But the sea was not their first love, for Miles that was horses, but for Miles and Beryl, together, it was mountaineering. In India they had made many climbs of significant peaks in the Himalayas, and for an extremely long time, Beryl held the female record for having climbed the highest peak without additional bottled oxygen. Their friendship with Tenzing Norgay resulted in his employment with the British Everest Expedition, when Tenzing and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest.

One day, during a terrible winter blizzard but heeding his father’s advice, Gordon covered his face and hands and tied the horse’s reins to the saddle horn and let the horse take him home. The horse galloped the 5 miles from Cochrane to the farm safely

He was very community minded and took many pictures especially of the local parades. When the Volkswagen Bug came on the market, it surprised everyone in Cochrane to see Jack unfold his large frame out of his pride and joy.

I remember that we often had a prospective new minister and his wife stay at our home when the minister would be invited to give a sermon before the congregation to see if he was acceptable.

In 1980 there was a bylaw in place in Cochrane which disallowed dancing on the south side of the tracks. This affected the business of a nightclub situated on the old Steeves homesite. During a Steeves family gathering at the 75th celebration in Cochrane, Shirley noted that the Steeves children had done a lot worse things than dance on the south side of the tracks.

As the 1 A Hwy had been changed to no longer cut through the downtown sector, through traffic no longer had to travel this intersection, thus no need for the policeman.