Tuesday marks 25 years since one of the deadliest tornados in Canadian history tore through east Edmonton killing 27 people and injuring 300 others.

For the children who survived that day the tornado defined much of who they are even 25 years later.

Angela Merriot recently returned to the Evergreen Mobile Home Park for the first time since the day known as Black Friday.

Merriot, just eight years old when the tornado hit, said the tornado is her earliest memory. It contributed to her parents divorce and changed how she looks at life, she said.

Not far away, Tyler Chrisp was only two months old when the tornado sucked him and his mother out of their Evergreen trailer.

He was discovered in a nearby yard close to death, though surviving with a spinal injury that left him in a wheelchair.

Across the city Nada Zrimsmentek recalled watching the tornado with her son on hands and knees in her Mill Woods home.