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Aldridge, W. H.

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Walter Hull Aldridge, b.1867, was a Canadian mining engineer employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway

Alexander, William A.

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William A. (Bill) Alexander, 1909-1973, was a teacher and school principal at Banff, Alberta, Canada for forty years. He retired in 1969

Allan, Mary

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Mary Thomson Allan, 1913-1989, was a poet and homemaker at Banff and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Mary Thomson was born in Banff, where her mother, Jeannie Thomson, ran the Cave and Basin Teahouse. In the 1980s Allan was involved in the Save the Cave and Basin Committee. Allan wrote poetry starting in the 1930s. A number of her poems were published in periodicals and anthologies during the 1950s to 1970s, and a selection, titled "The Inward Trail", was published posthumously in 1992. "Banff Collections and Recollections" was in process when Allan died and editing was continued by her daughter, Jannis Hare.

Allen, Ruth

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The Allens of Boston, Massachusetts were personal friends of Col. Philip Moore of Banff. Ruth Allen, 1885-1988, and her brother, Herbert S. Allen, made several early trips in the Canadian Rockies with the Brewsters and Phil Moore. Her diverse interests included art, gardening, photography, travel and horsemanship.

Allen, Stanley Vincent

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Stanley Vincent Allen was a driver for the Brewster Transport Company in the 1930s.

Bagley, Ray

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Raphel (Ray) Bagley, 1880-1973, was a rancher and guide in the Red Deer, Onion Lake and Coleman districts of Alberta, Canada. Bagley came to the Lacombe district of Alberta in 1892. He homesteaded and ranched while guiding with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and conducting private trail rides throughout the southern Rockies from Waterton Lakes National Park to Banff National Park. Bagley wrote poems on western and trail riding themes, self-publishing a volume titled "Those Other Days" in 1969.

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