John Thomas Fraser had adventurous parents. His father, Peter, was born in the Shetland Islands, but left at age fourteen to work on freighters around the world. Eventually, he settled on a farm in Washington State near Silcott...
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Lorraine Fraser
Seventeen years after the Ralph Connor Memorial United Church was built in 1890, my mother’s mother, Camellia Besso and her brother Adolph, themselves children of a Protestant (Waldesian) minister in Italy, arrived in...
Bini Fuhrmann
I moved to Banff in 1952 from Kelowna, B.C. I started working in the Banff Springs Hotel as a chambermaid. At this time, positions here were frequently under contract, and one was expected to stay for a certain duration. However...
Gertrude Galbraith
Some Significant Memories Red was an old sorrel that stumbled, uphill and downhill! Riding to town school was necessary to get a high school matriculation so I persisted, even after three years of spasmodic absenteeism: 1928...
Allan and Grace Geals
Written by Grace Geals I was born in Albury, N.S.W., Australia, in 1933 and had two older sisters. Our grandfather Cameron’s family were pioneers of Quan, South Australia. My mother died when I was only eighteen- months...
Allen and Phyllis Gerlitz
We began a business in Banff in 1966 and started the long search for a suitable place to build our ‘Dream Home’. We finally decided on a big corner lot and a half on the “Old Golf Course” in Canmore. The price...
Martha Godlonton
Biography written by Suzanne Toal It was love at first sight. When twice-widowed Martha McQueen (now Martha Godlonton) arrived in Banff from her native Scotland in July, 1973, to stay with relatives and begin a working holiday...
Lena Shellian
“I was born at home in Canmore on September 17th. At this time the doctor, Dr. Worthington, used to make housecalls. He delivered me at home. I was the youngest of four children born to John and Elizabeth Stec: John, Mary...
Mervyn & Yvonne Seow
We, with our three children, arrived in Canmore in April of 1973. Merv had obtained a job at the Banff Centre. Prior to that we were in B.C. for about three years on the Hope Princeton Highway at Manning Park. Our home before...
Mary and Doug Campbell
“We were raised in the metropolis of London, England, among eight million citizens. Jumping country in 1957 brought us to a booming Toronto of two million, thence to Vancouver with its million citizens. The downward trend...