Paul grew up in Minnesota, Jean in Texas. We first met in the Geology Department at the University of Texas in the early 1940’s before Paul started bouncing around the oil fields from Texas to Venezuela, to Wyoming, to...
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Catherine Greig
My parents, Sam and Margaret Cook, emigrated from Missouri in 1910, with their two sons. They settled on a homestead near Torrington, Alberta, where I was born in 1913 and a younger brother in 1920. I attended the local school...
Peter Greenway
Born in Montreal, Quebec, in March 1927, I was the youngest of a family of four children. My father was vice-president of Fry Cadbury (the chocolate company). We moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, when I was four years old. My father...
John and Beulah Greenhough
Several times in the course of his seventy-eight years, John Greenhough encountered dangerous situations and defied the odds. A survivor when his ship was torpedoed during the Second World War, he went on to face down two severe...
Ruliff and Katharine Grass
Ruliff Grass, born in Toronto in 1921, moved to Canmore in 1986. His history, both educational and work related, is involved but interesting. He was educated in Toronto and Aurora, Ontario, then University of Toronto in...
Raymond and Sylvia Goeres
Ray Goeres was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1921, son of a Flemish (Luxembourg) father and an Irish mother. He spent the 20’s and 30’s in Stranraer, Saskatchewan and in Manitoba. In 1940 Ray arrived in Calgary...
Jean Finley
I first came to Canmore as the gateway to Assiniboine. To get up there in 1970, we would figure out whose car was the oldest since the Spray Road was terrible. The sign read “Travel at Your Own Risk” and car insurance...
Vera Fawkes
I was born in Vernon, British Columbia, and while I was still an infant, my father was transferred to Vancouver, B.C. I completed my high school education and obtained a teaching degree. My father died when I was in elementary...
Jack Fawkes
My maternal grandfather, Peter Smitton, arrived in Namaka from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1906 and bought land in the Conrich area. After three years of fighting hail and frost, he left the farm and moved to Namaka to work for his old...
Maureen Fair
The old Banff Mineral Springs Hospital was the place of my birth in June, 1928. At the same time, Kate Smith, with a singing engagement at the Banff Springs Hotel, was hospitalized with a bite from a bear she had been feeding...