Photo taken 1941, 2 years after 2 sisters came to Vancouver for a better life. They were born in a one room wooden shack, on a farm 7 miles outside Rocky Mountain House, AB. Their parents immigrated from Finland about 1910. The woman on the left is my mothter Helen Elma (nee) Kojola (AKA Elma Pakka). She was 19 in the picture; her sister, Aino Kojola (AKA Ina Sawchuk) 26.
Note: The back of the photo is stamped: 512 W. Hastings St., Vancouver.
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Decade Taken
1940's
Year Taken
1941
Categories
Day, Women
Diane Fruttarol
My mother, on the left, married Mike Omelance (AKA Michal Omelaniec) in Vancouver January 8, 1944. They had 3 children in the 50’s: Diane, Cheryl & Janice.
Lorne Hyvonen
Diane could you please email me, I think we have some of the same relatives. I am just starting on the genealogy of my family. Thanks