History

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 decided to build the Hollowood Store. We were ready for business in June but to make ends meet Jack hayed with Ian McKinnon at Mr.Wright’s Ranch, presently known as the Two Rivers Ranch, and I cooked dinners for twenty-two government men for about a month while looking after the store.

Sometime before, my dad, who was renting the Poynter Ranch, had been hurt while working in Calgary. In October 1938 he decided it would be better for him if he and Mom took over the store and Jack and I managed the Ranch.

By this time Jack owned all the Poynter property, an acreage was surveyed ~rnd the acreage and store were deeded to my folks.

We were both interested in horses and were able to accumulate a number of them by trading and dealing with Joe Allen and Bob McDougall.

The nine hundred acre Spencer Creek Ranch bordered our land and we leased this property for seventeen years. Ace Charters, who came to stay with us, helped Jack break saddle horses.

During World War II, we started a Dude Ranch. Many of our weekend guests were Canadian girls in the Air Force and Airmen from Australia, New Zealand and England who had come to Canada for their training.

On December 27, 1943, Pilot Officers Pete Levy and Slim Somerville from Melbourne, Australia, stayed with us for ten days. It was so cold they only rode one day with Jack when he went to visit our neighbor, Jerr Cotterell. Jim Storey, an English Officer, stayed with us the following Easter.

A year later we received a letter from Jim Storey, who was stationed in Burma, telling us, A group of young Air Force Officers who were spending Christmas in Burma, were in a canteen and he heard someone comparing the hot humid weather with the cold he had experienced last year in Canada at the Hollowood Ranch. He introduced himself to Pete Levy and they enjoyed reminiscing the good times they had in Canada at the Poynters.

These were happy and interesting times but there was a lot of work cooking, and all the washing was done on the scrub board.

For twenty-three years, we supplied the people at the Ghost Dam with milk by milking six to eight cows. We cut ice on the Ghost Dam in winter and used it to keep our milk cool in summer.

Our son, John, v. as born December 28, 1938. When he was five years old he was an active rider. One day when he took a group of riders on a trail ride around Brooks’ Sawmill and the Wildcat Hills, he decided to take a short cut home and became lost in the dark timber. He assured his companions his horse would take them home and it did.

By 1948 Jack worked permanently for Calgary Power, so we sold our cattle and most of our horses. Some of our horses and equipment went to Simpson’s Outfitters at Lake Louise.

On .January 28, 1954, when John was fifteen years old, our daughter, Linda, was born.

In 1958 Johnny married Suzy Richards. Their wedding took place at the McDougall Church on the Morley Indian Reserve. They have three children, Rose Marie, Gary and Jerry. John works at the Petrofina Gas Plant and lives in the Beaupre district.

In 1963 I started raising registered Samoyed dogs for a hobby. We broke some of them to harness and at times used four of them on a sleigh to travel. This was so unusual in this area, they were shown on television ..

The last few years Jack has suffered from painful arthritis in both hips and has had to give up horseback riding. He had both hips replaced in 1972 and both operations were successful.

Linda married David Beddoes in the Cochrane United Church, in 1973, and they live in the Crossfield area.

Jack and I are active in the Beaupre Community Association and The Ghost River Pony Club. I served as Regional School Trustee for Beaupre, was President of the Parent Teacher Association for the Cochrane School and was President for the Cochrane Girl Guides and Brownies. I wrote the Beaupre news for the Rocky View News for eighteen years.

Jack and I were one of the first Appaloosa Breeders in Alberta. In 1942 we bought a grey stallion with black spots on his hindquarters from Chet Ogan of Canmore. This horse changed colour as he matured. We used this stallion to increase our herd when we were operating a Dude Ranch near the Ghost Dam; the result was foals of various colors.

Well-known Calgary horseman, Harry Jacques, identified the stallion as an Appaloosa. The stallion was my saddle horse and I refused to sellhim. Through the efforts of Mr. Jacques, we were able to register the horse as “Sonny Boy” number 261 in the Appaloosa Club at Moscow, Idaho. He was the first Appaloosa registered from Canada.

We purchased some well-bred mares and produced some fine colts, with characteristic appaloosa markings, that included two stallions,

“Speckle Boy” and “Ghost River Son.” Jim Wyatt, an interested Appaloosa breeder from High River, bought these two stallions.

We found that a great deal of travelling, work, time, and money was necessary to establish the breed, so we sold all but three registered Appaloosa mares; one of these was “Ghost River Lady” better known as “Cheyenne” who was a full sister to “Speckle Boy.” She is owned by ourson, John and has won a number of ribbons at horse shows as a top little stake horse. Her daughter, “Ghost River Cheyenne”, is also owned by our son. Cheyenne’s granddaughter, “Ghost River Tiki Bar”, is owned by our daughter, Mrs. Linda Beddoes. Ghost River Cheyenne and Ghost River Tiki Bar are still competing and won the Reserve Champion andGrand Champion ribbons at the 1974 Didsbury Horse Show.

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wyatt put a great deal of time and effort into promoting the Appaloosa Breed in Canada and it became a Canadian Registered Breed in 1961. Over the years, Wyatts sold a number of horses to Hollywood and the well-known rodeo clown, Slim Pickens, was the first to ride one of these horses in a Western Movie. In 1974 Wyatts sold a stallion to a breeder in New Zealand.

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Our paternal grand parents Robert and Mary Alice Whitfield and Grandpa1s brother William homesteaded in the Cochrane area, and our Great-Grandparents, also lived here briefly. However, Dad was the only member of the family that made Cochrane his home. His elder brother Robert lived in Alix, Alberta until his death in 1975 and younger brother George lived most of his life in Nevis, Alberta, however was living in Iowa when he passed away in 2003.

Mom’s parents, Joseph and Maude Bowhay, moved to the farm on the Retreat Road in 1929 after first settling in the Symons Valley area in 1915. Mom’s brother Gordon farmed on the Lochend Road for many years before moving to Bergen in 1972. Gordon passed away in 1999.

Dad and Mom married in 1937. Initially Dad worked “in the bush” for Paul Swanson. With the exception of the war years when he served in the RCAF, they lived on the dairy farm on the Retreat Road from 1938 through to the end of their lives. Dad worked for our Grandparents and then carried on after Grandma passed away. We sold the cows in 1970 and that allowed our parents to enjoy a long and happy retirement, which included several trips.

Dad may have been retired but he didn’t stop working. He worked around the place and served as a civilian guard for the RCMP until he was 78.

He also worked to serve his community. He served as secretary-treasurer of All Saints Anglican Church for 35 years; worked to build Cochrane’s first arena; served on committees for the Big Hill Lodge, and spearheaded the development of Evergreen Manor, an apartment building for seniors. The Chamber of Commerce honoured Dad with a Community Builder Award in 1983 and the Cochrane Legion awarded him a Life Membership for his work on the Manor. The Town of Cochrane named a small park in his honour after his passing. The awards may have had his name on them but it was a team effort all the way with Mom as his greatest supporter.

They were unswerving in their devotion to the family and had a profound influence on all the grandchildren. Their home was always a very welcoming place and the tea kettle was always on. Mom and Dad celebrated their 50th Anniversary in 1987. Dad passed away in 1992 and Mom in 1997. Both are buried in the Field of Honour at the Cochrane Cemetery.

By Nelda (Nowlin) Sharp

My parents, Thomas Harvie (Tim) Nowlin and Louise Cox were first-generation Canadians, their parents having emigrated from the United States, and their grandparents from England and Ireland.

The Nowlins were married in 1935, and the next year moved from Fort Macleod to what is now called Griffin Valley Ranch. I was born in 1938, and Tommy in 1943. Our life in the country was relatively primitive, with no electricity and no running water. We were always well fed, however, as Mom picked and canned berries and preserved wild meat. She baked her bread in a wood stove and planted the first vegetable garden in the area. As I approached my sixth year, my parents had to decide whether to teach me at home or move from the ranch. The closest school, Beaupre, was seven miles away. The roads, just deep ruts in the dirt, were often impassable except by horseback and seven miles was too far for me to ride to school. So in 1944, we moved to Cochrane and bought a house on Pope Avenue. My sister, Gail, was born two years later, in 1946, and our family was complete.

Life in town was different. We had next-door neighbours, and I had playmates. I also had “chores.” The hardest one was walking downtown every day, after school, to get the milk. There was always a long lineup at Ernie Andison’s meat market. One day, just in front of St. Andrew’s church, I stumbled and broke the bottle of milk on the sidewalk. A man, driving by, stopped his car and asked why I was crying. When he saw the spilled milk, he told me to go home, and everything would be okay. Soon, he was at our door with milk from his farm. Henry Whitfield was a wonderful man, and I remembered his kindness every time I saw him.

Tommy was mentally challenged and at the age of 10 went to live in Red Deer. He died in June 2007, having spent more than half a century at Michener Centre.

After graduation, I took some special teacher’s courses and taught school for three years in Condor. There I met Malcolm Sharp who was an Industrial Arts teacher at David Thompson High School. I had probably known only two or three men named “Malcolm”.

One was a boy several years my junior. Malcolm Broatch was everyone’s big brother, thoughtful, kind and liked by all (this was the boy who once invited the whole class to his birthday party because he didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings). As a rash teenager, I vowed to his father, that the man I married would have to be a “Malcolm.”

Malcolm Sharp and I were married in Cochrane, in St. Andrew’s United Church, on August 20, 1958. Our three daughters , Debra Michele, Cynthia Lee, and Susan Anne were born at Rocky Mountain House. We lived in Condor, Calgary, and finally, Cochrane.

Soon after we were married, Malcolm gassed up at Cochrane Auto. As he was about to leave, Graeme Broatch came trotting out. “Have to meet the man Nelda married,” he told my husband, as he shook his hand and recalled my prophecy.

In 1973 we built our house at 58 Chinook Drive close to the High School and Manachaban. The girls had after school jobs. Debby worked at McKays, and Cindy at the Al Drive-In and Cochrane Foodmaster.

Sue worked at the Big Hill Lodge and figure skated every morning before she went to school. Debby (Michele) earned her Canada Cord in Guide in 1976, the first Cochrane girl to have this honour. (Melva Blood was her leader and the late Sheila Wigton was District Commissioner of Guides).

Michele lives in Toronto where she works in the Non Profit Voluntary sector. In 2000 while working for the Migraine Society, she published The Migraine Cook Book. She is currently studying the Non Profit Volunteer Management program at Ryerson University, and is also consulting for several non-profit organizations.

Cindy married Jamie Undenbach . They live in Calgary with their three children: Marc (20) Cole (17) and Hana (14) . Cindy works with Jamie at their software company.

Sue lives with her husband , Sean O’Neill – Whitehead and daughter, Morgan (13) in the Millarville area. Sue graduated with distinction from Alberta College of Art & Design and currently work from her home.

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Connected to the Callaway Family history in Big Hill Country.

My great grandfather, Joseph Callaway, immigrated to Ontario in 1843. He married and he and his wife had 6 children. He owned an operated the Dominion Salt Works in Ontario. Joseph and his wife and children decided to come west travelling to Winnipeg, Manitoba by wagon, pulled by oxen. At night they turned the wagon box over to use as shelter. In 1886,the family moved farther west to the Brushy Ridge District in Alberta where he homesteaded the SE Sec 22 Twp 25 Rge 4 W5M.

Joseph’s oldest son, Emanuel Joseph “EJ.”, my grandfather was born in 1855 in Ontario and just before coming west with his parents he married Elizabeth Ferguson. Upon arriving in Manitoba, they homesteaded in Killarny Manitoba and had six children. Enthused about the stories from the west, E.J. and Elizabeth with their children moved to Monte Creek near Kamloops, British Columbia. In 1894, shortly after their arrival in Kamloops, Elizabeth died of Quinsy. In 1898, E.J. married Alice Miriam Partridge. In 1899, a daughter, Edith Sarah was born. In 1900, they moved with their family to the Springbank area where A.A. “Ted” and Mary were born.

In I 906, E.J. and Alice purchased 800 acre of land from George Wills and they moved to the Brushy Ridge district. They built a new house and it was here that Lily, Nora, Nellie and Alfred were born. Dr. Park and Mrs. Hughes from Cochrane were in attendance at their births. The family had now grown to 13 children. The younger children attended Brushy Ridge School and “E.J.” was on the Brushy Ridge School Board with Sykes Taylor and William Edge. “EJ .” was also a Government Weed Inspector for many years.

In 1929, my Dad, Arthur A. (Ted) Callaway married Jemima (Mamie) Ballantyne, who had come from Scotland to Calgary with her parents and brothers and sisters.

In 1932, my grandfather, Emanual Joseph passed away and left three quarter sections to my father.

I was born in 1929 in the Calgary General Hospital and have a sister Evelyn Aileen (Perkins) born December 2, 1935 also at the General. I started school at Brushy Ridge School, just across the road from our house, in 1934 and after passing grade nine in June 1944, I started High School in September at Western Canada High School in Calgary. Besides my regular classes I took a 2 year course in metals and a 3 year course in automotive. I also joined the Army Cadets and worked up to the rank of Staff-Sargeant.

I would go to Calgary, Sunday evening to where I boarded during the week, then catch a ride home with Harvey Hogarth Sr. (Hogarth’s Transport) on Friday afternoon.

I remember the streets in Calgary in the winter. There was no snowplowing. The roads built up with deep ruts in the snow and there was no getting out of them except at intersections where the ruts crossed each other. The same went with Highway # I to Cochrane (now highway IA.) The Trans Canada Highway# l did not exist at that time.

After I graduated from High School, I came home and worked with my Mom and Dad on the farm.

Looking back over the years, I remember the fire that swept through Jumping Pound and Brushy Ridge. It was rumored that the fire started by embers that had smoldered in a muskeg all summer up by the Jumping Pound Ranger Station. An 80 to 90 mile an hour wind fanned it up and away it went. It was November 19, 1936, a day to be remembered by many for years to come.

The winter of 1948 was one to remember. We measured the snow in feet not inches! The farms south of Cochrane had to rely on Griffins to keep the main road open with their D8 Caterpillar. By December 23, most of the road had to be abandoned because there was 10 to 15 feet of snow piled on the road. It was through the fields with a tractor escorting Johnny Arnell in his 1 ton truck taking the milk that had to go to the Model Dairies in Calgary daily. Come mid-April 1949, Griffins were finally able to open the road.

During these years we were not in the Municipal District of Rocky View # 44. We were in what they called a Rural Improvement District and the farmers looked after the roads themselves. This included building the roads, maintaining them, including culverts and small bridges and also grading them.

In 1937, Dad traded in his old Hart Parr tractor on a McCormick Deering W-30 tractor. It was the first rubber-tired tractor that the people west of Calgary had seen. Dad was constantly teased about that tractor. “It can’t do anything out in the field!”, the neighbours teased but strange as it may seem, two neighbors who had the same model tractors on steel, appeared in their fields before long with the steel cut off and replaced with rubber tires. Being that we had a tractor with rubber tires, we had the honor of doing the grading on the roads, pulling a grader that originally was pulled by 4 to 8 head of horses, whichever was needed to build and maintain the roads.

In Grandpa’s days you might say “the horse age” he had a horse-powered baler. In winter time, they would bale prairie wool then ship it from Cochrane by railroad to Banff, Lethbridge or where ever he had a market for it. They would bale for 3 days then load the hay on wagons and haul it to Cochrane with 4 horses pulling the wagon. Then they loaded it on the railroad cars. This took another 3 days. The bale weighed 110 – 120 pounds each.

When you look back and see what the farmers did in those days we don’t know what work is! All this was combined with braking horses to break and sell and some of them went to the Army in 1914-1919. They also had cattle, milked cows, sent milk to a cheese factory that was located 2 miles east of here, sold cream to the Cochrane Dairy which was located immediately west of Cochrane adjacent to the Highway l (now IA) where the Cochrane Ranche Provincial Historic Site is now located.

In the fall of l953 , I worked for a year and a half with Shell Oil Exploration.

On June 18, 1954, I married Yvonne Blow, daughter of Len and Mable Blow of Cochrane. In 1955, I left Shell Oil Exploration to come back to work with Mom and Dad on the farm. At this time Dad rented a half section from Arthur and Mary Coelen. We farmed this land for 19 years until it was sold for subdivision and is now called Tower Ridge.

In 1958, Yvonne and I started to build our own home. With the assistance of Lambert Brothers Construction, who did the basement foundation and framing up, the house began to take shape. In the meantime, Yvonne and I, with our daughter Debra, born November 1955, and our son David, born January 1957 lived with my Mom and Dad. It was a great day when we moved into our new home.

In March 1961, our daughter Susan was born and in September 1964 another daughter Marie was born.

My mother passed away May 15, 1963 and Dad and I continued to work together.

In 1964, I bought Pleasant View Farm from my Dad and continued with the dairy operation. I started working toward my goal of having a herd of Brown Swiss Dairy Cows in 1972. I eventually succeeded in having a complete herd of Brown Swiss Cows with one of the cows achieving the honor of holding the production record of milk production of Brown Swiss in Canada. My father passed away on March 31, 1986.

In December 2002, I retired from the dairy operation and sold our dairy herd after succeeding in reaching

my goal. Our dairy was the last dairy in this area. I am still actively producing hay and boarding cattle.

Yvonne keeps very busy, still volunteering and we are enjoying our grandchildren. Our children are achieving goals of their own.

Debra married Dave Millican in 1979 and they have two sons Kobe and Kelly. They live in Cochrane, Alberta.

David married Marilyn Fullerton in 1982. They have three daughters, Bailey, Paige and Cassandra. David lives west of Stavely Alberta and publishes the Angus World magazine.

Susan graduated with her Registered Nurse degree in Edmonton and became a neo-natal nurse. She moved to San Diego in 1986 to work in the San Diego Children’s Hospital. In 1992, she married Rocky Cook and they have a son , Robbie and a daughter Marie. Susan founded the S.C.R.U.B.S. Nurses Uniform Company which has been very successful.

Marie had an interior design business in Edmonton and married John Fentum in July 1994. They moved to Denver, Colorado in 1995 and they have 2 children, a daughter Alexis and a son Grant. Marie now builds houses and sells real estate.

Yvonne and I are enjoying our retirement visiting friends and family and doing a bit of travelling.

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2025 saw a significant increase in web page visits. As of late December, 27%. We’re grateful for the increasing support and will continue to publish a new story every Saturday.

Here are the top 5 posts of 2025. Enjoy, feel free to comment and click on any image for a larger view.

We are witnessing a resurgence in the history of Cochrane and the surrounding area.

We’re happy to show you the top ten posts of 2025. We’ll start with 10 through 6.

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In the book Taming the Prairie Wool ( 1967) the story is told of Thomas Henry Norris, and his son Arthur Ernest Norris coming to Glendale, homesteading and establishing farm and family on NE Sec 34 Twp 25 Rge 3 W5M.

The first of the big changes for the family came in 1946, when after returning from the Second World War Art and Susie’s oldest son Sidney bought the Thomas Standring farm at SW Sec 14 Twp 26 Rge3 W5M. For a number of years he resided during the winters at his parents’ home and commuted by tractor to do his daily chores at the new place. During the summers he “batched it” on his own farm.

Daughter Ellen went to normal school and taught in a variety of one room schools around Alberta. In 1948 she married Henry Buckler and they moved to Water Valley where they began their family, later moving to Bottrel where they farmed with Henry’s father David.

Younger brothers Phil and Bob continued to farm with their father and took over the farm from him in 1954. In 1954 Art and Susie retired and moved into Calgary.

Electricity came to the district in 1950 and that made life much easier for both farmer and farmer’s wife! Mechanical milking machines, refrigeration systems, bulk tanks and pipeline systems were added to the farms as they became available.

In 1958 Sid bought a house located near 26th Ave and 6th Street NW in Calgary, and had the house moved to his farm. The house was moved by Bill Wearmouth. In January 1959 Sid married Rose Holmgren from Red Deer and the two of them moved into his “new house.”

In 1960 through 1962 the three brothers designed and built new parlour barns to modernize their dairying businesses. The barns were built by a co-operative effort with Roy Buckler, Art, Sid, Phil, and Bob Norris and their helpers all working to get the barns built, the cows milked and the farming done in good time. The new barns were clean and efficient and, once the cows adjusted to the change, made life easier for everybody. Uncle Phil has one word of advice for anyone making a major change to the routine in how dairy cows are handled. “Don’t feed them for a day prior to making the change and cleaning the new barn will be a lot easier.”

By the end of 1963 the next generation of the Norris family was complete. Ellen and her husband Henry Buckler had six surviving children, Hellen, Valerie, John, Tim, Charlie, and Victor. Sid and Rose had three: Marjorie, Susan and Arthur. The Buckler children attended Westbrook School and Cochrane High and the Norris three attended Andrew Sibbald Elementary, Manachaban Middle School and Cochrane High . Hellen graduating first in 1968 and young Art late in 1981.

In the winter of 1971/72, after a brief stay at the Bethany Care Centre in Calgary, both Art and Susie died, he at age 90 and she at 79. A big hole was left in the heart of the family. But both of them had numerou siblings who kept an eye on all that went on within the family for the year to come.

Always the Norris homes were places of warmth and hospitality. Friends and relatives came from the city and further afield for visits of varying lengths. Many cousins and second cousins found opportunities for work with “the uncles”. For many of the girls in the family their first job outside of the family home was to go to “the uncles” for a summer and cook for the men and the hired men. Those poor uncles survived a real variety of early cooking disasters with good humour and unending kindness. Hellen and Val both lived with “the uncles” for their university years as the Non-is farm is in easy commuting distance of the University of Calgary.

Two big changes happened at Phil and Bob’s in the 1970s. The drilling of a good water well at the North end of the farm ended more than 50 years of water worries, and they also had a new house built for themselves across the yard from the home they’d lived in all their lives. The new house was built by Gordon Hewitt and was designed by “the uncles” with input from their cousin Ken Bond who was an architect.

In 1976 Sid and Rose decided that the time had come to stop dairying. Doug Reid purchased the herd and quota and rented the barns and land. It made selling the cows much easier knowing that they would be in the hands of someone who knew them and was so skilled with them.

Phil and Bob continued with dairying until 1986 when they sold their cows and quota to Fiona and Garnet McConney. Once again a difficult decision was made easier due to the quality of the people buying the cows. Fiona and Garnet also rented the barns and land from Phil and Bob for a few years.

And so, after 60-plus years of successful dairying by three generations of Norrises, the herds were sold. Both Sid’s herd and Phil and Bob’s had been recognized with numerous awards over the years from the Alberta Dairy Herd Improvement Association for milk quality, production levels and excellence of individual cows. Pedigree lines begun with the breeding records kept on the two farms are still active in the Alberta Holstein herd.

In retirement Sid drove school bus for Judd Pickup for 10 years, retiring from that at age 65. He remembers his “kids” fondly and is always happy to have them speak to him when he is out and around. Phil and Bob made the switch to a Charolais, Hereford cross cow calf operation.

In 1992 Uncle Bob married Mavis Robinson, a widow from Toronto who had recently moved to Calgary to retire close to her sons and their families. Several years later Uncle Phil also married.

In 2005 there was much celebrating in the family as both the Buckler farm and the Norris farm reached the 100 year anniversary. Parties were held at both farms that summer with friends, relatives and neighbours coming from near and far to reminisce and reconnect. Dignitaries did their presentations and plaques are proudly displayed.

All four of Art and Susie’s children are quite well and still active in the local community and their respective churches.

Sid (widowed in 1987) lives with his daughter Sue and her husband Bruce Hewitt in the house they built on the pasture quarter SE Sec 15 Twp 26 Rge 3 W5M. Phil lives at the Big Hill Lodge in Cochrane. Ellen is at home on the Buckler farm in the summers and stays in Cochrane with her daughter Hellen in the winter. Bob and Mavis divide their time between the farm and their retirement home in Calgary.

Members of the next generation continue on the farms and in the community. John and Reet Buckler living on the Water Valley farm, Tim Buckler is on the Bottrel farm as are younger brother Victor and his partner Charlene and their family. Charlie and his wife Kim now have a U-Pick strawberry farm and market garden on the Bottrel farm as well. Art Norris and his wife, Molly Shier are raising their son, Kieran on Sid and Rose’s farm where they have a cow-calf operation. Marjorie lives in Northwest Calgary and remains busy with her involvement on the farm, with the family, her church and her career with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Today, in 2007, Art and Susie Norris’s descendants are spread across Alberta and Canada, from New Brunswick in the East to Alberta in the West and from Red Earth Creek in the North to Calgary in the South. The family farms continue to be “home” for one and all.

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