I was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, on June 16, 1905. I have one sister who is now ninety-two years old and living in Kamloops. My mother, a nice lady, died when I was four years old. My father took us to stay often with aunts...
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Nina Borisenko
My husband Alexander and I left Belgium with our daughter and two sons and arrived in Canada in May of 1951. Like so many others, we had originally come from Eastern Europe and were hoping for a better life. A friend who had...
Bohnsack Family
We arrived in Canmore on October 18, 1961, although my father had been in Canmore since early April of the same year. My father, Frank, or actually Franz Bohnsack, was born in Burg on the island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea...
Barbara Biri (Yetman)
I came to the valley in July of 1985 from Youngstown, Alberta. I followed my husband here who was working as a prep cook at Giorgio’s. I had come west in 1971 from Nova Scotia. I still love fish. It was common food in our...
Dorothy Biggy
I came to Alberta in 1949, at age eleven, with my family, Roy and Edith Ritchie, one sister Joyce, and three brothers, Gerald, Bev and Ken. We lived out on a farm in Millarville for two years, then moved to Canmore in 1951. My...
Grace Bibby
Born in 1922, I was the fifth daughter in a family of nine children, born and raised in the Ramsay and Inglewood districts of Calgary. My father was a freight train conductor and almost all of the neighbourhood families were...
Bestwick Family
Joe Bestwick immigrated to Canmore in 1919. He obtained work at the Canmore Coal Company as a miner. One year after working for the mine, Joe was reunited with his wife, Elizabeth, and daughter, Mary. Three years later they had a...
Kathleen Belenky
I was born in Canmore Hospital, the old hospital on the hospital/store hill. My parents were John and Pauline Cavanaugh. Dad had come from Scotland when he was about twenty because he had an aunt and uncle here, Annie and Charlie...
Ruth Beaudreau
Ruth Beaudreau (nee Godley), of English and Irish descent, was born in Vancouver and grew up there. As a young girl, Ruth enjoyed playing the piano and took lessons for many years. She worked as a comptometer operator until that...
Don Barry
Susan and I came to Canmore from Edmonton, first as visitors, and only secondly as prospective retirees. In the mid-eighties we were whitewater kayaking enthusiasts and had been told that to get the very best instruction we...