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Frank Yurik was born in Czechoslovakia on October 7, 1892, to parents Joannes and Maria Yurik. Frank's parents died when he and his brother, Ignace, were young; his father died in a snow slide in Rogers Pass, BC, and his mother, looking after the two young boys, died in Slovakia of a broken heart. Frank's uncle Peter Yurik sponsored the two young boys to come to Golden, B.C. in 1910. Peter's wife, Veronica, has a neice in Slovakia she wanted ot come to Canada, so Frank sponsored her becuase he had a steady job with the railway. Sophia came to Canada, and she and Frank were married in 1922. The couple had three children: Mary (b. 1922), John (b. 1924) and Lewis (b. 1928). Frank worked in Sandon, BC (where Lewis was born), for several years, and when the railway there closed in 1940 he was moved to Nakusp. In the spring of 1931 Sophia and the three children settled on a 30 acre farm in Langley that the family bought from Pete Mikustak of Queensborough. The mortgage for the property was held by Mr. William Harris, who owned the farm across the street (Carvolth Road). While Sophia and the children ran the farm, with five or six cows, a large garden, haying and wood cutting, Frank continued working in Sandon and later Nakusp. Although his money paid the mortgage, he was only able to get home to visit the family once a year. The children attended West Langley School and Langley High School. When Frank retired from the railway he did not want to live on the farm, so in 1942 Sophia and the two youngest boys moved to Nakusp. Mary went to St. Paul's Hospital School of Nursing at this time. The Langley farm was rented for a few years until son Lewis took it over in the early 1950s. Frank passed away in 1971, and Sophia in 1981. They are both buried in the Catholic Cemetery in Nakusp.