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Jasper Yellowhead Museum and Archives

1980 Jasper High School Reunion

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  • 1980

In 1980 the Jasper High School held a high school reunion which was to include everyone who had ever graduated from Jasper High School, beginning with the year 1914, all the way to 1980. The idea for this event, as well as some of the funding, came from the Provincial Government of Alberta, as 1980 was the province's 75th anniversary. The Province had a program entitled "Homecoming 1980" which was run by Travel Alberta. Locally various committees made of volunteers were put into place to set up this event with expectations of 2000 to 2500 attendees. Two major components of the project were undertaken. Firstly there was a quilt with the names of all Jasper High School graduates, and secondly a large photo album containing pictures of graduates and their families from past and present. There were also many clippings from newspapers compiled which were then photocopied.

Abram, Edward (Ted) Bridge

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Ted Abram was a young adventurer from England searching for gold. He worked for a while in a sawmill as prospecting never yielded much gold. He went on a prospecting trip with his partners, Mort and Bill Teare. The group ended up in Tete Jaune Cache were Abram worked as a drayman and mining recorder. He married his wife Millicent in 1922 who came from England also. The couple homesteaded on the banks of the Fraser River in hopes that a highway from Kamloops to the Alberta border would open up the Yellowhead Pass. They eventually sold their 17.9 acres in 1945. In 1969, Ted Abram attended the opening ceremonies of the Yellowhead Highway where a section of it ran right through the old Abram homestead. The couple was also memebrs of the United Church choir in Jasper. Ted passed away at Powell River, B.C. at the age of 86. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, Millicent, two daughters Peggy and Nora, and a son, George.

Akeley, Mary Jobe

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Mary Lenore Jobe was born on January 29, 1878 in Tappan, Ohio to Richard Watson Jobe and Sarah Jane Pittis. Mary had one sister. In 1897, Mary graduated from Scio College in Alliance, Ohio with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. She went on to teach at several colleges. She later finished a Master's degree in English and American history from Columbia University in 1909. An athletic girl, Mary Jobe also yearned to be and explorer. She went on many climbs and backcountry trips in the Canadian Rockies and Jasper area, including some with Curly Philips as guide. Mary later married Carl Akeley on October 18, 1924. She went to Africa with him on his fifth expedition. On July 19, 1966 Mary died at a nursing home in Mystic, Connecticut. For more information see the book "Off the Beaten Track" by Cyndi Smith.

Albright, Jim

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Jim Albright was born in 1921, in Calgary (AB). Jim worked as a fire look out man at the Palisades and Signal Mountain for three summers (1967-1969). IN the mid 1960s, he worked for Standard General, on the construction of the Yellowhead Highway, west of Jasper. He also worked for Seton General Hospital in Maintenance (1980). In the late 1990s, Albright moved back to Calgary. He passed away on March 19, 2000

Alexander, Ken

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Ken Alexander and his wife Elaine lived in Jasper Alberta with their son Sydney. They resided at 741 Patricia Street. Ken was employed by the CNR and also worked as a carpenter. Elaine was a hard worker for the St. Mary & St. George Anglican Church ladies group. They retired to Hinton, Alberta. Ken Alexander died on Nov 4, 1968.

Allen, Art

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Arthur J. Allen was born in England in 1905. He was a guide and outfitter in the Jasper area from the early 1920's to the late 1950's. He also worked for the Jasper National Park Wardens Service (1959-1971), building many of the warden's cabins on the North Boundary and South Boundary trails.

Allen, Harold

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Harold Allen was born in Truro, Nova Scotia (1883). His father, Richard, a hatter by trade from Droyelsden, Lancashire, immigrated to Canada to train apprentices. The Allen family returned to England in 1891, where Harold completed school at age 14 (1897). Allen apprenticed with the railroad until 1904. He lived briefly in Australia, before moving to Calgary, Alberta where he worked as engineer at Holy Cross Hospital [1910-1912]. He then travelled to Argentina where he worked on steam boilers. Upon the outbreak of World War I, Harold Allen returned to Calgary and enlisted in the army, but their quota was full. He continued on to Edmonton, Alberta and then to Jasper, Alberta, where he was able to enlist with the 49th Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. He was shipped to England, and served in France until he received a medical discharge (1916). Upon his return to Canada he worked as an engineer in laundry in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and later, at the Tranquille Sanatorium in Kamloops, BC. In 1921 he took another job as laundry engineer and postmaster at Lejac Indian School near Fort Fraser, BC until 1933 when he moved to Vancouver, BC. Harold Allen worked in a number of saw and shingle mills as well as at the Royal City Cannery and St. Vincent's Hospital. Allen died in 1953, in Burnaby, BC after a three year illness.

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