Some info
from Archiva.net
Rabbi Marcus Berner,
b- Apr 15, 1868 in Lithuania
d- June 22, 1941 in Victoria BC, age 63
Married Annie Koslofsky, bet July-Sept 1890
marriage registered in Mile End, Old Town London,
before coming to Canada
b- ca 1871 in Russia (Lithuania?)
d- before 1906
May 7, 1899
Marcus and his family arrived in Canada
on SS Californian, at Quebec City, from Liverpool England.
Marcus and his wife Annie, both shown born in Russia
Marcus age 31,
wife shown only as Mrs Berner, age 28,
son Barnet Berner age 8,
daughter age 4, name unreadable, Crassie?
son Isaac, age 2
infant son Israel, 1 mo
all children born in England
Marcus shown as a farmer,
all destined for Yorkton, Assiniboia
Became a Naturalized Canadian Citizen 1902
He eventually became the Rabbi of
Temple Emanuel in Victoria BC,
the oldest Jewish Congregation west of Toronto.
As a young man he went to England,
served as a Jewish Minister, to an Orthodox congregation.
His ambition was to be a farmer and own his own land.
and went to Canada May 7, 1899.
Marcus, his wife, and children,
took up a homestead of 160 acres in 1899,
built a home, and broke the land,
Near Hirsch NWT, which became Saskatchewan in 1905.
He ended up owning 913 acres.
Became Chairman of one of
the First Rural School Boards in SK.
He was Chairman of the Hirsch Public School Board,
when they engaged James G.
Gardiner,
who became Premier of Saskatchewan,
and Minister of Agriculture for the Dominion
as the Teacher in Hirsch School.
Marcus was the First Mohel
(circumciser),
The First Shochet, (performs the ritual slaughter)
and the First to perform Jewish Weddings in Saskatchewan.
He
lived on his farm for 32 years,
His first wife died before 1906,
I believe Dec 21, 1904 in Brandon MB, age 32
and he remarried a Yetta Berner after 1911.
In 1906 the neighbour was 2 Koslofsky family members, Joe and Mor.
I found a Marcus Berner
married Genka Yamrom Mar 17, 1914 in Winnipeg.
In 1931 he
accepted the call from Victoria.
Drought at the time, forced him off the farm,
and he was to return in a year or two,
when the weather changed,
but instead he stayed in Victoria.
he also had a battle with some other Jewish
groups in the area, which didn't help.
Father- Boruch Berner
Western Land Grants
SW and SE Sec 10, Tsp 3, Range 5, W2
children- ca 1941 when he
died.
2 Daughters:
Janie Sophia Berner
b- Sept 1893 Reg in Whitechapel, London, England
Mrs. I. Brounstein, Smeaton SK.
Eva Berner
b- ca 1899 in England
d- July 1955 in Hospital, in Regina, age 56, after a long illness.
Buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Regina.
1920 married Charles Mandel,
they were living in Regina SK, 1941
see my
Elias (Eli) Wolf Mandel Estevan Page
5 sons:
Benjamin "Ben" Berner- Carlyle SK
b- Mar 15, 1892 in London, England
d- Aug 10, 1970, age 75, in Vancouver BC
Enlisted in WWI, May 6, 1918, in Regina
Reg # 2684212, Rank= Corporal, Canadian Calvary
member of the RNWMP, address Regina SK.
Stockman and Farmer. not married
Next of kin, father Marcus in Hirsch
1931 Ben Berner and another fellow leased the hotel
at Carlyle lake. 1943 he sold it to the town of Carlyle.
Meyer Berner, Vancouver BC
b- Jan 11, 1901, Sec 10, Tsp 3, Rge 5, W2, NWT
headstone says 1902, birth reg says 1901
d- June 16, 1989 in LA, CA,
buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
note- I think this guy and William below are the same guy
Henry Gudah Berner, Winnipeg MB
b- Dec 2, 1904, Sec 10, Tsp 3, Rge 5, W2, NWT
d-
Alex Berner, with the British Army in Palestine 1941
b- ?
d- ?
Returned to Canada in 1946, and was living in Toronto.
He was a Captain in the British army
stationed in the middle east in WWII.
Director of the Jewish National Fund,
1955 in San Francisco area.
In 1957 I think he was in LA, CA, USA.
Major Isaac Elkin (Elkanah?)
Berner
with the Atlantic command Halifax.
b- Mar 27, 1896, Reg in Whitechapel, London, England
d- Feb 8, 1991, age 94
enlisted in WWI, Mar 1917 in Estevan SK
Living in Hirsch at the time.
Reg # LC 460285
next of kin, Marcus his father.
June 4, 1936 he married Zelda Freedman.
b- ?
d- Aug 30, 1970, age 57, in Vancouver BC
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Freedman.
at home of his bride's sister,
Mr. and Mrs. George Hornstein, at Bengough.
Isaac was at Kelliher at the time.
Israel Berner
b- Mar 1899, Reg in Whitechapel, London, England
d- ca 1919, age 20, buried in Hirsch Cemetery
Barnett Berner
b- Mar 1892, Reg in Whitechapel Dist., London
d- ?
William Berner (see Meyer above)
b- ?
d- ?
shown as a brother to Eva,
living in San Francisco in 1955 when Eva died.
*Fred Billington family info recorded on the Hirsch elevator page
Sept 27, 1928 4 armed bandits robbed the Post office
in Hirsch after robbing the PO in Steelman.
They stole $1,000.00 and fired 2 shots at Post Master John? Billington
per article in newspaper at the time.
The armed bandits were in a large automobile.
