My parents were born to immigrant families who came to Canada from western UkraineUkraine before World War I to be pioneer farmers in the Canadian prairies. Mom and Dad met in Saskatoon, SaskatchewanSaskatoonSaskatchewan when studying to be teachers. After they spent several years teaching in one-room schools in rural Saskatchewan, my father studied agriculture during the 1930s. During World War II, he served as a recruitment officer in western Canada for the Canadian ArmyCanadian Army. After the war, when my sister HelenStephen Mysak and Anastasia (Nettie) Mysak (parents), sister Helen Mysak and I were 14 and 6, we settled in EdmontonEdmonton, Alberta, Alberta where there was a large Ukrainian community. Dad was at first employed by Agriculture Canada there, but he switched to selling insurance and real estate before rounding out his career as a high school business teacher. Mom returned to teaching when I was in high school. Mom and Dad remained in Edmonton after retirement in 1972. After my mother’s death in 1978, Dad moved to VancouverVancouver, BC, British Columbia to be near Helen and me; he died there in 2007, at the age of 100.