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Adair, Robert Nichols

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  • 1922-2007

Robert Nichols Adair, 1922-2007, was born in Maysville, Kentucky, USA. He was educated at the Kentucky Military Institute and Cornell University. He started in the oil industry in Texas in 1946 and moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1950. He worked for Stanolind Oil and Pathfinder Oil and Gas before forming his own companies, R.N. Adair Oil Management and Zorayda Oil Company. He started writing the R. Adair Oil Memorandum (a weekly publication) for a client in 1964 and published it until his death in 2007.

Adams, Alice Murdoch

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Alice Telford Murdoch, 1908-1997 , was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and in 1911 moved with her family to Cranbrook, British Columbia. During First World War the family returned to Scotland where she began training as a dancer. The family later moved to Calgary, Alberta and Alice entered the Jean Gauld School of Dancing, eventually becoming assistant director. In 1927 she opened her own school, which after a number of moves was established at 14 Avenue and 4 Street SW. In 1928 she took extra training in New York, USA, and later studied in many other American and European cities. She taught in numerous southern Alberta communities and opened a branch school in Lethbridge under Lola Strand. Her Calgary school performed annual revues at the Grand Theatre until 1949, and for several years her choreographed dances were performed prior to the feature at the Capitol Theatre. During the Second World War she choreographed one of five "concert parties" that toured Alberta military camps. For over 40 years she choreographed the President's Ball for the Rotary Club of Calgary. She married William Adams, ?-1978, and they had three children, Ryan, Sharon (LaRiviere) and Vicki Adams (Willis), 1950- . Alice and Bill operated Adams Electric in Banff for many years. In 1949 Alice turned her school over to her sister, Jean Murdoch Simpson. For further information see "Alice Murdoch Adams" in Building a Province : 60 Albeta Lives / Brian Brennan. -- Calgary : 2000, p. 109-111.

Adams, Annie

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The Adams family came to Alberta ca. 1903 and farmed in the Swalwell and Cochrane districts. Annie Adams and her husband had at least four children, Annie, Nancy, Etta and Ida. Nancy, 1884-1971, married Walter David Patterson. Etta married William L. Lockhart. Ida married Roy Bishop. William's sister, Ardella May Lockhart, married George Rutter Austin. They had at least one child, Ronald George Austin, 1941- . R.G. Austin later changed his name to Keath Austen.

Aldrich, Robert

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Robert Aldrich, ?-1966, came to Calgary in the early 1900s and worked at the Calgary Sanatorium, Alberta Liquor Control Board and Marshall Knop Ltd. He married Olive Vickery (?), ca. 1883-1974, and they had at least one son, William Vickery "Vic", 1907-1986.

Alexander, Alexander

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Alexander Alexander, 1863-1940, was born in Huntley, Aberdeen, Scotland. He came to Canada and in 1885 joined the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP). In 1890 he married Margaret Louden, ?-1934. He worked as a blacksmith at Maple Creek, Saskatchewan for a few years, then rejoined the NWMP in 1894. He served until 1922. Alexander and his wife had six children, John H., Robert G., James A., Thomas A., Mrs. Horsburgh, and Mary (Faulkes).

Alexander, Robert

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Robert Lowry Alexander, 1845-1917, was born near Ottawa, Ontario. He married Mary Coulter, 1853-1943, and they had seven daughters, Jane Ann Roxana, Mary Idela Winnifred (Adam), Errella Laurena Leona, Effie Evelyn Viola, Elma Olive Branch (Roach), Margaret Irene Hamilton and Ottillie Dorothye Love (Roach). The family moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1883 and Robert was the town's first secretary-treasurer. He was a Dominion immigration inspector, 1886-1896, being stationed at Moose Jaw, Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta. He then ranched south of Calgary until he retired to the city, ca. 1912. Elma married Leslie Palmer Roach, 1892-1976, who, after her death, married her sister Dorothye. There were three children, Robert, Richard and Evelyn (Dobbs).

Alger, Ross P.

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Ross P. Alger, 1921-1992, was born in Prelate, Saskatchewan. He moved to Calgary, Alberta in the 1930s and served in the air force in the Second World War. He became an accountant and helped found RGO Office Products. He was chairman of the Calgary School Board, President of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, 1970-1971, and Mayor of Calgary, 1977-1980. He and his wife, Lois, had three children, Frances, Libby and Gordon.

Allan, Alexander

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Alexander Allan, 1857-1927, was born in Bucksburn, Scotland, emigrated to Canada in 1880, and came to Calgary, Alberta in 1884 where he opened a dry goods business in partnership with Andrew Rankin. Alexander was an alderman in 1887, customs collector from 1901 to 1911, member of the School and Hospitals Boards and member of Knox United Church. He married Mary Jane Short, 1857-1950, in 1885 and they had two children, Ida Nellie (Graves), 1888-1986, and Elwin Hamilton Wyness, 1886-?. For further information see "Rankin & Allan : Dry Goods Merchants" in Eye on the Future : Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900 / Henry C. Klassen. -- Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2002, p. 105-107.

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