President's Message
By Margaret Kay
While pondering what to write for this edition of Heritage Seekers I began to think about all the ways in which genealogy can touch your life. Hereís a list of things that have happened or are just about to happen to me and I share them as a microcosm of the pleasures, coincidences and benefits that genealogy can bring for all of us.
The Grande Prairie Branch had the pleasure of hosting two cartographers and a president for our May meeting. The latter was Ian Holmes, our newly elected AGS president, and the former were Mr. & Mrs. Milson. Rob gave us an entertaining and interesting evening on using maps in genealogy. I loved the maps as they depicted the area where I was born and in which I lived for the first twenty-one years of my life. Maybe our ancestors were neighbours? Rob provided us with useful ways to use those tools that we sometimes only use to pinpoint a place. Robís wife helped by displaying and selling their wide variety of maps and books. We loved having all three people and hope they will return one day to tell us more.
I looked around the room during that meeting and realized that before joining the Grande Prairie Branch I had met or knew only a handful of those present. All the others are new friends and acquaintances. Genealogy does that for you. It doesnít only provide old links but creates present ones as well.
Not that all about genealogy can be described as a pleasure. On the coldest May morning the Branch held a garage sale. I was unfortunate enough to draw the early Saturday morning shift and watched as the wind blew and the rain tried a few drops. However, the weather does not deter die-hard garage sale participants and a good time was had by all. Oh! And we made a tidy profit too so a big thank you to all who contributed with time, goods, and a garage ó thanks Bev!
At work today I returned a phone call to a person in Edmonton that I have spoken to before on the phone about our common "business", but have never met. When our business was concluded she asked me if I was involved in genealogy. Hi there Kate Wight, fellow AGS member!
On Canada Day I am flying to England to visit family and friends and also to attend a Dosser family reunion. With such an unusual maiden name it is easy to identify ancestors who have mostly stayed within a small area of East Yorkshire. Our branch of the family is very small. I know very few other Dossers though I linked up with a big Canadian clan a few years ago but that is a serendipitous story for another day. My sister and I, along with two second cousins, with whom I have become reacquainted since starting my genealogical searches, are planning to attend our first reunion together. It promises to be a fun time and I am starting to get very excited.
So you see, our genealogical hobby leads us down all sorts of roads, meeting good people along the way and expanding our experiences daily. May your summer be filled with coincidences, serendipity and great research results, and of course family and friends too.
Summer 2000 is almost here. Some of you will have exciting family reunions to attend.
Many of you will travel to conduct genealogical research in the areas your ancestors once lived. Others will have the longer summer days to spend at home working on genealogical projects - or catching up on genealogical reading. How will you spend Summer 2000?
Genealogists rely on the kindness of others - mostly strangers that we may never meet. We rely on members of distant genealogical clubs and societies to index, transcribe and record various sources of information about our ancestors and their lives. We rely on the many individuals who work in libraries, record offices, church offices, cemetery offices, archives, newspapers etc. Many of these people go much further than the extra step to be of assistance to us. Will you be able to use part of Summer 2000 working on a project that will be most beneficial to someone else?
Please consider writing a paragraph or two about your Summer 2000 and submitting it to "Heritage Seekers" for our September issue. Sharing your experience might be helpful to another member.
Whatever Summer 2000 brings to you, I wish you success in your pursuit.
Oh no, it wasn't always yellow, it has been many colors and has served many children within our families.
It all started back in 1938 with my great grandfather,
Thomas Brady, who built a high chair of the expected child, me.
At the time we lived with my Grandfather Stenseth, north of Valleyview,
or with my grandparents Ben and Lutie Bodeker, east of Valleyview.
We did not have our own homestead yet.
Granddad Brady, Granny Lutie's father, lived with
them first at Sturgeon Lake and then when they moved to Valleyview.
At each location (at Sturgeon Lake, the Waller place north of
Valleyview or the place east on the hill overlooking the settlement)
they provided him with his own cabin. (The cabin at Sturgeon Lake
was a converted N.W.M.P. building as my Dad remembers when they
were fixing it up for Granddad, having to take out the 'cell'
in the building. He said that the cell was constructed of wooden
poles and painted grey to look like steel.)
Granddad Brady had many talents and they included art sketches and woodwork. I still have some of his artwork and the yellow high chair. The artwork was done with pencil sketches and with pastels, and was mostly copies of pictures that he liked. I prize these pieces; especially the ones that are all flyspecked from hanging on the cupboard door of his little cabin. They decorated his walls.
Another piece of his work is a prized possession of Nita Clough at Valleyview. It is a rocking chair that Granddad Brady made for Sandy Ford, who then gave it to Nita.
In 1940, when sister Phyl was a small baby we moved to our own homestead south and west of Valleyview. Dad had built a two-room home in a clearing on the west side of the quarter. It was a short walk through the trees, past the outhouse to our garden and our pastures.
By then Grannie and Grandpa Bodeker had moved away so Granddad Brady came to live on our homestead in a little log cabin. Phyl and I spent quite a bit of time with him when our Dad was away working and Mom had to do the farm chores. He taught us much about 'behaving and manners'. Phyl remembers him teaching her how to hold her fork, and she had to do it right. Being I was the oldest I was away to school first so Phyl spent even more time with Granddad Brady. I remember him as being a small man and very stern and strict.
In his little cabin I remember him having a cupboard and table, a bed and a stove and other possessions stacked in the corner. Outside was a good-sized woodpile, which we remember, was one of his major activities, besides babysitting us girls - splitting wood. Also, to the west of his cabin was the root cellar, next to our big garden spot. This was a wonderful structure that kept our vegetables fresh all year round.
Granddad Brady died of cancer in the summer of 1948, at the age of 88 years, when I was ten years old.
The old yellow high chair was used by my sister Phyl and myself and then it went north of town to be used by our cousins. Uncle Tony and Aunt June used the high chair for their younger children until our sister Beverly came along in 1950, when it came back to our house.
It was used by Bev and then brother Gilbert in his short life. Gilbert was born in 1954 and had nerve (spinal or brain) injuries that gave him convulsions that became increasingly strong as he got older. He died when he was only two years old, and is buried in the Valleyview cemetery along with Granddad Brady.
Then in 1959 I got married and we began our family. The 'old yellow high chair' came to our house. Here Kerry, Lonny and Bernice enjoyed the use of this old chair, and it has stayed in our home ever since.
The chair isn't much to look at and Dad says that it was just made of scraps of material that Granddad had left from building some of his finer pieces, like the rocking chairs. It had serving trays attached a few times but since we've had it it is just pushed up to the table for the young ones. If we scraped down the paint we are liable to find many colors - but we won't bother it now, it is just fine in yellow.
When our children grew up and became parents they would come home and their children have enjoyed the use of this chair. We now have seven grandchildren (Tyler, Dallas, Brady, Jordan, April, Melissa and Steven).
Today the little 'old yellow high chair' has a special corner in our dining room and a special place in all our memories. At Christmas 1999, Steven, who is four, says, "I want to sit in my chair", to the delight of his Great Grandparents, Graham and Eunice Bodeker, and his Grandparents, Marv and Fran Moore.
We will care for the 'old yellow high chair' and are sure that many more little folk will call it theirs, for a time.
Could it touch another six generations?
In a recent American magazine, I found an article regarding cleaning tombstones. The suggestion was a process involving mild cleansers and bleach. I thought this would be an interesting article for all our genealogy friends and suggested it be included in the next issue of "Heritage Seekers". Well, the reaction was immediate and I was informed that using bleach was NOT a recommended procedure and the information would not be passed on.
So, my mission then became - to find the proper way to clean those special family headstones that are in need of attention.
I went searching on the internet and found a site at <http://www.gravestonestudies.org/>. This connected me to "The Association of Gravestones Studies". I figured they would know what was best, so went searching through their headlines. This site contains plenty of information, but one article, in particular, caught my eyes - "Some Gravestone Rubbing Do's and Don'ts". I hoped there would be some helpful hints in there about cleaning too.
Gravestone rubbing has been a practice for many years and has recently become a controversial procedure. In cemeteries where a restoration project is in progress, rubbing is often banned. Some styles of rubbing require more pressure than others, and if the stone is already in a state of deterioration, rubbing can cause permanent damage. So, if the rubbing can cause damage, then using improper cleaning procedures and materials will get you into a whole pile of trouble.
These "do's and don'ts" are from the leaflet "Gravestone Rubbing for Beginners", also found on this site:
Another no-no is using shaving cream to read badly worn lettering. I admit I haven't been out reading gravestones lately, so this idea was completely new to me. An idea I don't think I would have tried - wouldn't it leave a greasy film? Also, do not use any chalk, graphite, dirt or other concoctions. Use a large mirror to redirect bright sunlight diagonally across the face of the hard to read inscription.
As I said, there is a lot of information on this site and it all makes sense. After all, what we all want is to maintain the old stones and to ensure the new stones will be around for our descendants to read. So, if you are out reading or rubbing in the near future, please be careful and be responsible!
PBS "Ancestors" 2nd Series - now showing on KSPS (Cable 4 in Grande Prairie) on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. from June 4 to August 27. More details on their website at: http://www.pbs.org/kbyu/ancestors/
The "Ancestors" 1st Series is available on video and may be borrowed from the Grande Prairie Public Library if you are a library member.
Have you seen our new shelving! It looks great. Our books are so much easier to find now that they are no longer squished together. I would like to thank my 'crew' who helped on moving day: Valerie Jenner, Marion Ledger, Gwen Turner, Nora and Ian Hassell, Leita Askew and from the library, Barb Moreau and Pam Chislett. Pam had everything so organized that everything went very smoothly.
Pam Chislett and the Grande Prairie Public Library deserve extra thanks. Besides making the arrangements to choose and order the shelving, the library staff was so co-operative in re-arranging their own collection to accommodate ours. This was definitely a great example of how two groups can work together.
The GPPL history collection is now on the shelves to the right as you walk into the Isabel Campbell room. Our collection is on the opposite wall (far left side of the room). As you face the collection, the newsletters are on the left and the books on the right. The center bay contains: Top shelf - periodicals; display shelf - new issues of the periodicals; 3rd shelf - back issues of Everton's Genealogical Helper; 4th shelf - Peace area obituary collection; bottom shelf- Alberta obituaries, Branch ancestor charts, research aids and oversized books and atlases.
The last day for the 'Genies in the Library' program before the summer break was Friday, June 2, 2000. During the summer the 'Genies' are still available by appointment. Please try to give the 'Genie' at least 24 hours notice. We love to help but we do appreciate a little time to make arrangements to be in the library.
The 'Genies' are:
The 'Genies in the Library' program will resume regular hours starting Wednesday, September 27, 2000 through Friday, December 1, 2000.
** A nice change to procedures at the Grande Prairie Public Library is that the Peace Library System will now cover any costs for bringing in interlibrary loan items such as books and microfilm. **
New Books in the GP & District Branch, AGS Collection:
New Genealogy Books at GPPL:
New Genealogy Books in the GPPL Children's Collection:
An article worth noting:
The Alberta Family Histories Society (Calgary) newsletter "Chinook" (Vol. 20 Issue #3) contains an article called 'Border Crossing Records' by Claire Neville. The article explains how to access Canadian/United States (and vice versa) border crossing records through the LDS Family History Catalogue.
Please contact me if you read any articles that may be helpful or of special interest to our members and I will mention them in the library report.
Have a great summer!
Membership prize of "quilted runner" (made by Paulette Hrychiw) was donated by Leita Askew to the Grande Prairie Public Library Silent Auction where it raised $85.00 for the Library.
Names taken from the obituaries in the "Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune" from January to December 1999.
ALLCOCK, Reginald Frank "Reg"
ALLISON - see BICKELL, Nettie Marie
ANDERSON, Daulton Wallace
ANDERSON, Kenneth Marten
ANDERSON, Ronald
ANDREIUK, Dolly
ARMSTRONG, Jody John
AUBIN, Cecile E ( )
AUDET - see BELLERIVE, Rollande
AYRE, Agnes Irene (WRIGHT)
BADGER, Gordon John
BAILEY, Mazette "Beryl" (STONEBURGH)
BANK, Edgar H
BANKHEAD - see PERRY, Bea
BARR, Amanda Christen
BARTEL - see ISAAC, Marie
BARTON, Sadie Doris (KIRKHAM)
BATTER, Linnea "Lennie" (LIDVALL)
BEAULIEU, John Lewis
BEAUPRE, H Lorne
BECK, George Humphry
BELCOURT - see LETENDRE, Evelyn Sarah
BELLERIVE, Rollande ( ) [AUDET]
BENTERUD - see NYSTED, Walborg
BERG, Freda May (HAMELL)
BERG, Melvin C
BERRE - see FUNK, Mary
BETTENSON, Janet Marie ( )
BICKELL, Nettie Marie (ALLISON)
BIDEWELL, Henry Arthur
BINKS - see OATWAY, Marjorie Hazel
BLACKBOURN, Wm E "Ted"
BLACKIE, Douglas
BLAIS, Eugene "Oscar"
BODETTE, Mary Rose "Toots" (ROULEAU)
BOURGEOIS, Doris Gilberte
BOYD, Gladys Bonita ( )
BRADLEY, John Wade
BREEMER - see WINIA, Jenny "Jantje"
BRESSLER - see KING, Emma
BREUTKREUTZ, Eduard Theodore "Ed"
BROWN, Kimberly Jane (MESERVY)
BROWN, Myrtle Itha (TOLLEY)
BROWN, Pansy Lillian (TONE)
BRUCE, David George "Dave"
BRUMPTON - see GALATUIK, Doreen Mary
BUDZINSKI, Victor
BUECHNER, Jean Isabel (McNAB)
BURBEE - see MATHESON, Viola Marjorie
BURTT - see DODD, Janet Marie
BUTLER, Marion (OPHUS)
CAMPAGNON, Thomas
CAMPBELL, Doris Gyda (ROMKEY)
CAMPBELL, Frank
CAMPBELL, Patricia ( )
CANNING, Calvin
CARNEY, Lillian E
CARSON - see LOVE, Gladys Eloise
CAUDRON - see ROBINSON, Katheryn Jamie
CAVE-BROWNE - see WATTS, Selina
CHABOT - see MERCHANT, Odette Marie
CHALMERS, Bessie Eileen (OLSTAD)
CHAWRUN, Anna ( )
CHRISTENSEN, Orville Lenard
CHRISTOPHERSON - see PURVES, Edith Mary
CLARK - see HOCKEY, Dora Grace
CLARK, James
CLARKE, Olga Pauline (UNGSTAD)
CLARKSON, Douglas Wilson
CLEMENTS - see McKAY, Brenda Colleen
CLISBY, John William
COLEMAN - see JEWITT, Zoe
COLLINS, Beryl (HAYES)
CONLEY, Charles Michael
COOKMAN, Gary Donald
CORMACK, James "Jim"
COWAN - see HARTLEY, Myrtle Rose
COX, Robert "Bob"
CUMMINGS, Treena Dawn
DALGLEISH, Jean Margaret (LECKIE)
DANA, Dorothy B (NORMAN)
DAWSON, William Roderick "Rod"
DeLISLE - see HAGLUND, Lela Olavine
DESCOTEAUX, Maurice Francois
deVEER - see FRIESEN, Hilda
DIERKER, Edward "Ed"
DILLABOUGH, William Gerald "Jeff"
DODD, Janet Marie (BURTT)
DONISON - see VICK, Lydia Margareta
DONISON, Agatha (PETERS) [HOGLUND]
DONOHUE, Eugina "Jean" (RODZEWON)
DORSCHEID, Stanley Donald
DROLET, Michel "Mitch"
DUBORD, Arthur
DUNCAN, Helen Mary ( )
DUNNE, William Terence "Bill"
DUPUY - see MERCHANT, Odette Marie
DURDA, Trudy Sophia (RIPKENS)
DYCK, Eileen Carol (ROBERTSON)
DYCK, Irene Dorothy (FRANCIS)
DYKSHOORN, Lamberta Fredrika "Bertha"
(KONYNENBELT)
EASTMAN, James Walter
EDEY, Margaret May Jean (JOHNS)
EIDSE, Aaron
ELLIOT, Agnes (FERGUSON)
ELLIOTT, Glenn Alton
ENDERS, Albert Frederick
ENDRESEN, Peder Andreas
ENGLISH - see McBRIDE, Rooth Margery
ENNS - see GRAMS, Anna
ERICKSON, Gladys Edna (PETERSON)
ESKDALE, Tom
EVASKEVICH - see STENVALL, Caroline Victoria
FAREWELL - see SATHER, Mary
FEE - see PRONOVOST, Mabel "Maisie"
FERGUSON - see ELLIOT, Agnes
FERGUSON - see McDONALD, Gertrude Margaret
FERRIS, Arnold
FIELD, Mary (O'CONNELL)
FITCHETT, Florence Marie Therise (GABOURY)
FITZGERALD, Frank Edward
FITZSIMMONS, Justin
FLEMING, Dale Alexander
FLETT - see McKITTRICK, Jemima
FORD, Joyce Arlene (HART)
FORGAN, Blanche Mae ( )
FORSEN, Connie L
FORSETH, Esther Joyce (SWANSON)
FORTIER, Pearl Ruth (URNESS)
FOSTER, Len
FOWLER, Lindsay Herbert
FRANCIS - see DYCK, Irene Dorothy
FRASER - see LOEWEN, Margaret Iola
FRASER, David Dennis
FRIESEN, Hilda (deVEER)
FRISSELL, William Henry
FROEHLER - see GROSE, Edna Marie
FUNK, Mary (BERRE)
GABOURY - see FITCHETT, Florence Marie
GALATUIK, Doreen Mary (BRUMPTON)
GALAVAN, Borgel "Bambi" ( )
GALBRAITH, Vernon James
GALLOWAY, Donald George
GANZEVELD, Dennis Richard
GAUGLITZ, Bernd Michael "Bernie"
GEBHART, Rudolph Lawrence "Lance"
GELETA, Wasilene "Lena" ( )
GIRARD - see McQUITTY, Rose Alba
GOLDSMITH - see LOCK, Olive Clare
GOODWIN, Stephen Micheal
GORDEY, John
GORGICHUK, Melvyne
GOUCHER - see KERR, Jean Virginia
GOUCHEY - see STEINKE, Martha Mildred
GOULD, James Alexander
GRAHAM, Flora Mary Dunn (MIDDLETON)
GRAMS, Anna (ENNS) [SCHMITKE]
GRANT, Reginald Stewart
GREGORY, Lionel Gordon
GREIG, Gladys Irene ( )
GROSE, Edna Marie (FROEHLER)
GRUBB, Marion Douglas
GUSTAFSON, Ingrid Elizabeth [WESTAD] [KRISTIANSEN]
[HODGSON]
HAGLUND, Lela Olavine (DeLISLE) [TRACY]
HALL - see RIEHL, Olive
HALLMAN, Jamie Robert
HALVORSON, Roy Raymond
HAMERL - see MACIBORSKY, Edna
HAMMELL - see BERG, Freda May
HANNAS - see ZARACHOWICZ, Darlene May
HANSON, Ingeborg "Belle" ( )
HARDER, Irvin Lawrence
HARDING, Elizabeth "Betty" ( )
HARRIS, Olga Martha (STIERLE)
HARRIS, Raymond Gordon
HART - see FORD, Joyce Arlene
HARTLEY, Christobel "Irene" ( )
HARTLEY, Myrtle Rose (ROBERTSON) [COWAN]
HARTZ - see vanROOTSELAAR, Patricia Lee
HATTON, Herbert Roy "Bert"
HAWRYLUK, Bohdan
HAYES - see COLLINS, Beryl
HEAD, Isabell Jean (RICHARDS)
HEIKEL - see VICK, Lydia Margareta
HEIKEL, Eva Marie (RAUTENSTRAUCH)
HEITRICH, Bernie
HENDERSON, Hugh A
HENNIG - see NOWOCZIN, Clara Katherine
HILLABY, Arly
HO, Nam Hoa
HOAG, Olive Montana ( )
HOCKEY, Dora Grace (CLARK)
HODGSON - see GUSTAFSON, Ingrid Elizabeth
HODGSON, Francis Allen "Frank"
HODGSON, Ingrid ( ) [WESTAD] [KRISTIANSEN]
HOF, Matthew J
HOGLUND - see DONISON, Agatha
HOMAN, Leslie Wayne
HOMMY, Blair Alexander
HORTON, Myrtle Minerva (McLEOD)
HOUSTON, Patricia Marie (VAN SCHAICK)
HOWELL, Stanley Howard
HOWEY, Melville Wesley
HOWRISH, Mike
HRISKOW, Peter Thomas
HUDSON - see RUST, Doreen
HUNT - see KOCH, Emily Marjorie
INNES - see LIGHTFOOT, Jean Evelyn
INTSCHER, Martin
ISAAC, Joseph
ISAAC, Justina (WIEBE)
ISAAC, Marie (BARTEL)
JACKSON, Harold W
JACKSON, Robert
JENTINK, Hendrik Jan
JEWITT, Zoe (COLEMAN)
JOHNS - see EDEY, Margaret May Jean
JOHNS, Lois Marlene (PALM)
JOHNSON, Harry William
JOHNSON, Kenneth Charles
JONES, Myrtle Viola ( )
JONES, Vern
JORGENSEN, Hans
JUDD, Ralston Lane
KAUFMANN, Michael John "Mike"
KAZAKAWICH, Walter
KAZAKOFF, Jordan Micheal
KEEPING, Fred
KENNEDY, Larry
KERIK, James John "Jim"
KERR, Jean Virginia (GOUCHER)
KILDAL, Olea B
KING, Emma (BRESSLER)
KIRKHAM - see BARTON, Sadie Doris
KLASSEN, Walter Leo
KLEM, David John
KLOMSTAD, Alvin Theodor
KLOTH, Frank
KLUNDER, Jan Hombertus "John"
KNIGHT, George Edward
KNOBBE, Rudolf
KNOTT, Ted
KOCH, Emily Marjorie (HUNT)
KOLOTYLO, Helen (MATIASZOW)
KONYNENBELT - see DYKSHOORN, Lamberta Fredrika
"Bertha"
KOSOWAN, Joseph
KOSSMAN, Robert
KRAHN, Tyler
KRAMPS, Joseph Gabriel
KRANTZ, Elenor (MELSNESS)
KRISTIANSEN - see GUSTAFSON, Ingrid Elizabeth
KRISTIANSEN - see HODGSON, Ingrid
KROWCHUK, Elizabeth (TARSIUK)
KRUGER, Emma Henrietta "Amy" (LUTCHER)
LA GLACE, Herbert Lee "Sticks"
LABRENTZ, Norman
LAMBERT, Rodney Alexander
LANGE, Elizabeth ( )
LaROCHE, Robert "Bob"
LASKIWSKI, Verna Alexandra "Winnie"
(NIKIPILO)
LAUGHY, Russell Sylvester
LAVER-BURGE, Brian Grant
LAWRANCE, Carton Dalton
LEARY, Robert Charles
LECKIE - see DALGLEISH, Jean Margaret
LEFEBVRE, Beverly Diane Lilianne (VEINER)
LEFEBVRE, Robert Antoine
LEGARE, Gideon Joseph "Gerry"
LEGGATT, Harold "Buster"
LEONARD, Stanley James
LESKIW, Casey Andro
LESLIE, Mary N ( )
LETENDRE, Dylan Warren
LETENDRE, Evelyn Sarah (BELCOURT)
LETENDRE, Frank
LETENDRE, Ronald
LETENDRE, Walter Harry
LIDVALL - see BATTER, Linnea "Lennie"
LIGHTFOOT, Jean Evelyn (INNES)
LOCK, Olive Clare (GOLDSMITH)
LOEWEN, Albert
LOEWEN, Margaret Iola (FRASER)
LOFGREN, Edwin Leonard
LOKSETH, Lars
LORENZ, William
LOTOSKY, Paul
LOVE, Gladys Eloise (THOMPSON) [CARSON]
LOWE, Gwilym Alex
LUKAS - see PLATZER, Anna
LUTCHER - see KRUGER, Emma Henrietta "Amy"
MacALISTER, Donald Edgar
MACIBORSKY, Edna (HAMERL)
MACK, Emma ( )
MACKLIN, George Staples
MADSEN, Anders Robert Joseph
MAGSON - see PERRON, Glena Doris
MALTZAN, Beata ( )
MARCIL - see PIVERT, Marie Anne Marguerite Jeanne
Stella
MARTENS, Jenny Lynn
MARTENS, Jerry
MAST, Joan ( )
MATHESON, John Graham
MATHESON, Viola Marjorie (BURBEE)
MATIASZOW - see KOLOTYLO, Helen
McALENEY, William Andrew
McAUGHEY, Iva Iona ( )
McBRIDE, Rooth Margery (ENGLISH)
McCORKIE, D C "Del"
McCUBBIN, Ruth (McKITTRICK)
McDONALD, Gertrude Margaret (FERGUSON)
McEWAN, Daraich Lochlan
McFARLANE, John Kenneth "Ken"
McKAY, Brenda Colleen (CLEMENTS)
McKINLEY, Terry Dale
McKITTRICK - see McCUBBIN, Ruth
McKITTRICK, Jemima (FLETT)
McKONE, Belford "Sonny"
McKONE, Janice ( )
McLEOD - see HORTON, Myrtle Minerva
McMULLEN, Robert John "Ivan"
McNAB - see BUECHNER, Jean Isabel
McNAUGHT - see PERRY, Isabel Leet
McNAUGHT, Wesley Brisbane "Breeze"
McPHEE, Ian
McQUITTY, Rose Alba (GIRARD)
MELSNESS - see KRANTZ, Elenor
MENARD - see NEWMAN, Nora Kathleen
MERCHANT, Odette Marie (DUPUY) [CHABOT]
MESERVY - see BROWN, Kimberly Jane
MEUNIER, George
MIDDLETON - see GRAHAM, Flora Mary Dunn
MILLIKEN, Richard Allen "Dick"
MOE, Arvid Emanuel
MONATH - see SMITH, Bertha "Betty"
MORAVEC, Cecil
MORRISON, Helen Annette ( )
MORRISON, Neil
MOSES, Frances
MOULDS, George Arthur
MUDRYK, Dorothy Anne (MUNRO)
MUELLER - see NOWOCZIN, Sally
MUNRO - see MUDRYK, Dorothy Anne
MUNRO, Johanna Lydia (PESTER)
NELSON, Edward George
NELSON, Morley Elwin
NEWMAN, Nora Kathleen ( ) [MENARD]
NICHOLSON, Stacey Ann
NIKIPILO - see LASKIWSKI, Verna Alexandra
NILSON, Marvin Clifford
NOREN, Sylvia Ruth ( )
NORMAN - see DANA, Dorothy B
NORMAN - see PERRON, Glena Doris
NORRIS, William Wallace
NOWOCZIN, Clara Katherine (HENNIG)
NOWOCZIN, Sally ( ) [MUELLER]
NYSTED, Walborg (BENTERUD)
O'CONNELL - see FIELD, Mary
OATWAY, Marjorie Hazel (BINKS)
OFFIN, David Ernest
OLIVER, Harold Edward
OLSTAD - see CHALMERS, Bessie Eileen
ONSTINE, Tyler Michael
OPHUS - see BUTLER, Marion
OSBERG, Irene (RYE)
OSBORNE, Elaine Eleanor (KIMBLE)
PALM - see JOHNS, Lois Marlene
PALMER, Louis (POMERLEAU)
PARKER, Barbara Ann (SANTORO)
PAZIUK, Peter
PEARSON, Donald
PEARSON, Harold C
PEEBLES, Mary ( )
PERRON, Glena Doris {MAGSON} [NORMAN]
PERRY, Bea (BANKHEAD)
PERRY, Isabel Leet (McNAUGHT)
PESTER - see MUNRO, Johanna Lydia
PETERS - see DONISON, Agatha
PETERSON - see ERICKSON, Gladys Edna
PETRUSCHUK, Nicholas "Nick"
PFAU, Ron John
PICHE - see WESTERVELT, Louise Marie Theresa
PICHE, Joseph Guy
PIEBIAK, Katarzyna "Katherine" ( )
PIPPUS, Gotthilf
PIVERT, Marie Anne Marguerite Jeanne Stella (MARCIL)
PLATZER, Anna (LUKAS)
POMERLEAU - see PALMER, Louis
POTTER, Yvonne Emma ( )
POWELL, John Thornton :Jack"
PRATT, Arleigh Bryan
PREMDAS, Jacqueline Marie
PRONOVOST, Mabel "Maisie" (FEE)
PURVES, Edith Mary (CHRISTOPHERSON)
PUSHOR, Grant Ernest
RANGE, Anneliese ( )
RAUTENSTRAUCH - see HEIKEL, Eva Marie
REATH, Violet Rita (WURTZ)
REES, Arthur
REICHERT - see SCHNEIDER, Madeline
REIMER, Edna (TOEWS)
REIMER, Lorrie
REISWIG, Irving
RICE - see TURNER, Elaine Barbara
RICHARDS - see HEAD, Isabell Jean
RICHARDSON, Dolly ( )
RIEHL, Olive (HALL)
RIPKENS - see DURDA, Trudy Sophia
ROBBINS, Thomas Howard "Tom"
ROBERTS, Ethel ( )
ROBERTS, William Currie
ROBERTSON - see DYCK, Eileen Carol
ROBERTSON - see HARTLEY, Myrtle Rose
ROBERTSON, Claude M
ROBINSON, Katheryn Jamie (CAUDRON)
ROCKARTS, Daniel Charles
RODZEWON - see DONOHUE, Eugina "Jean"
ROMKEY - see CAMPBELL, Doris Gyda
ROSALES, Pacita "Paz"
ROSS, David John
ROULEAU - see BODETTE, Mary Rose "Toots"
ROWLAND, Glen Roy Ross
ROY, Ralph Eugene
RUHL, Thora Augusta ( )
RUST, Doreen (HUDSON)
RYE - see OSBERG, Irene
RYNSBURGER, Janny (Van DIEN)
SAMPSON, Robert Stuart
SAMUELSON, Orvin George
SANTORO - see PARKER, Barbara Ann
SASK, Jean Crystal (WILLARD)
SATHER, Edwin Jalmer
SATHER, Mary (FAREWELL)
SAWATZKY, Brent Cameron
SCHAU, Edna ( )
SCHMIDT, Alfred F "Al"
SCHMIDT, Hanns Simon
SCHMITKE - see GRAMS, Anna
SCHNEIDER, Madeline (REICHERT)
SCHULTZ, Lydia (TEWS)
SCHWEITZER, David John
SCHWEITZER, James Dean "Jay"
SCHWEITZER, Valentine William
SCHWEMLER, Nathalia Jeanette (SOISETH)
SCHWEMLER, Nathalia Jeanette (TUNKE)
SEGATE, Jeremy Joseph
SHARKO, Mary ( )
SHERIDAN, Randy
SHIELDS, Elizabeth "Betty"
SHOFNER, John Alexander
SHUM, Choi Ling ( )
SILVANIUK, Nick
SINCLAIR, Bill
SINCLAIR, Gordon
SINKEVICH, Justin
SINN, Michael
SKOWORODKO, William "Bill"
SKREPNEK, John
SLATER - see WRIGHT, Alma Jenny Mae
SLOAT, Henry
SMITH, Bertha "Betty" (MONATH)
SMITH, James Edward
SMITH, Thomas Edgar
SNIDER, Douglas G
SOISETH - see SCHWEMLER, Nathalia Jeanette
SOPKOW, Lina ( )
SOUTHWELL, Alfred Andrew "Fred"
SPENCER - see STARKEY, Doris Elizabeth
SPRY, Walter Louis George
ST ARNEAULT, Emily Marie ( )
STANLEY, Ronald M
STARKEY, Doris Elizabeth (SPENCER)
STEINKE, Martha Mildred (GOUCHEY)
STENVALL, Caroline Victoria (EVASKEVICH)
STIERLE - see HARRIS, Olga Martha
STOEHR, Adolf
STONEBURGH - see BAILEY, Mazette "Beryl"
STOREY - see WICKS, Marjorie Isabel
STUDENT, Harry
STURROCK - see SUDHOFF, Annie
SUDHOFF, Annie (STURROCK)
SUDNIK, Tina ( )
SULEY, Natasha
SVISDAHL, Iver Andrew "Andy"
SWANSON - see FORSETH, Esther Joyce
SYCHLA - see WEBER, Henriette Natalia
TARSIUK - see KROWCHUK, Elizabeth
TATE, Thomas William
TAYLOR, William James "Bill"
TEWS - see SCHULTZ, Lydia
THIBEAULT, Gerard "Gerry"
THIESSEN, Dora ( )
THIESSEN, Irvin
THOMPSON - see LOVE, Gladys Eloise
THOMPSON, Ross Munroe
THOMSEN - see WARDILL, Lydia Rosa
TISSINGTON, Wallace Ivan "Wally"
TOEWS - see REIMER, Edna
TOLLEY - see BROWN, Myrtle Itha
TONE - see BROWN, Pansy Lillian
TONE, Vinson William "Vince"
TRACY - see HAGLUND, Lela Olavine
TRARBACK, Donald
TSCHETTER, Jacob "Jake"
TUNKE - see SCHWEMLER, Nathalia Jeanette
TURNER, Elaine Barbara (RICE)
TURNER, Susana "Susan" (WALL)
UHRYN, Lawrence Daniel
ULMER, Walter Henry Martin
UNDERWOOD, Winston Maurice
UNGSTAD - see CLARKE, Olga Pauline
URNESS - see FORTIER, Pearl Ruth
van der KAA, Henry
Van DIEN - see RYNSBURGER, Janny
VAN PATTEN, Wilson M
VAN SCHAICK - see HOUSTON, Patricia Marie
vanROOTSELAAR, Patricia Lee (HARTZ)
VEINER - see LEFEBVRE, Beverly Diane Lilianne
VICK, Lydia Margareta (HEIKEL) [DONISON]
VICKERSON, Larry Newton
VIGEN, Clifford
VISSCHER, John Leonard
VOLDEN, Hans
WAGNER, Fred
WALKER, Lois ( )
WALL - see TURNER, Susana "Susan"
WALTERS, Henry
WARD, Gerald Leslie "Gerry"
WARDILL, Lydia Rosa (THOMSEN)
WATSON, Edwina Marion (WOOD)
WATSON, Margaret Christine ( )
WATTS, Selina (CAVE-BROWNE)
WEBER, Henriette Natalia (SYCHLA)
WEISS, Karl
WERBOWESKI, John
WERNER, Herbert E "Herb"
WESTAD - see GUSTAFSON, Ingrid Elizabeth
WESTAD - see HODGSON, Ingrid
WESTERVELT, Louise Marie Theresa (PICHE)
WHITFORD, Riley Roderick
WHITTAKER, Barry Hamilton
WICKS, Marjorie Isabel (STOREY)
WIEBE - see ISAAC, Justina
WIEBE - see WILSON, Susan Donna
WILD, John H
WILKINS, Marjorie Anne ( )
WILLARD - see SASK, Jean Crystal
WILLIS, Karman Anne
WILSON, Susan Donna (WIEBE)
WINIA, Jenny "Jantje" (BREEMER)
WOLOCHYN, Otis Wayne
WOOD - see WATSON, Edwina Marion
WRIGHT - see AYRE, Agnes Irene
WRIGHT, Allan Leslie
WRIGHT, Alma Jenny Mae (SLATER)
WURTZ - see REATH, Violet Rita
WURTZ, Katie Kathleen ( )
YULE, Lillian Alma ( )
ZAHARA, Alexander William "Sandy"
ZARACHOWICZ, Darlene May (HANNAS)
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