The Strauss family came to Canmore in the late 1920’s. My grandfather, William Andrew Strauss, had a job mining coal in the mine. He moved his family to Canmore. First my two aunts came in 1930, and then my dad and uncle...
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John and Elizabeth Stec
My father arrived in the United States in 1917 from Radowitz, Poland. He left behind his father and sister. His mother had died at a young age. Dad must have worked in the United States before coming to Canada. He found...
Gwendoline Graham Spencer
I was born in Liverpool, England, on February 12, 1932, the eldest of three children. A sister was born in 1934 and brother in April, 1937. My growing years were spent in Liverpool, at that time a thriving port. Ships...
Ozzie Spagis
Ozzie was born in Russia in 1935 to Latvian parents, Zelma and Peter Spagis, and came to Canada in 1950. He settled for a time in the Lethbridge area, working on a sugar beet farm. He later moved to Canmore and worked for the C.P...
Elaine Spagis (nee Klimek)
Elaine was born at home in Canmore in 1937 to Martin and Rose Klimek. She attended school in Canmore and skated and curled in the old Canmore rinks. In 1954, she married Ozzie Spagis. She worked for a time at the Canmore Lumber...
Iris Southwood (nee Wilson)
When I was around ten, our family lived in a small two bedroom clapboard shack in the Prospect area. We were sent to bed early, still light outside. Just before dark, there was a terrible crash outside (as we found out later a...
Boyd Marvin (Ace) Southwood
Grandfather Southwood, born in Plymouth, England, in 1855, moved to Ohio and met Elizabeth Faultner from Bedford, Ohio. They married in 1879 in Cleveland, Ohio and had three children. They then moved to Montana by wagon, where...
Mary M. and Robert N. Smith
Although I was born in Winnipeg, my family brought me to Alberta when I was six weeks old. We lived on a ranch at Edgerton, near Wainwright, until I was five. Then we moved to Olds where my dad, F.F. Parkinson, joined the staff...
Pat and Hilda Slavin
Our arrival in Canmore in December, 1993, fulfilled a need to wonder at the beauty of these Rocky Mountains and to once more enjoy what we call a real winter. Pat and I were born in Montreal and spent most of our years there...
Bill and Jean Slaght
Bill Slaght was born and raised in small-town southern Ontario and from an early age, was involved in a variety of competitive sports. Restless at seventeen, he quit school, lied about his age, and enlisted in the Royal Canadian...