pioneers Isaac and Leah Marks.

      Other Woolfe children are Florrie (Brown), Aaron (in Miami), Fran and Louis.

      Israel and Hattie Ziselman left Borisov, Belarus, in 1902 with their infant daughter Leah (Lil), sisters Rose and Bela, and a "servant."

      The Ziselman family first settled in Guelph, Ontario, but soon sought better opportunities in Western Canada. They arrived in Calgary in 1908, but spent several years in Hosmer, B.C. and then a year in Toronto and Montreal before returning to Calgary to settle permanently in 1917.

      During his years in Calgary, Israel Ziselman worked as a jeweller, cloth- ier, and owner of the Olde Curiosity Shop at 813 - First Street E.

      Israel and Hattie were parents of three daughters: Lil, who married Abe Groberman, Bertha (Greene) of Seattle, and Sally. They had three grand- sons - Larry Greene, and Lionel and Herb Groberman.

      Hattie passed away in Calgary in 1954 at the age of 75;Israel died in 1962 as the ripe old age of 92.

      The Glenbow Museum in Calgary recently displayed Israel Ziselman's tallis and tefillen as part of their "Heritage from the Homeland" immi- gant artifacts display.