Russ, Vasile and Sofia

Family historyRecordsPhotoFamily history Vasile Russ was born in Boian Bukovina in 1878. In 1898 he married Sophia Holowity and in 1911 they emigrated to Canada, a distant unknown land, with their first born son, Tom. Like all newcomers when they arrived they lived in a hurriedly constructed sod house (bordei) on a homestead in the Soda…