I was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the eldest of three children. When I was two, we moved to Arvida, Quebec, where my sister was born. My dad was a hardware man all his life and his company transferred the family back to Strathroy...
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Ida Maria Niemi
Ida Maria Niemi was born in Alavus, Finland, on November 13, 1899. There are not too many people left today who can say that they were born in the 1800’s. Ida had two sisters, also born in Finland; Lydia, born in 1901, and...
August (Isoniemi) Niemi
August Niemi was born in Alajarvi, Vasa, Finland on June 14, 1900. He came to Canada in December, 1923, and got a job with the Canmore Mines. There were many Finlanders in Canmore in the early 1900’s. There was even a...
Evelyn Mueller
I, Evelyn Mueller (nee Knorr), one of nine children, was born in High River, December 17, 1923. The oldest is brother Herman, then Lilian, Robert (Bob), Raymond, and Margaret and me, the youngest ones were Dick, Jack and Nona. We...
The Meanderthals
On April 26th, 1993, Pamela Grigg called a meeting of a group of her hiking friends and acquaintances who were members of the Canmore Seniors Association, with the purpose of forming a serious hiking group. The idea was to have...
Daniel McTaggart and Family
Dan McTaggart left Winter, Saskatchewan, in 1949 to work with his father in the Kananaskis Valley. When he arrived in the Kananaskis, the roads were wagon ruts and pavement was a long way off. They worked for Ace Construction in...
McLeod Family
The McLeod family relocated to Canada from the town of Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, Scotland, around 1821. Upon arrival, my great-great-grandfather William, with his wife and two sons, Harold and great-grandfather Roderick (Rory)...
Patricia (Pat) McLaughlin
I was born in 1922 in Bournemouth, England, the middle of three daughters born to George and Ethel Legg. I was always interested in gymnastics and belonged to a church club, equivalent to the present YWCA. I met my husband...
Phyllis (nee Scott) and Austin McGrath
At the urging of my mother, Emily, my grandmother Nellie Pearson left Leyburn, Yorkshire, England, in July, 1926, with her six children, ranging in age from eighteen years down to two years. She had been widowed the year...
William (Bill) McCaffrey
I was born in Montreal, Quebec, on January 6, 1925. I had four sisters and four brothers. My mother was French-Canadian and my father was of Irish descent. From this large family, only one sister is alive. My mother was a very...