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Evseef Raisa Petrovna 1910-2000

05.09. 1910 – 2000, Fraser View Cemetery

Raisa was born in Siberia Russia on the 5 September 1910 to Russian Parents.

Raisa’s father was known as Peter the merchant. The family owned a dairy store. I don’t remember her mothers name but I do know she was known as a lady and a wonderful hostess

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Chaikowsky Faina 1910-2000

1910 Harbin – 2000 By the Family

Faina was one of 5 siblings born to Jacob and Ustinia Fetissoff in Harbin in 1910. Her mother was a homemaker. Her father held a good position with the railroad and the family lived fairly well for a number of years. Later on, when the communists invaded the

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Bilokury Pavla Mihailovna 1908-2000

1908 Russia, Balokovo – 22 August 2000 in Peace Arch Hospital

Pavla Mihailovna Bilokury was born in Russia in 1908 on the estate of her parents situated in a scenic area of the river Volga between Balokovo and Saratov. Their enterprise and hard work created wealth and well being the family. All this continued until

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Archbishop Sylvester

1914 – 2000. Memory Eternal!

Archbishop SYLVESTER (Haruns), retired ruling hierarch of the OCA Archdiocese of Canada, former temporary administrator of the Orthodox Church in America and Vice-Chairman of the Holy Synod, fell asleep in the Lord quietly at 2:00 a.m. on May 18, 2000, at the age of eighty-five. He had received Holy Communion

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Pylypchuk Maria

Мария Пилипчук (1900-1998)

Апостол Павел сказал: «Итак, смотрите внимательно, как вы ходите, не как немудрые, но как мудрые, дорожа временем» (Ефес.5:15-16). Усопшая прихожанка нашей церкви Мария Пилипчук следовала указанию апостола всю свою жизнь.

Она родилась 27 октября 1900 г. в п. Мандэйр в Альберте, в семье переселенцев из Галиции. У родителей её, Андрея и Пелагеи

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Petrov Leonid

ВМЕСТО ВЕНКА

По великой милости Божией я, 93-х летний старик, с великой трудностью нашел силы написать это последнее ПРОЩАЙ дорогому как родственнику-другу Леониду Георгиевичу Петрову. Он, родившись в г. Харбине, Китай, а не в России, и не в благословенное царское время, а в междоусобице, Леонид Георгиевич был настоящим русским патриотом и глубоковерующим православным христианином.

Когда

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Nahorny Timofey Ivanovich 1897-1979

by N. Tchernousoff

Timofey Ivanovich Nahorny, was born on February 21st, 1897, in the village of Velikoe Verbche in Volynia. He sang in the church choir from an early age and he learned the rubrics under the local choirmaster, in order to prepare himself to be a cantor. In 1915 he was recruited into

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Right Rev. Joasaph

THE RIGHT REVEREND JOASAPH, BISHOP OF EDMONTON 28.12.1897 – 18.10.1978

Bishop Joasaph, in the world – Stephan Antoniuk, was born on December 16 (28), 1897 in the city of Kobrin (Grodno region, currently in Byelorussia). In baptism he was given the name Stephan in honor of the Holy Hierarch Stephan the Confessor, Archbishop of Sourozh.

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Balakshin Andrew Alexander 1874-1956

ANDREW ALEXANDER BALAKSHIN

The Balakshin family ancestors were brave men and women from Northern Russia who ventured across the Ural Mountains to the vast spaces of Siberia, in search of adventure and freedom from oppression. There were no landlords in Siberia and no serfdom, and this helped shape living standards for the hardy race

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