Sam Segall Family
Originally from Russia, Sam Segall and his brother Adolph immigrated in 1911 to Bruderheim, Alberta, from Schenectady, New York.
Their first prairie winter was severe, and the brothers became lost in a blizzard while driving a horse and carriage back to their homestead.
Sam was snow-blinded. He moved to Calgary, while Adolf went to Great Falls, Montana. In Calgary, Sam Segall stayed with Jack and Esther Wise.
On January 1,1918, Sam Segall and Bertha Hart married. Bertha Hart Segall was born in Romania about 1894. In 1906, at age 12, she came to Canada with her widowed father Moses Hart and her older sister Sarah (Bercuson)
For eight years, from 1912 to 1920, Bertha was secretary to Bob Edwards, publisher and editor of the Calgary Eye Opener. She wrote a definitive first-hand account of those years with the famous satirical newspaper- man.
Later, in the 1930’s, Bertha worked for her brother Jack Hart in his ladies’ ready-to-wear store, Famous Cloak.
The marriage of Bertha and Sam brought them two sons, Gordon Segall and Harold Segall.
