I remember Dewey Blaney, Nick Cosis, Yee Lee’s Laundry, Brodie’s Barber Shop, the brickyard and creamery, Dave Murray’s blacksmith shop, George Bunney’s milk delivery by horse and wagon.

In February of 2023 we published this picture from Big Hill Country. We soon were asked where this bridge was? Do you know?

Great Grandmother Gertrude often stated she was a Pennsylvania Dutch, which indicates the Fenton family originally came from Pennsylvania.

Page 357 Big Hill Country 1977 Joe Boston and his brother came from Cheshire, England, in search of their father, whom they found working on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway line at Canmore. Joe went to work as an engineer on the railroad, then worked in the Canmore mines before homesteading at Grand

Who was James Walker? He does have a street in Cochrane named after him. We’ll research his history to tell the story of one of Cochrane and Alberta’s early pioneers

In the 1930s Jack Poynter worked for Arthur Crawford. While there he broke a number of Arthur’s famous Clydesdale horses. Even the stallion was broke to harness. In the spring of 1938, Jack and I were married at the Nazarene Church in Calgary. With very little money, three saddle horses and lots of ambition we