Hugh armstrong robinson biography of alberta
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Pioneer Profiles : L
Lacombe, Father Albert, OMI
(see full Pioneer Profile for Father Albert Lacombe)
Father Lacombe, son of Albert and Agatha Duhamel Lacombe, was born February 28, 1822 in St. Sulspice PQ. Educated at L'Assumption College and ordained in 1849 he accompanied the Hudson's Bay Brigade to Edmonton in 1852. He filed for homestead rights and established a mission in the Calgary area around 1865. He helped convince the local Indians that the CPR railway was not a threat to their way of life and thus a great deal of bloodshed was avoided. Two towns in Alberta were named after him, Lacombe and St. Albert.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
2004 Addendum. Ref: Golden Jubilee of the Lacombe Home.
La Feves,
Mr. La Feves came to the Pincher Creek area around 1883.
2004 Addendum. Ref: History of the Early Days of Pincher Creek p. 36.
La Nauze, Thomas Story
Thomas La Nauze, born in 1847 at Melund Ireland, earned a B.A. at a College in Dublin. After li
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Past Presidents
Presidents of the University of Alberta Alumni Association
A.E. Ottewell
1915-16 / 1917-18
Albert Edward Ottewell, '12 BA, '15 MA, was born November 21, 1882, in Edmonton. He served as first editor-in-chief (1910-11) of The Gateway and president of the Students' Union (1911-12). In recognition of his academic achievements, in 1912 Ottewell was the first recipient of the Chancellor's Gold Medal. That same year, he joined the Department of Extension as its secretary. He held this position until being named the University's registrar in 1928, a post he would hold until 1946. Over the course of his career at the University of Alberta, Ottewell served as a founding member of the Collegium Agricalorum, first chairman of the lärjunge Committee for University Residences, and president of the Alma Mater Committee. In the wider community, he was a member of the Edmonton School Board and served as its chairman in 1927. He was also a member and president of the Alberta
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If we have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of a giant: Frank Henry Ellis and Canada’s Flying Heritage
Hello and… And yes, my slightly anal reading friend, you are quite right. 28 July 1951 was a Saturday, not a Sunday, but what can yours truly tell you? Sunday Sun Magazine, a supplement of The Sunday Sun, the weekend edition of the daily newspaper The Vancouver Sun of Vancouver, British Columbia, was seemingly published on a Saturday – at least on that occasion. Go figure.
Again, hello and welcome to the wonderful world of aeronautics and astronautics and, more specifically, the 200th topic (!) explored in our blog / bulletin / thingee. I have the uncontained pleasure of bringing to your attention, your undivided attention of course, a gentleman who was in all likelihood Canada’s first aviation historian, an amateur one as were / are / probably will be most other Canadian aviation historians, true enough, but still an important figure in the preservation