Restaurants and Cafes narrated by Gordon Davies We were recently asked about early businesses in Cochrane. Here is a blog from years ago describing some of our favourite child hood haunts. Elite Café George A. Bevan built this building and ran a confectionery and fruit store. Jack Beynon took over the building, made it longer … Read more
One boy, Wallace R., passed away in 1913; the other boy lost his life in World War I.
We had cooked the food and turkey ourselves. The temperature outside was about 20 below zero. We ate supper with our overshoes and overcoats on and the steam from the cooking filled the hall.
Tractors were becoming popular as well as grain binders and threshing machines so in 1916, a local blacksmith George Hope, acquired a John Deere franchise.
As there were no medical Doctors in the late 1800s, Midwives assisted in many of the births in the district. Margaret (Hatton) Robinson was here in 1898 and delivered many babies.
People came by saddlehorse, buggies, cars, train and airplanes, Yes, there would be three or four monoplanes land in the polo field, some said they came up from the States. The CPR advertised and filled a train in Calgary. It would stop next to the track, let everyone off, then back up to Cochrane and the sidetrack and pick up their load again after the day was over, and return to Calgary.
Restaurants and Cafes narrated by Gordon Davies Elite Café George A. Bevan built this building and ran a confectionery and fruit store. Jack Beynon took over the building, made it longer and started a restaurant, serving meals but also maintaining the confectionary. Jack’s wife Annie did the cooking. Jack left to join the war efforts … Read more
Cochrane Historical Museum CHAPS is preserving and restoring the first home that was built to be used as a hospital in Cochrane. Built in 1909 by Thomas Davies for his family, the resident doctor at the time, Dr. Park, asked that part of the house be used as a nursing home. Mrs. Davies, along with … Read more
The Countess Bubna was one of Cochranes’ great characters. Be sure to read the links in Deep Dive to see her Kelowna – Vernon interests.
Determined never to accept relief during the Depression, Mom hauled log firewood with her team and wagon from the north end of Grand Valley, which was sixteen miles from Cochrane, sawed it into blocks with a crosscut saw and sold it for $5.00 a load, or in the log for $1.00 a foot measured from the front bolster of the wagon.
