by Jack Fuller – pg 330 Big Hill Country DP was a quiet man. Almost shy. Perhaps a little awed by the women in his life for he was, first and last, a horse and cowman of the old school. Soft-spoken with a subtle sense of humour and, a soft, almost silent laugh. In a

events added. People came from near and far to take part. In 1946 the gymkhana was moved to Cochrane, thus, ending one of the yearly events that were looked forward to each year and had been enjoyed by so many.

CHAPS recently received a donation of “A Peep into the Past”, A Collection of Historic Poems and Short Stories by Gordon and Belle Hall Vol. II. CHAPS is happy to continue the Hall’s role of collecting and educating people about Cochrane and Area’s rich history. Our first story of the Halls is their recollection of

– photo courtesy the Memory Project – Article pg 478 More Big Hill Country Eleanor hails from the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario. She came West in 1950 at the time of the second oil boom. I’m originally from the Barrhead district where my father, who came West from Ontario as a boy in 1910,

THE HOLLOWOOD RANCH STORE and ANGUS AND GUDRUN MacDONALD  – by Tootie Poynter  In the spring of 1938 Jack and I, with the help of my dad and Dave Pow, built a store on our Hollowood Ranch, the W1/2 of 17-26-5-5. The store was named after the ranch, named by me after all the hollow

– Laurie Johnson Big Hill Country My father, Everett C. Johnson, was born in Virginia in 1860 and moved to Minnesota with his parents after the American Civil War. At the age of fifteen, he drove stagecoach in the Black Hills, and a year later he went to Wyoming where he rode with Bill Cody