Jüri Kraav

Jüri Kraav at the AEHS dinner following the 2006 AGM at the Red Deer Lodge in Red Deer, Alberta in 2006. Jüri Kraav and his wife Helle arrived in Calgary in the summer of 1996 and became interested in Alberta's Estonian pioneers during the 1999 Estonian Canadian Centennial celebrations at Linda Hall. He has been a member of the Alberta Estonian Heritage Society from its inception. Juri was born in Estonia and left in September, 1944. He arrived in Canada in 1951 and met and married Helle in Toronto. They moved to Montreal in 1970 and Jüri work there as an engineer for 40 years. The Kraavs are now enjoying retirement in Calgary.

Alberta's Estonian Heritage