We regret to advise of the death of Corporal Kurt Seidl (Ret'd) on 24 January 2001.
Even though Kurt was a recent immigrant to Canada, he was a veteran of the Second War World War. Kurt's family was of Sudeten German origin. They left their native part of Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1939 after their land had been handed over to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in October 1938. After a short stay in England in a refugee camp, the family was processed and sent to Canada. They eventually settled in the Peace River Country of Northern British Columbia on a quarter-section in the area of Tomslake. Kurt enlisted in the Royal Canadian Engineers in November 1944 and served in Calgary until July 1946.
On being discharged he returned home to Tomslake and took a job working for Northern Alberta Railways in Dawson Creek in the Round House. He worked there for several years before giving the job up and becoming a full-time farmer. On being discharged he returned home to Tomslake, The farm eventually passed to his son Art and moved Peace Haven. In 2000, he moved to live with his daughter in Calgary.
