My parents were from Nova Scotia, of Scottish ancestors. They came to Canmore in the early 1920’s. My dad, Frank Rennie, was the office manager of Canmore Mines Ltd. We lived in a small house near the Horseshoe. We had no...
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Royal Canadian Legion Ladies’ Auxiliary
According to Ottawa records, the Ladies’ Auxiliary, located in Canmore, Alberta, was the very first Ladies’ Auxiliary in Canada to apply for a charter under the Canadian Legion to the British Empire Service League...
John and Isobel Rooks
John grew up and graduated from high school in London, Ontario. Moving to Detroit where he lived with an aunt, he went to university and worked nights at Sherwin Williams Paint Factory. When war broke out, he returned home to...
Benjamin and Annie (Mantle) Rogers
Benjamin Rogers was born July 20, 1899 at Bargoad, Wales, and Annie Esther (Mantle) was born September 15, 1901 at Hencefer, Llangunllo, Wales. They married at Tydfil, South Wales, on January 29, 1926. Ben came to Canada in the...
John and Edel Rock
Hans John (John) and Edeltraut (Edel) arrived in Canada as newlyweds on October 21, 1951. Edel had met the soccer player, John, in November, 1949, in Germany, had married him in 1950, and together they had set sail from Genoa...
David Frederick Robinson
I was born in Gillingham, Kent, England, in 1922, on a street called Toronto Street, and I think that was an omen. When I was two, we moved to Wrexham in Wales where I spent my infant years and started school and was actually...
Walter Riva
Once upon a time, 100 years ago, Gian and Francesca Riva in Ribordone, Italy, packed their belongings, sons John and Joseph (four and one years of age), and emigrated to Canada. Perhaps I should say they emigrated to Canmore...
John Riva and Family
John and Francesca Riva moved to Canmore from Italy when their son, John, was two and a half years old. Three more sons, Joseph, Victor and Michael, and a daughter, Linda, were born in Canada. Linda died young. Miners were...
Irene Randle
I was born in the Mannville Hospital, November 28, 1931, the oldest of seven children, four boys and three girls. My parents were Maxine and Louie Larson. My dad was considered to be the first white baby born in the district...
Margrit Ramil
My story is not an oldtimer’s story but in the time I have spent here – I am in my sixth year – I have collected many memorable memories. I emigrated from Switzerland in 1955, arriving in Montreal with...