Category Archives: Work

First Computer Experience

by | 2021-04-12

I started programming Christmas vacation 1968. This was during my first year at McGill University, studying Physics. My cousin Ken was also at McGill, in engineering. At a Christmas get together, he told me there was a computer that students could use in engineering building. He offered to show me the ropes, and we met… Read more »

Grandparents – Fred and Rose Ostapovitch

by | 2021-03-14

This is an extract from “Theodore and District History”, (c) Theodore Historical Society, published in 1987. OSTAPOVITCH, Fred and Rose Dad, the son of Peter and Aksana, and Mother, the daughter of Martsia Kitzul, both emigrated from Bukowina, Austria with their respective families and settled in the present Theodore district. They met some time later… Read more »