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Anglican Church of Canada. Parish of Athabasca

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The Anglican Church mission in Athabasca began in 1893 when Magnus Brown was hired to erect buildings for Bishop Richard Young. The log church of St. Matthew's was completed in 1896. Bishop Young brought with him a hand operated printing press and with it printed a hymn book (1901) and the Gospel of St. John (1897) in Cree syllabics. In 1908 Rev. Moxhay used this same press to print Athabasca's first newspaper, The Northern Light. In 1907 the construction of a new church, All Saints', was begun. In 1913 Rev. J.W.McDonald reported that 6 churches in outlying areas had been built. At one time there were 16 Anglican churches in the Parish of Athabasca. In 2005 the Anglican Parish consists of All Saints' and St. Alban's in South Athabasca. The rest of the Parish churches have been deconsecrated or moved into the sphere of other parishes. To enable teenage boys and girls, particularly those who lived in the rural areas, to continue their education the Anglican Church built Bishop Young Hostel for boys in 1938 and St. Mary's Hostel for girls in 1941. These hostels remained open into the 1960s.

Appleby, James William

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James William Appleby was born in 1910 in Edmonton to Ernest William Appleby and Fanny Mary (Tench). His father died in 1918 and his mother moved to the Smoky Lake area to teach school and raise her three sons. James graduated from normal school in 1929 and taught in the Smoky Lake area for 3 years. In 1933 the family moved to Baptiste Lake. Jim continued to teach until he joined the army. After the war he never went back to teaching. He looked after his mother and the Appleby Store, and raised sheep. He never married. He died in 1995.

Appleby, John Ernest

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John, the eldest of four sons, was born in 1905 in Parys, Orange River Colony, South Africa, to Ernest William Appleby and Fanny Mary (Tench). Three years later they returned to England and then emigrated to Canada. In 1909 they homesteaded at Stocks, AB northeast of Colinton. In 1917 they moved to Victoria, B.C. Their sons were: John (Jack), Rex (died in 1907), James and Frank. In 1918 Ernest died in a war munitions factory accident. Fanny and her sons returned to AB where she taught school. In 1933 she came with her sons to the Baptiste Lake district. Jack became a school teacher and married Nancy Maxine in 1930. They had one child :Edward John (Ted). Jack started mink farming and commercial fishing. In 1947 he began teaching at Edwin Parr High School in Athabasca. He wrote poetry, some of which was published. He was studying for his MA degree when he died of a coronary attack in 1963.

Armfelt, Hans

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Hans Armfelt was born July 29, 1905 in the Copenhagen suburb of Hellerup, Denmark. He immigrated to Canada in 1928, eventually settling in the Baptiste Lake area near Athabasca, Alberta. He worked as a farm hand, soldier, painter, house builder, cook, general store clerk, hunter-trapper, and farmer. He married Helen Lynk in 1933 and they raised six children. Hans died in 1985 and Helen died in 2001.

Armstrong, Robert E.

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Robert Armstrong was born in Sault Ste. Marie, ON in 1921. He joined the navy in 1940 and met Winnifred Groomsbridge of Clyde, AB, who was with the WRENs, in Halifax. They married in 1945 and had four children: John, Margaret, David and Barbara. Bob sold insurance in Trenton,On., Clyde and Calgary before moving to Athabasca in 1962. They retired in 1988. Winnifred died in 1999.

Ashacker, Barbara

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Barbara Ashacker is the daughter of Hubert Thorne and his wife Alvah (Lewis). She was born [1932]. She married Harold Ashacker and they had two daughters. They were divorced. Barbara became a school teacher and taught in Athabasca for a number of years before moving to Nanaimo.

Aspen Regional Health Authority #11

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In 1994, the Government of Alberta introduced a policy of regionalization of health care in the province by creating regional health authorities. The Aspen Regional Health Authority #11 serves a population of approximately 81,000 people and encompasses an area of approximately 36,000 sq. km from the immediate north of the City of Edmonton north to Calling Lake and as far east and west as Fox Creek and the Village of Boyle. Aspen is serviced by 8 acute care facilities, 7 long-term care facilities, and 13 Community Care and Population Health offices.

Aspen Ridge Christian Fellowship

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In the summer of 1952 Jack and Ruth Blizzard moved from Pangman, SK to Athabasca planning to establish an Apostolic Church of Pentecost. They lived in a small trailer on Ralph and Maud Ball's property near Baptiste Lake, AB. In September 1953 a portable church was set up on 48th Street in Athabasca just south of the current Buy-Low Food Store. In 1956 a new church was built on 47th Avenue. In 1957 the Blizzards and their sons Leslie and Frank, who were born in Athabasca, moved to the USA. The following couples then served as pastors: Mel and Greta Taylor, Frank Nelson and family, Don Metz, Carl and Ruth Nagel, Albin and Alice Liknes, Carl and Ruth Weiler and Conrad Heistad. In 1981 Muriel Olson donated land two miles south of town and a cedar log church was built there. It was officially dedicated on October 24, 1982 as Aspen Ridge Christian Fellowship. Pastors there included Clint and Diane Cornelius, Norman and Sybil Walker, and Harvey and Stephanie Matson.

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