Eddie Cohen Family
Eddie Cohen was 14 when he arrived with his family. (Please see the Shmuel Cohen Family below.)
To supplement the family income, Eddie left school after only one year. In that year, however, he completed eight grades.
He then went to work selling newspapers on the Bank of Commerce corner at Centre Street and 8th Avenue. When he got his pay, it went to his mother. He also helped deliver meat by wagon for his father Shmuel Cohen’s kosher meat business.
Hard-working Eddie went on to start the Reliable Clothing Store, a respected Calgary business, eventually located on 8th Avenue near Centre Street.
In 1920 Eddie married Mary Karsh. Before their marriage, Mary was a stenographer at the CPR telegraph office, located on 9th Avenue where the CPR train station is today. The children of Mary and Eddie Cohen are Arnold Cohen and Doreen Abugov.