Darrel Brian Heath was born in the Meadowbrook district on September 25, 1924, the youngest child of John and Ellen Heath. In the late 1920’s he moved to Canmore with his family and took his schooling here. His mother died...
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Daisy Alberta Heath (Kaleta)
My maiden name was Daisy Alberta Heath. I was the tenth child of Arthur John and Ellen Heath. I was born in the Lacombe District of Meadowbrook. We lived there until the early spring of 1927. When I was not yet five years old, we...
Beatrice (Fobes Cadieux) Heath
Beatrice was born January 19, 1918, in Meadowbrook. Her two earliest memories are of George getting shot in the leg while hunting and how, every Sunday, many friends of the Heath children would come – all arriving by...
Arthur John (Jack) Jr.
Jack was born on the family farm in the Meadowbrook District of Central Alberta. We believe he came into the world on January 4, 1909. However, he may have been a year earlier, on the same day in 1908. No one is quite sure. It...
Arthur John (Jack) Heath Sr.
Jack complicated the Heath family tree tremendously by marrying Ellen Henesay. Ellen was the daughter of Benjamin’s second wife, Sarah, and so technically, though not blood-related, she was Jack’s step-sister. When...
John Franklin (Frank) and Dolores Evelyn (Dolly) Harris
Frank was born in Calgary, February 4, 1922. Frank’s parents had lived on ranches south of Calgary. Dolly was born in Medicine Hat, Feb. 25, 1930. Dolly’s mother was born in Wales and her father was from North Dakota...
Gerald and Alison Hankins
Although Gerald and I have only lived in Canmore about five years, my first contact with Canmore was at Easter, 1943, when I came with a group of Calgary Youth Hostellers and stayed five days at the Canmore Youth Hostel. The...
Jack and Maimie Gustason
Herman Gustason arrived in Canmore from Finland in 1900 to work for the Canmore Coal Company. His wife, Alexandra, followed him a year later. Their first home was located between the Mine and the road, and was built on supporting...
Tim and Sharon Guiler
We first came to the Bow Valley in 1990. We were living in Edmonton at the time and Tim liked to ski so we used to come down here and stay in hotels. We got tired of yet another lumpy hotel bed in Banff so we decided to look...
Pamela Grigg
Pamela was born, reared and educated in England. On leaving school in 1942, she nursed in an orthopaedic hospital with the intention of becoming a physiotherapist. Allergies to the wool blankets of those days necessitated a...