To America through Canada
Family legend had it that my Grandfather, Bazyli Wynohradnyk, was a cook in a logging camp in the Great White North of Canada. When I received the information from the Department of Homeland Security ( in a previous post) it indicated that my Grandfather had indeed emigrated to the U.S. through Canada.
After long searching on Ancestry.com I was finally able to find the record of his crossing in November of 1911. Why it took me so long to find was, of course, the spelling of his name. Anyway, here’s the record ( he’s listed on line 3):
March 12, 2009 at 2:28 pm
[...] they arrived in the states. I reported my Grandfather William arriving by train in an earlier post. My Grandmother is listed on the 1920 census as having arrived in 1911. Here is the record that I [...]
June 28, 2009 at 5:58 pm
[...] a previous post I said that my Grandfather came to the US from Canada in 1911. This is true, but only a partial [...]