We wanted to ride in the ole Wild West, To stay in our saddles we’d try our best, So, to McBride’s Ranch by a winding trail With signs so witty our hearts regale. We came to the ranch, what a sight to behold...
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Pearl McBride
I, Pearl Bernice Tingley, was born in Sackville, New Brunswick to Mable (nee Crossman) and Edmund Tingley on an early Saturday morning, November 9, 1912. I met Ray in 1966 through a girlfriend, Myrtle Mitton. This friend always...
William (Bill) and Beverly Maxwell
My wife, Beverly, and I moved to Spray from Seebe in 1952 when I joined Keith Cole’s crew on the Spray Hydro Development. Canmore was a typical mining town, rather dusty, but a friendly place and we soon became part of the...
Louise and Dutchy Mattson
One Sunday as I was attending the service at Ralph Connor United Church, we were discussing the weather. Someone asked me what the winters were like way back when. So I told her that we were married January 24, 1946 in this...
O. Alfred (Dutchy) Mattson
I was born about six miles out of Cabri, Sask. on a farm on November 6, 1918. My parents were Oscar and Aagot (Sondrol). I was the third child out of eight. Cabri is about forty five miles from Swift Current. I attended school at...
Dick Matt
Well then – you’d like to know how I got to Canmore. It is a very long story, and risking the chance that I might bore you, I’ll tell you anyway. Do you believe in Guardian Angels? If they really exist, I must...
Vittorio (Victor) and Angelina Maschio
Before World War I, Giovanni Maschio from Corlo, Vicenza, Italy, arrived in Bankhead, Alberta, with his two sons, Victor (Vittorio) and Angelo, where they secured employment with the Bankhead Mines. In 1915, Victor decided to...
Jean and Spec Maschio
I, Jean Purcell, came to Canmore in 1948 to answer an ad for a Home Ec. teacher. Prior to this I had taught at Arrowwood, Alberta, located near the community of Gleichen. I had been trained in a two year program at the Faculty of...
Ron and Virginia Marra
My grandfather, Achilles Marra, was the first man to voluntarily retire from Canmore mines. His son, Fred Marra, was one of the first to retire from the mine with fifty years of service. A sister, my aunt Elda, died at age...
Gerald Hankins
What can a neophyte (Canmore resident for only five years) write that might qualify to be included in a “History Book”? Neither Alison nor I have roots or relatives in Canmore, but we have had contacts over the years...