Alternate name(s):
Edo; Ilic; Ivan; Edward; Jardish; Yardas
Date of birth:
Wednesday, 30 January 1901
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Croatian
Profession:
journalist for the Croatian-language Communist Party of Canada newspaper Borba; accountant; mayor or Rijeka, Croatia from 1952-55; president of the regional council of Rijeka, Croatiafrom 1955-58
Hometown(s):
Toronto, Ontario; Zamet, Rijeka, Croatia
Date of immigration to Canada:
Saturday, 15 May 1926
Education:
Attended a gymnasium and later a a commercial school in Celje i Slovenia, where he learned the trade of accountant
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1929
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-03-10 sailed
1937-04-14 arrived
Unit:
Dimitrov Battalion, Machine Gun Company, Commander, promoted to Lieutenant 4 July 1937; Transferred 13 July 1937 to the Lincoln-Washington Battalion, Company 3, Company Commander
Final status:
WIA 5 May 1937 at Jarama; WIA 20 July 1937: lost a leg, hospitalized in Murcia; Survived; Returned to France in July 1938, and to Canada in August 1938; Served on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada from 1942-1943; Mackenzie Papineau Veterans Association (Toronto); Returned to Yugoslavia in 1948; Died in Rijeka, Yugoslavia on 26 July 1980
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 554, ll. 20-22; Hoar; Kraljic; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Hoff; Obituary in Matica iseljenika Hrvatske, vol. 30(1980), no. 7-8, p. 39; Edo Jardas Fonds, Arhiv grada Rijeke, HR-DARI-398, box 1, file "Molba za spomenicu i autobiografija Ede Jardasa"
