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Macintyre, Alexander Smeaton

Alexander Smeaton Macintyre, 1888-?, served with the 19th Alberta Dragoons in Alberta before the First World War and enlisted in the 8th Field Ambulance in 1916. He was discharged in 1919.

Michelet, Alexandre

Alexandre (Alex) Michelet was born at Bourg-en-Bresse, France, on June 27, 1885 and was a journalist, translator and writer. He arrived at Edmonton, Alberta, in 1905 with his family, including Magali Michelet, writer and co-editor with him at <em>L'Union</em>. In 1912 they took the 'northern trail' to La Calmette, near Legal, where Alex was initially a homesteader. He then returned to Edmonton, where he practiced journalism as editor at <em>Courrier de l'Ouest</em>, than at <em>L'Union</em>. After the First World War, due to his command of both English and French, he worked as translator in Washington. He was then placed in charge of the translating department of the International Labour Office at the new League of Nations in Geneva. In 1940, Alex Michelet established and ran a farm in the region of Lot-et-Garonne, France, until 1945. He died there in 1979.

Causley, Alfred

Alfred "Alf" Causley, 1874-1949, was a Barr Colonist who homesteaded near Lloydminster, Saskatchewan in the early 1900s. In 1919 he married Clara Elizabeth Williams, 1894-1983, who was born in England and came to Lloydminster with her family in 1904. She worked as a nursemaid and travelled to both Edmonton and Winnipeg before she married Alf. Alf worked with the CNR as a pumpman for eleven years in North Battleford before being transferred to the Dundurn District. In 1940 he retired to Saskatoon. The Causley's had two children, a girl and a boy.

Lynch-Staunton, Alfred

Alfred Hardwick Lynch-Staunton, 1860-1932, originally from Hamilton, Ontario, came to Fort Macleod, Alberta in 1877 to join the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP). After his retirement in 1880 he started the first ranch in the Pincher Creek area with James Bruneau and Issac May. Later he homesteaded west of the town. He married Sarah Mary Blake in 1890, and they had five children, Victoria (Cox), Franda (Henderson), Francis Corbett, John Charles, 1903-?, and D'Arcy. Alfred's brother, Charles, moved from Ontario to the Lundbreck district in 1896. In 1905 he married Emma Laire Boyes, ?-1949 and they had one son, Hardwick. They ranched in Lundbreck.

Blyth, Alfred

Edmonton photographer Alfred Blyth was born in 1901 in Ayrshire, Scotland. He came to Edmonton, Alberta with his widowed mother and siblings in ca. 1913. In 1916 he became a darkroom technician for the commercial photographers Byron and May. After McDermid Studios bought Byron and May Co. in 1917, Blyth continued to work in the studio until 1928. Blyth then opened his own studios, Alfred Blyth Studios, and operated the studio until he retired in 1970. Alfred Blyth also worked in commercial and news photography, working for newspapers such as the Edmonton Journal and the Edmonton Bulletin in the 1940's. He also worked as a photographer for the Edmonton Exhibition and Calgary Stampede. In addition, Blyth shot newsreel features for Fox Movietone News and filmed the first session of the Alberta Legislature for the Aberhart administration. Blyth also served as the official photographer for the Royal visits of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1951, and Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1959. Throughout his career, Blyth received numerous awards for his photography including a Performing and Creative Arts award by the City of Edmonton in 1974 and the Alberta Achievement Award by Premier Peter Lougheed in 1976. Alfred Blyth passed away in 1980.

Driscoll, Alfred

Alfred Driscoll was born July 2, 1865 in Aylmer, Quebec. He was educated at the Aylmer Academy, Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario and at the University of Toronto. He first came west in 1883, surveying aboriginal lands; he was engaged in survey work when the Riel resistance broke out in 1885 and joined a troop of scouts commanded by Captain J.S. Dennis. After becoming a Dominion Land Surveyor in 1887 and spending a few years working on the prairies, Alfred became head of surveys in British Columbia for an area from Revelstoke to New Westminster. In 1893, he was a member of a Canadian party surveying the Alaskan boundary and was later a member of the International Boundary Commission. In 1893, he opened a survey office in Edmonton, North West Territories. He was an engineer in connection with the construction of bridges over an arm of the Fraser River in British Columbia. In1898, Alfred married Margaret Ryder in Chilliwack, British Columbia; they had three children: Eleanor, Aileen Charlotte and Robert Henry (Bob). In 1899, he again worked as a Dominion Land Surveyor as District Surveyor for Edmonton. In 1906, he entered into a partnership with Richard H. Knight, and their surveying and consulting engineering company was known as Driscoll and Knight; the partnership continued until Knight's death in 1931. From 1916 to 1917, Driscoll was superintendent of Jasper National Park. Alfred Driscoll died April 11, 1932.

Dreger, Alfred F.

Alfred F. Dreger was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on March 26, 1887. In 1893 his family immigrated to Canada and took up a homestead seven miles southeast of Strathcona, North-West Territories, now Edmonton, Alberta. At the age of fifteen Dreger worked in Strathcona in a lumberyard, and later he sold shares for the Union Oil Company in Edmonton. In 1914 Dreger married Alice Mae MacKellop, who was born in Nova Scotia in 1890.

Griffiths, Alfred Joseph

Born in England in 1858, Alfred Joseph Griffiths, his wife, Annie, and their family emigrated to Canada on the Emperor of Ireland in 1909. They came with their family, Cudalin (1890), Irene H. (1895), Viola J. (1897), John Norman (1898) and Alfred L.G. (1908) to the Toronto area. In about 1911, the family moved to Medicine Hat, where Mr. Griffiths was employed as an engineer at the Ogilvie Flour Mill. His son, John Norman enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in May, 1916 and was killed in October, 1917. He is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium. His name is on the war memorial in Riverside Park. Shortly after, the family appear to have moved on as they were gone from Medicine Hat by 1923.

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