Morris Groberman came to Calgary in 1906, he headed many Jewish organizations and led the drive to start construction of the House of Isreal building in 1930. His brothers Charles, Abe and Barnet, and ister Edith Jacques, also lived in Clagary; all were in the furniture business.

They were from Radom, Poland. Avrum came to Canada in 1919 under "Meema" Singer's auspices. He worked on the Horodezky farm at Rumsey for a year in order to bring Hinda and baby Fanny to Clagary in 1920. They moved to the Riverside area of Calgary, where most of the recent immigrants settled, and Avrum worked at the City Hall Market. In time he opened a second-hand furniture store on 8th Avenue and eventually established significant real estate holdings. The other four Belzberg children, Lil (Lily), Hyman (Hy), Samuel (Koimy) and Bill, were all born in Calgary.