Nate Horodezky
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.