The Mergl family A family with strong ties

By Emma Mergl

Franz Mergl was born into an Austrian family on August 26, 1903 in the town of Mòr in Hungary, the same town where his wife Teresa Gintner was born on October 13, 1910. They married, immigrated to Montreal on August 30, 1930 and settled in the Montreal region and Teresa gave birth to their eldest son Frank on May 8, 1932. In the 1950s, Franz discovered SaintLazare and was immediately charmed by the small town which was full of agricultural land and forests and went on to acquire the land located at 1431 chemin de la Cité-des-Jeunes.

His son, Frank Mergl met his wife, Elizabeth Varga, also from Hungarian immigrant parents, in the spring of 1950. It was love at first sight and above all, the beginning of a beautiful and great story. Frank and Elizabeth were married on January 17, 1953 in Montreal. They moved to Somerset Street in Ville Saint-Laurent where they raised their six children: Linda (1954), Gordon (1956), Ronald (1958), Deborah (1960), Jeffrey (1965) and Richard (1967).