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Robertson United Church was formed in Edmonton in 1925 upon the creation of The United Church of Canada through the union of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational denominations. The origin of the congregation is from Robertson Methodist Church which was established in 1909 and which joined in union in 1925 to become Robertson United Church.

Robertson United Church ceased to exist in 1971 upon amalgamation with Wesley United Church to form Robertson-Wesley United Church.

Carrie May Wooster attended the Albany Hospital Training School for Nurses in Albany, New York, and graduated circa (ca.) 1909.

She married J.D. (John Donald) Robertson (1881-1933), an engineer from Alberta, in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1914. He later served as Deputy Minister of Public Works for the Province of Alberta.

Carrie M. Robertson died in Edmonton in 1972.

Frederic Beverly Robertson was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1911. He was the grandson of Walter Scott Robinson (1841-1915), the first sheriff of the Judicial District of Edmonton. After his marriage in 1939, he lived in North Battleford, Saskatchewan but returned to Edmonton in 1944. He was the manager of the Feed Division of the Swift Canadian Company in Edmonton and was the founding president of Western Brand Products. He also served as the president of the Alberta Division of the Canadian Feed Manufacturers Association. He later retired to Kelowna, British Columbia.

He married Norma Foley (1913-2013) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1939, and together they had three children: Lynn (Neufeld), Robert, and John. He died in Kelowna in 2005.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1828, Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Robertson-Ross came to Canada in 1869 to serve as the Adjutant-General of the Militia of the Government of Canada.

In 1872, Col. Robertson-Ross surveyed the Canadian Northwest for the purpose of determining and reporting to the Government of Canada on the future formation of an organization dedicated to law and justice. The results of his summaries contributed to the formation of the North West Mounted Police in 1873. He returned to England in 1873 and served there and in Scotland until his retirement in 1880.

He married Amelia Ann Maynard in 1851, and they had at least one son. He died in France in 1883.

Robertson United Church was formed in Edmonton in1925 upon the creation of The United Church of Canada through the union of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational denominations. The origin of the congregation is from Robertson Methodist Church which was established in 1909 and which joined in union in 1925 to become Robertson United Church.

Wesley United Church was established in 1925 upon the creation of The United Church of Canada. The origin of the congregation is from the Wesley Methodist Church that was established in Edmonton in 1907.

Robertson-Wesley United Church was established in 1971 upon the amalgamation of the congregations of Robertson United Church and Wesley United Church. The church building is currently located on 102 Avenue and 123 Street in Edmonton.

Esther Robins was a nurse at Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary in her early career. For over 25 years her volunteer work included medical and child rescue work and Alberta's provincial involvement in international cancer patient support program, CanSurmount. Robins was active in introducing CanSurmount to the field in Western Canada and Ontario. She undertook this work while battling cancer herself. Her strong commitment to community service was recognized by many awards including her citation at the Jewish National Fund Negev dinner (1981), Canadian Medical Association Medal of Honour (1982), Order of Canada (1985), and Alberta Order of Excellence (1986).

Elizabeth Gladys Stiff was born in 1899. She married John L. Robinson (1890-1953) in 1936; he later served as the Social Credit Member of the Legislative Assembly for Medicine Hat (1935-1953) and the Minister of Industries and Labour (1948-1953).

After his death, she won the provincial byelection in 1953 to replace him as the Social Credit Member of the Legislative Assembly for Medicine Hat. She was re-elected in 1955 and 1959.

She died in Medicine Hat in 1960 while still holding office.

Hilda Mary Robinson (Stanier) was born in Yorkshire, England in 1909.

She was a librarian for multiple Edmonton institutions, including Concordia College and the University of Alberta, and a volunteer for several organizations of local and national scope including the Library Association of Alberta, Edmonton Public Library, the Royal Canadian Legion, and the Monarchist League of Edmonton. She also served as the archivist for Concordia College. Hilda Robinson was also a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force.

Hilda Mary Robinson died in 2003 and was buried in Northern Lights Cemetery in Edmonton.

John Lyle Robinson was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1890. He received his early education in Ireland and earned a teaching certificate. He came to Alberta in 1913 and taught in schools near Lacombe. Taking up a homestead in 1916, he continued to farm and teach until 1929, when he left Alberta to attend the Palmer School of Chiropractic. Upon graduation in 1931, he returned to Alberta, where he opened a chiropractic practice in Medicine Hat. He was accredited by the Alberta Chiropractic Board in 1932. He married Elizabeth Stiff (1899-1960) in 1936.

He was elected as a Social Credit MLA in 1935 for the Medicine Hat electoral district. He served as Minister of Industries and Labour (1948-1953).

He died in office in 1953.

Leslie May Robinson completed her Master of Arts degree at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta in about 1981. Her thesis was entitled "Agrarian reformers: women and the farm movement in Alberta, 1909-1925." She later lived in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Phyllis Robinson graduated from the Calgary General Hospital School of Nursing in 1951. She received her certificate in Teaching and Supervision from the University of Toronto School of Nursing in 1955. She then returned to work at the Calgary General Hospital (CHP), until, under the encouragement of Gertrude Hall, Robinson began her studies for her BScN at the University of British Columbia (1961-1965), and her MN at the University of Washington (1966-1972). Robinson served as a Clinical Instructor in Obstetrics and later, Director of the School of Nursing at the CGH. When the school closed in 1974, she transferred to the University of Calgary as Assistant, then Associate, Professor of Nursing, where she remained until 1979. From 1980-1985 she was Assistant Executive Director, Patient Care Services, Salvation Army Grace Hospital in Calgary. Phyllis Robinson died January 14, 2017.

The Robson Lake Mutual Telephone Company was incorporated on December 1, 1936 and served the area south of Drumheller, Alberta within Township 28, Range 20, West of the 4th Meridian (28-20-W4). The Robson Lake Mutual Telephone Company integrated with Alberta Government Telephones on October 5, 1969.

The Telephone Company was officially dissolved in June 1971.

James Rochester was born at Rouses Point, New York in 1813. He came with his family to Bytown (later Ottawa), Ontario in 1827. He operated a brewery until his retirement in the late 1880s.

He married Ann Frost (1813-1900), and together they had six children: Martha (Pennock) (1843-1892), Anna Maria (1845-1846), Harriet Augusta (Anderson) (1845-1922), James Edward (1847-1848), Barbara Elizabeth (1848-1849), and Margaret Ann (Dunham) (1850-1932).

He died in 1890 in Ottawa, Ontario.

The Rochfort Bridge branch of the Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary was originally chartered on October 1, 1936 and was affiliated with the Rochfort Bridge Branch #125, Alberta-Northwest Territories Command.

The Auxiliary first began meeting in the homes of its members before moving to The Hut, a small building in Rochfort Bridge. When The Hut burned down in 1967, the Rochfort Bridge Legion and Auxiliary bought a building and turned it into the Legion Hall, where the groups continued to meet until disbandment.

The Ladies Auxiliary engaged in several community activities including socials, teas, bake sales, Remembrance Day dances, and annual picnics. During the Second World War, the Auxiliary knit socks and sweaters for service members, held fundraisers for the war effort, and held events to welcome war brides into the community.

After the war, the Auxiliary continued its role in the community and took on the responsibility of gathering photographs and oral histories for the military section of the Rochfort Bridge local history, The Lantern Era. Other activities undertaken in this period include hosting bridal showers for families of members, organizing food drives each Christmas, and supporting community members in times of bereavement.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Auxiliary membership drastically dropped as older members died or moved away and were not replaced. The Ladies Auxiliary eventually surrendered its charter in 2005, followed by the Legion Branch in 2008. The Legion Hall was sold to a private owner shortly afterward.

Conrad Rochon had a working relationship with the Canadian Folk Music Society (CFMS) of Queen's University, when the recordings were made. There is no other biographical information available.

Conrad Rochon avait des relations de travail avec la Société canadienne de musique folklorique, division du folklore, à la date où les enregistrements ont été faits. Il n'y a pas d'autres renseignements biographiques.

Established in 1976 and based in Calgary, Alberta, this publisher produces guidebooks to the Canadian Rockies and Alberta including Banff, Canmore, Jasper and Kananaskis Country. The principals of the company, Tony and Gillean Daffern, have been hiking, climbing and ski touring in mountain areas around the world for over forty years and have extensive knowledge of the Canadian Rockies. The company specializes in climbing, hiking, biking, skiing and paddling sports, wilderness travel, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and avalanche safety. The company also publishes and distributes books on mountains and mountaineering, tourism and the Calgary area. Rocky Mountain Books is the official distributor for the Alpine Club of Canada. The company has fifty titles in print.

In the late 1800s a cold water sulphur spring was discovered at the foot of Turtle Mountain. The claim was that the spring had more effective healing properties than those found at Banff. A log building was erected and it was run as a hotel. The first sulphur baths were taken in wash tubs and the cold water was heated over an outdoor fire. The operation was taken over by the Coal Co. in 1905 and a three-storey hotel, the Rocky Mountain Sanatorium, was built on the north side of the railway. The sulphur water was piped into the hotel. A turn down in the economy and the First World War lead to the decline of the hotels success and it was taken over by the Federal Government in 1917 and converted into a military hospital for returning soldiers.As a military hospital, the first Director of the Sanatorium was Dr. A.H. Baker, who in 1919 moved to Calgary, Alberta and became the Medical Superintendent of the Central Alberta Sanatorium, which was renamed the Baker Memorial Sanatorium in the early 1950's after Baker's death.The Rocky Mountain Sanatorium was torn down in 1928 and in the 1930s the Turtle Mountain Playground was built on its foundation.

The Rocky Mountain Seniors Ski Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting alpine skiing for seniors (aged 55+) at all ability levels. The Edmonton Group was formed in 1995 as a branch of the Seniors Alpine Ski Club (SASC), which is based out of Calgary. The first Edmonton organized ski trip occurred in 1996 and by the end of the 1997/1998 season the Edmonton Group consisted of 151 members.

In the 1999/2000 season, the SASC Northern Branch was officially created and held their first AGM. Cooperation continued between the groups but the Northern Group controlled their own affairs as much as possible. The interests of the Northern Branch became increasingly divergent from those of the parent Club, and administrative difficulties became pressing. Accordingly, members of this Branch were encouraged to form a separate club (Rocky Mountain Seniors Ski Club) in 2008, and the Branch was dissolved.

Based in Edmonton, the Rocky Mountain Seniors Ski Club was incorporated in April 2008. Besides regular skiing at their home hill in Edmonton, Snow Valley, the club organizes 6 to 8 mid-week tours to various mountain ski resorts in Alberta and B.C. Off-season activities include biking, golf, and a pre-ski season conditioning program.

The Rocky Mountain Seniors Ski Club has an 11 member Executive which includes a Club President, Past President, Vice President, Special Activities executive, Membership Information executive, Public Relations executive, Secretary, Social Events executive, Tour Coordinators, Treasurer, and Webmaster.

Charles Rodberg (1867-1917) was born in Brussels, Belgium. He arrived in Canada from Belgium in 1892, with four others, with the intention of raising horses. He filed for a homestead, the northwest quarter of section 24, Township 46, Range 23, West of the 4th Meridian (NW-24-46-23-W4) in 1895. Charles married Geraldine Roy in about 1897.

Geraldine Roy (1874-1964) was born in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. She came to the North-West Territories in 1887 with her father, George Roy (1846-1932), her mother Mathilda Langevin (1850-1932) and her sisters Mary Mathilde Georgina (Prince, then Savoie) (1873-1957) and Marie Blanche Antoinette (Royal) (1877-1961). George Roy was the first land registrar in Edmonton and held this position for twenty-seven years. He built one of the first private residences in Edmonton, at 10007-105 Street, which he lived in until his death in 1932. Georgina married Antonio Prince (d. 1906) in 1891 and remarried after his death. Marie Antoinette married Jules A. Royal in 1894.

The Rodbergs lived near Gwynne, North-West Territories (later Alberta). The home served as a store and the post office (initially named Diana in honour of their first daughter; this was changed to Gwynne in 1906). Charles and Geraldine had seven children: Diana (Turgeon) (1898-1964), Liliane (1900-1965), Roxane (Voyer) (1901-1990), Ruby Solange (1903-1988), Charles Joseph (1906-1986), Francis "Frank" (1910-1988) and Leonie (Armstrong) (1915-1999). For a number of years, Belgium immigrant Emile Jacmard lived with the family and worked on the homestead. The family then moved to Wetaskiwin, and later to Edmonton.

Born in 1946, Vance Rodewalt grew up on a cattle ranch in the Rainbow Valley near Edmonton, Alberta. In junior high school, Rodewalt sold a page of cartoons to Community Life. By senior high, he produced a comic strip and an editorial cartoon for a weekly newspaper near Edmonton.

After graduation, he freelanced for National Trust, a number of California magazines including Cycle Tune, and a few New York magazines. Rodewalt also freelanced for Marvel Comics, Parody and Cracked magazines as well as an oil industry serial entitled The Roughneck.

After Sid Barron left Calgary's Albertan in 1969, Rodewalt secured the job of political cartoonist and held the position until August 1, 1980. He worked at its successor, the Calgary Sun, until December 1983. In February 1984, Rodewalt moved to the Herald where he shared editorial cartooning duties with Tom Innes. In 1987, he assumed full duties for the Herald.

Rodewalt is well known for his editorial series The Byrds and the comic strip Chubb and Chauncey. In 1988, he won the National Newspaper Award for Cartooning. In 1992, he served as President of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists.

Rodewalt married former Olympic figure skater Susan Carscallen.

Diana Rosemary Rodney was born on April 19, 1924 to Lord George and Lady Marjorie (nee Lowther) Rodney who immigrated to Alberta in 1919 and homesteaded at Fort Saskatchewan. Rodney served with the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS) during World War II and graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1949.

Starting in 1959, she worked for the Government of Alberta as an information officer / farm writer for the Department of Agriculture, producing Agri-News. She retired in 1984.

She died in Victoria, British Columbia on April 26, 2022.

Edith Blanche Cox was born September 20, 1894 in Eastville, Nova Scotia to Samuel G. and Mahala (née Graham) Cox. She attended the Eastville Nova Scotia High School and Normal School and subsequently taught in Nova Scotia.

In 1913 Edith visited her aunt, Mrs. Alfred (Margaret) Redmond, in Edgerton, Alberta, where Edith was invited to teach at the Bloomington school. Edith attended the Camrose Normal School in 1914 and then taught near Tofield, Alberta and again in Edgerton. In 1918 she began work in the Merchants Bank (which amalgamated with the Bank of Montreal) at Edgerton, then Tofield in 1922 and finally Killam, Alberta in 1923.

On October 12, 1923 she married William Wright Rogers (1890-1968), the principal of the Killam High School. William had come to Strathcona, North-West Territories in 1904 with his parents. He attended the Grandin Street School, the Stranthcona Collegiate Institute, the University of Alberta and the Calgary Normal School. He taught at the Willow Creek School, west of Leduc, Alberta, before enlisting in 1914. After Edith and William were married, William was principal at Edgerton, Warner, Alberta and Crossfield, Alberta.

In 1929, Edith and William moved to Calgary where they became interested in William Aberhart's Social Credit ideas; from 1933 to 1935 they traveled throughout Alberta speaking and helping organize the Social Credit Party. Edith was a Social Credit candidate in the Ponoka constituency in 1935 where she defeated Premier John E. Brownlee; she was defeated in the 1940 election.

The Rogers moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1940. During the Second World War, William worked for the Marine Operators, a contracting firm from Omaha Nebraska and Edith was on the auditing staff of the United States Army, Corps of Engineers. Edith was elected as a school trustee to the Edmonton Public School Board in October 1959, and served until her retirement in October 1974. A school in Millwoods (Edmonton) was named in her honour. In 1973, she was awarded with a life membership in the Alberta School Trustee Association. She is the author of Pioneers of the West and History Made in Edmonton.

William died November 7, 1968 and Edith died July 17, 1985.

Jean Marie Rogers (Flaska) was born February 17, 1928 in Sprucefield, Alberta to her parents Ester ([1904]-2003) and James Flaska ([1904]-1980). She grew up on a family farm with three siblings, Roy ([1930]-1960), Margaret St. Louis (1926-2020), and Irene Lahti. Jean married Merville Rogers (1922-2008) in 1946 and taught for several years as a playschool teacher.

Jean was involved in numerous activist organizations throughout her life and was a founding member of the Raging Grannies in Alberta, which she took an active role in until 2001. The Raging Grannies were known for their protest folk music, and Jean Rogers took part in protests on issues such as healthcare privatization, nuclear arms, sexually transmitted disease awareness, university tuition rates, and environmental concerns.

Jean Rogers passed away at the Leduc Community Hospital on January 9, 2022. She was predeceased by Merville and survived by her daughter Renae Hughes.

Dr. Martha Rogers, American nurse theorist, is one of the founders of the Society of Rogerian Scholars, which is committed to fostering the development of the Science of Unitary Human Beings. This Science, promoted by Rogers, comprises the belief “that all nurses around the world should have a forum where questions, ideas, insights, and opinions related to the framework’s concepts, theories, and use in practice are discussed…the fulfillment of the mission and purposes of the Society will help to advance nursing as a science and thereby contribute significantly to the knowledgeable nursing of human beings.” Dr. Rogers published her theories in 1970, in An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing. She was Dean of the School of Nursing at New York until 1975/76 and retired from formal teaching in 1979.

William Wright Rogers was born in 1890 and came to Strathcona, North-West Territories in 1904 with his parents. He attended the Grandin Street School, the Stranthcona Collegiate Institute, the University of Alberta and the Calgary Normal School. He taught at the Willow Creek School, west of Leduc, Alberta, before enlisting in 1914.

On October 12, 1923 he married Edith Blanche Cox (1894-1985), a teacher at the Killam High School. Edith was born in Eastville, Nova Scotia to Samuel G. and Mahala (née Graham) Cox. She attended the Eastville Nova Scotia High School and Normal School and subsequently taught in Nova Scotia. In 1913 Edith visited her aunt, Mrs. Alfred (Margaret) Redmond, in Edgerton, Alberta, where Edith was invited to teach at the Bloomington school. Edith attended the Camrose Normal School in 1914 and then taught near Tofield, Alberta and again in Edgerton. In 1918 she began work in the Merchants Bank (which amalgamated with the Bank of Montreal) at Edgerton, then Tofield in 1922 and finally Killam, Alberta in 1923.

After Edith and William were married, William was principal at Edgerton, Warner, Alberta and Crossfield, Alberta. In 1929, Edith and William moved to Calgary where they became interested in William Aberhart's Social Credit ideas; from 1933 to 1935 they traveled throughout Alberta speaking and helping organize the Social Credit Party. Edith was a Social Credit candidate in the Ponoka constituency in 1935 where she defeated Premier John E. Brownlee; she was defeated in the 1940 election.

The Rogers moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1940. During the Second World War, William worked for the Marine Operators, a contracting firm from Omaha Nebraska and Edith was on the auditing staff of the United States Army, Corps of Engineers. Edith was elected as a school trustee to the Edmonton Public School Board in October 1959, and served until her retirement in October 1974. A school in Millwoods (Edmonton) was named in her honour. In 1973, she was awarded with a life membership in the Alberta School Trustee Association. She is the author of Pioneers of the West and History Made in Edmonton.

William died November 7, 1968 and Edith died July 17, 1985.

Rolla United Church is located in the Peace River area of north-eastern British Columbia near the Alberta border. The Peace River area United Churches, even those on the B.C. side of the border, have always been a part of Alberta and Northwest Conference. Initially part of what was the Peace River Presbytery, after 1991, the presbytery was renamed Northern Lights.

First homesteaded in 1912, Rolla soon had a Methodist mission served by Rev. A.J Law. The parsonage was used for services and initially for a school. In the 1920s, the town included a post office, telegraph office, hotels and restaurants, a bank and a movie theatre. Members became part of the newly-formed United Church of Canada in 1925. By 1928, a United Church had been built. However, after 1931, when the Northern Alberta Railway reached Dawson Creek not Rolla, some businesses moved there. By the 1950s, Rolla had become a preaching place in a pastoral charge with Pouce Coupe. In the mid-1960s, those two became part of the Dawson Creek pastoral charge, later renamed the South Peace Pastoral Charge. Rolla United Church closed in 1993.

As Rolla was the first church in the Peace River area, in 2012 United Church members in Dawson Creek held a 100th anniversary celebration on the site of the original Rolla United Church.

Rufus Joseph Rollis was born May 19, 1887 in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. He came to the Mount Olive district, near Three Hills, Alberta with his father, Otto John Rollis in 1903. Otto homesteaded the northwest quarter and Rufus the northeast quarter of section 24, Township 31, Range 25, West of the 4th Meridian (24-31-25-W4).

In 1906, Rufus married Effie P. Adsett (1885-1974); they had a son and a daughter, Otto (1907-1987) and Winnifred (Pye) (1910-1944). Rufus and Effie operated a stopping place, providing travelers with board and room. Rufus was on the Mount Olive School Board of Trustees for a number of years, as well as being a notary public and process issuer.

In 1916 the family moved to Three Hills, and Rufus opened a real estate and insurance office in partnership with Fred. A. Gillilan and Charles E. Lasher of Calgary, Alberta. In 1921, he established his own real estate and insurance firm, R.J. Rollis & Company (Co.) Limited (Ltd.); there were eventually several branch offices in Central Alberta.

Rollis moved to Red Deer, Alberta in 1938, and established Rollis Agencies in 1938. Rufus was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F), and active in the United Church.

Rufus died in Red Deer on May 7, 1969.

Winnifred Mabel Rollis was born August 2, 1910 in Three Hills, Alberta, the daughter of Rufus J. and Effie P. Rollis. She attended the Provincial Normal School in Edmonton, Alberta and was a school teacher in Knee Hill, Alberta and then in Horn Hill, Alberta.

On December 4, 1935 she married Hollis J. Pye (1909-1987); they had one daughter, Winnifred Lois (Brady) (1941-2014). Winnifred died August 14, 1944.

Lovie "Luba" Chmilar was born in Mundare, Alberta in 1939, the daughter of Steve Chmilar (1903-1998) and Alexandra Osinchuk Chmilar (1911-2002). She and her husband John Solowan (1925-1991) owned and ran a bakery in Edmonton, Alberta.

She later married Ken Romach (1935-2010).

The Archdiocese of Edmonton includes the greater Edmonton area but also covers a geographic region stretching from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Saskatchewan boundary in the east, from Olds in the south to Villeneuve in the north. In total the Archdiocese covers 81,151 square kilometres. It includes 65 parishes with resident priests in cities, towns, rural areas and native communities, and another 66 parishes and missions without resident priests. Within its boundaries are nine Catholic school districts and 10 Catholic health facilities including hospitals, continuing care centres and seniors residences.

The Archdiocese of Edmonton precedes the creation of Alberta. In 1822, Abbé Norbert Provencher, missionary of the Red River Settlement, became auxiliary to the Bishop of Quebec and was put in charge of the “District of the North,” an immense area spreading west from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast and north to the Arctic Ocean. In 1871 the Diocese of St. Albert was created. Several factors necessitated this move: the confederation of provinces in Canada with the promise of a transcontinental railway; the rapid disappearance of the buffalo with the resulting starvation of First Nations and Métis peoples, the heavy influx of white settlers of different ethnic origins and faiths, the problem of land and schools for the natives, the shortage of missionaries, schools and churches for the newcomers.

On Nov. 30, 1912, the Episcopal See of St. Albert was raised to the status of Archdiocese of Edmonton, and its southern portion removed to form the Diocese of Calgary. Archbishop Emile Legal became the first Archbishop of Edmonton. When he died in 1920, the Catholic population of the Archdiocese numbered 38,400; there were 92 religious priests and 28 diocesan priests serving in 55 parishes and 58 missions with churches.

The Archdiocese of Edmonton continued to grow rapidly after the end of the First World War. The basement of St. Joseph Cathedral was built (1925); a diocesan Catholic newspaper was published (1921); St. Joseph College was incorporated (1926); the diocesan seminary opened its doors (1927). Once again, a portion of the Archdiocese was carved out; this time, it was the northern section that became the Diocese of St. Paul in 1948.

Hyrco (1859-1946) and Anna Worobets (1867-1942) came to Canada with their family from Halychyna in 1898. The family, consisting of Stefen (1889-1954), Yelena (1891-1990), and Nastia, settled in the Wostok area to homestead. In Canada, the Worobets had additional children, including Demetro (1903-1999), Lena (Wynnychuk) (1909-1970) and Kate (Lazarenko) (1912-2006).

Yelena married John Romaniuk (1888-1945) in 1911 and had six children: Pearl (Kotyk, then Basaraba) (1912-2004), Mary (1913-2004), Harry (1918-2001), Annie (1921-2006), Nicholas (1923-1924), and Jane (Luchak). In 1943, Yelena and her family retired to Andrew, Alberta. Yelena ran a dress shop in Andrew until 1962.

James Henry Ronaghan immigrated to the United States from England circa (ca.) 1898 and by ca. 1905 was living in Vermilion, Alberta. He married Sarah Dutton and together they had five living children, Mary, Albert, Ernest, Annie, George, and Arthur Edgar. (Neil Edgar)

Allen Ronaghan was born in 1923 to Arthur Edgar Ronaghan and Nora Omness along with his sister, Rona, and brother, James. Allen Ronaghan was a teacher and taught in schools in central Alberta and Saskatchewan, and was Principal of the school in Tofield, Alberta. After teaching for a number of years Ronaghan returned to school, graduating with a Masters Degree in Western Canadian History from the University of Saskatchewan and a Doctorate in Western Canadian History from the University of Manitoba.

He married Shirley Hemphill in 1949 and together they had three daughters, Leona, Elizabeth, and Stella. He died in 2020.

Doris Elizabeth Babcock was born in 1906, the daughter of Bertrand Babcock (1874-1947) and Lily Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954). Her mother was an prolific author who wrote under the name Winnifred Eaton as well as the pseudonym Onoto Watanna. Her parents divorced in 1917, and Winnifred subsequently married Francis Fournier Reeve (1876-1956) that same year. The family moved to a farm near Calgary, Alberta in 1917, but Francis subsequently moved to Calgary and became involved in real estate, the stock market, and the oil and gas industry.

Doris married Geoffrey Rooney (1900-1934) in New York City, New York in 1924, and together they had a child: Paul George (known as Tim) (1925-2016). They had divorced by 1930. She lived in California before returning to Calgary in 1935 to work for her step-father. In retirement, she worked for the Francis F. Reeve Foundation in Calgary.

She died in Calgary in 1977.

Elmer Ernest Roper was born on June 4, 1893 in Ingonish, Nova Scotia to George Franklin and Nettie Edith (nee MacDonald) Roper. He attended school in Sydney, Nova Scotia and when the family moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1907 he apprenticed there as a printer. He married Goldie C. Bell *1893-1994) on June 15, 1914 and together they had three daughters and one son.

Roper later worked for the Calgary Herald, and in May 1917 became the foreman of the Edmonton Bulletin. He started his own printing business in 1921,which became Commercial Printers Limited in 1932, and also started two other associated companies, Comset Business Forms Limited and Plastic Platemakers Limited.

He was elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1942 and was an MLA until 1955 during which he served as the leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), which he also took a part in forming. Roper was also Mayor of Edmonton from 1959-1963 and served on a number of boards including the library, public school, and University of Alberta Hospital boards. He was an honorary life member of the Edmonton Rotary Club and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Alberta in 1959.

Roper retired to Victoria, British Columbia in 1975 and died on November 12, 1994, pre-deceased by his wife who died in August of the same year.

William Charles Ernest Roper was born October 20, 1858 in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England; he was the eighth child of Reverend Thomas Henry and Mary Emma (née Wood) Roper. After finishing a college education, Ernest left for Texas in 1880, obtaining 800 acres of land on Bear Creek, southwest of Kerrville, as well as town properties. He married Maria Louisa Hole (1865-1948) on August 16, 1885. In 1888 Ernest went to Jamaica as a plantation overseer and bookkeeper. In 1893, as a member of the Salisbury Horse, he fought in South Africa during the Matabele War.

In 1897, he applied for an Alberta homestead, the southern half of section 16, Township 47, Range 21, West of the 4th Meridian (16-47-21-W4), on the east shore of Bittern Lake; he subsequently purchased more lands in the area. His wife and children, William Trevor (1886-1973) and Margaret (Ladler) (1888-1971), arrived in Alberta in 1898.

Ernest opened a store near his house, and was appointed Postmaster for Bittern Lake on December 16, 1899. Ernest also served as Official Auditor, Notary Public and Commissioner of Oaths. In April 1914, Ernest sold his lands to Thomas Chadderton.

Claiming he was born in 1872, he enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on August 25, 1914. Newspaper coverage in 1915 noted that, despite his age, he was accepted into the military based on his past experience as a soldier. He served with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and left Canada with the first contingent in October 1914.

He died January 9, 1915, three days after going into the trenches, from wounds sustained there.

The Rose Butte Mutual Telephone Company was incorporated under the Companies Act on August 17, 1934 and served an area around Nobleford, Alberta. Specifically, it included Township 10, Range 23, West of the 4th Meridian (10-23-W4). Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) assumed provision of communication services in the area on March 12, 1973 and the Rose Butte Mutual Telephone Company held its final meeting on December 17, 1974, dissolving shortly thereafter.

Rose Valley School District No. 4276 was a school district in Alberta in the early-mid 20th century. It was established on January 7, 1927. In present-day it is close to or within the Parkland School Division. Specifically, it was in township 51, range 3, west of the 5th meridian.

G.H. (George Henry) Rose was born in Lethbridge in 1908. He attended the University of Alberta, graduating in arts and law in 1934. He married Berna Russell in 1932 but subsequently divorced in 1939.

He worked for the Department of the Attorney General as a crown attorney and was also involved in the process of revising Alberta's statutes. He married Jean Tackaberry in Edmonton in February 1943 before leaving to serve in the Canadian Army from 1943-1945. He received an appointment as a police magistrate for Calgary, serving from 1947 until he left in 1953 to join the staff of the Board of Public Utilities Commissioners as its solicitor.

When the function of overseeing securities was transferred in 1957 from the Board of Public Utilities Commissioners to the newly-formed Alberta Securities Commission, Rose was appointed as the founding chairman of the Commission. He retired as chair in 1974.

He died in Calgary in 1998, survived by his wife Jean and their children Jim and Penny.

Anne Bone Roseborough was born in Paisley, Ontario in 1882. She married Samuel Herbert Roseborough (1871-1917) in Dauphin, Manitoba in 1901. The family moved to Alberta in 1905 from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. They acquired a homestead in Vermilion, Alberta located at Township 50, Range 7, West of the 4th Meridian (50-7-W4). Samuel served overseas in World War I and was wounded at Ypres, Belgium in 1916. He died in a military hospital in Edmonton in 1917.

Anne and Samuel Roseborough had two children, A.W. (Adelbert Wellington) (1902-1988) and Margaret (Stobie) (d. 1990). Margaret was a professor in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba who retired in 1976.

Anne died in Vermilion, Alberta in 1964.

The Rosebud Corner Mutual Telephone Company held its organizational meeting on July 2, 1958 and was officially incorporated on August 1, 1958. The telephone company serviced a relatively small region around Rosebud, Alberta about one section in width and five sections long. This region was located between Township 28, Range 22, West of the 4th Meridian (28-22-W4) and Township 28, Range 21, West of the 4th Meridian (28-21-W4).

The Rosebud Corner Mutual Telephone Company remained in operation for a decade before it was taken over by Alberta Government Telephones in November 1969.

Rosedale United Church was established in Calgary in 1968 upon the amalgamation of Crescent Heights United Church and North Hill United Church. Crescent Heights Methodist Church joined into Union in 1925 to become Crescent Heights United Church. From 1968-1970, the congregation was known as Crescent Heights-North Hill United Church.

In 1970, the congregation voted in favour of renaming itself Rosedale United Church in memory of Rosedale Presbyterian Church which was established in 1910 but which changed its name to North Hill Presbyterian Church in 1913. Rosedale United Church existed until 2002 when it amalgamated with Pleasant Heights United Church to form Wild Rose United Church.

In 1920, settlers in rural Alberta selected a plot of land located at the Northeast Section 2, Township 36, Range 58, West of the Sixth Meridian (NE 2 36 58 W 6) in the Barrhead region for the purposes of building a cemetery. Interested parties purchased shares in the cemetery which were converted to plots as required. The cemetery is still active.

The Rosemary Mutual Telephone Company was incorporated under the Companies Act on November 16, 1955 and served an area around Rosemary, Alberta. Specifically, it included Townships 20 and 21, Rangers 15 and 16, West of the 4th Meridian (20,21-15,16-W4). Alberta Government Telephone (AGT) assumed provision of communications in the area in February 1974 and the Rosemary Mutual Telephone Company was dissolved in 1976.

The Rosemount Mutual Telephone Company was incorporated on July 27, 1959 and served the area around Bow Island, Winnifred and Grandview, Alberta. Specifically, it included Townships 10, 11 and 12, Ranges 9, 10 and 11, West of the 4th Meridian (10,11,12-9,10,11-W4). The company was taken over by Alberta Government Telephones on February 26, 1973, but was not officially dissolved by shareholders until August 1974.

Iris Rosen was an Edmonton resident and former travel consultant. She was born in London, England on August 10, 1923 to Pauline and Max Rosen and was enlisted into the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) upon her 18th birthday in 1941. She served in the WAAF through the remainder of World War Two and was stationed at various bases in England as well as in India and Singapore. She arrived in Singapore shortly after the cessation of conflict in 1945 and was one of the first British service members to return to Singapore since the Japanese invasion in 1941. She left the WAAF in 1946, but her travel experiences with the service had interested her greatly and she continued to travel extensively.

Later, she immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto. She joined the fledgling travel industry as a travel agent in 1956, working with Air and Ocean Travel. As one of the first female travel agents in Canada, Rosen gained experience and opened her own travel consulting business in Edmonton in 1961.

In Edmonton, Rosen's business thrived and she was able to teach a business course at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. As part of her work, she traveled to several sites throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South America and thoroughly photo-documented these travels and her life in Edmonton.

Iris continued to reside in Edmonton after her retirement and died in April 2009.

Rebecca "Becky" Hanson was born ca. 1912, the daughter of Elhonen and Sonia Hanson of Calgary. She married Ralph Rosenberg in Edmonton, Alberta in 1936.

She was involved in the Edmonton branch of the Pioneer Women's Organization of America, a Jewish women's association.

Daniel Rosenberg worked as a photographer for Photographic Creations in Edmonton, Alberta in the 1990s.

William MacKinnon Ross born September 15, 1881 in Valleyfield, Prince Edward Island (PEI). Raised in PEI, he attended Prince of Wales College and taught school for a few years before heading west in 1904 and finding work in copper mines in British Columbia.

While in Greenwood, British Columbia, he met Helen Bertha McClure. She was born August 7, 1883 in Watford, Ontario and was in Greenwood visiting her sister. William and Helen were married June 27, 1911 in Fort Nelson, British Columbia. William continued to work in mines, and in 1912 Helen traveled to Ontario for the birth of their first child, Mary Vivian, on March 1, 1913.

In early 1913, after hearing of a possible teaching opportunity at Flat Lake, Alberta, William moved to Flat Lake and was joined by his family that fall. William taught at Flat Lake School and later Beacon (originally Nova Bukovina) School and homesteaded near Chicken Hill, Alberta on the southeast section of Section 4, Township 60, Range 8, West of the 4th Meridian (4-60-8-W4). A son John Donald was born October 4, 1917 and twins William Alexander (Alex) and Catherine Anna were born June 26, 1919. The Ross family moved to Rife, Alberta in 1928. William and Helen farmed in Rife until retiring in 1961. They moved to Bonnyville, Alberta and their son Donald took over the farm. William died in November 1963 and Helen in September 1968.

Vivian married Ray White (1904-1989) in 1936 and they had four children: Edgar, Diane (Brown), Lynn and Ross. She died in 2006.

Donald married Olive Munroe (1920-2018) in 1949 and they had three children: Elsie (Cunningham), Lawrence and Allan. He died in 1994.

Alex married Julia Strumecki Damowhry in 1964. He died in 2009.

Catherine married Dan Smith (d. 2006) in 1940 and they had four children: Jean (Mottershead), Mack, Sidney and Richard. She died in 2022.

Alexander Ross was born in Premnoy, Scotland in 1880. He trained a stonemason and emigrated to Canada in 1906. He became involved in the labour movement in Calgary, serving as president of the Bricklayers and Masons Union, the Calgary Trades and Labour Council, the Calgary Labour Temple, and the Alberta Federation of Labour. He served as the representative of labour interests on the Provincial Central Committee of the Canadian Military Hospitals Commission (1915-1918).

He was elected as a Labour Representation League MLA in 1917, which became the Dominion Labour Party (Alberta) in 1918. He represented the electoral districts of Calgary Centre (1917-1921) and Calgary (1921-1926). Although he represented an opposing party, United Farmers Premier Herbert Greenfield appointed Ross as Minister of Public Works (1921-1926). Although Ross was defeated in the June 1926 provincial election, he retained his cabinet position until his resignation in December 1926.

After leaving office, he was appointed chair of the Workmen's Compensation Board in 1928, serving until 1935 when Premier William Aberhart requested his resignation.

In 1943, he retired to Victoria, BC and died there in 1953.

Charles N. "Chuck" Ross was born in 1920 in Scotland. He moved to Canada in 1926. He trained at the British Ministry of Information at the Film Technology Pinewood Studios in England. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the Canadian Army in the Film and Photo Unit. He was discharged as a Sergeant Cameraman in July 1946.

From 1947 to 1949, he worked on the photographic staff of the Edmonton Bulletin. In 1949, he joined the Alberta Government and co-coordinated television and news media on state and royal visits during the 1950s and 1960s, working as a cameraman, director, and producer. In 1968, he became Director of Film and Photographic Branch of the Alberta Government. In 1972, Chuck Ross headed the Film Industry Sector of the Department of Business Development and Tourism. In 1977, Chuck retired from the Alberta Government, but continued to work as a consultant in both public and private fields.

He held membership with Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association, Canadian Film and Television Association, Canadian Society of Cinematographers, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.

He married Verna, and together they had a child, Jim. He died in Edmonton in 2010.

Donald Ross was one of the first settlers in Edmonton to mine coal. He mined on his property along the McDougal Hill and created a series of tunnels.

Joseph Donovan Ross was born in Waldo, B.C. in 1911. He moved with his parents to Edmonton in 1926. He attended the University of Alberta, graduating with a degree in arts and medicine in 1937. He opened a medical practice in Edmonton in 1938 and, in that same year, married Lillian Peterson (1913-2009). In 1939, he joined the Royal Canadian Navy, serving until 1945. After doing post-graduate studies in Toronto and Ottawa, he returned to Edmonton in 1946 to resume his medical practice. He and Lillian had nine children.

He was elected as a Social Credit MLA in 1952 for the Edmonton electoral district. He served as Minister of Health (1957-1969) and Minister of Lands and Forests (1969-1971). He was defeated in the 1971 provincial election and retired from provincial politics.

He retired to the Lazy DR Ranch in Fallis, Alberta where he died in 1984.

J.L. Ross lived in Spruce Grove. He worked as an Information Officer for the Provincial Museum of Alberta.

Melvin Ross was born August 19, 1914 at Hutchinson, Minnesota, U.S.A., moved to Dorothy, Alberta in 1932 and worked the family ranch with his father. Ethel Graham was born January 2, 1919 in Drumheller, Alberta. Melvin and Ethel married on February 19, 1946. Melvin and Ethel owned a store at Kenisville, Alberta for a short time and then moved to Calgary, Alberta and built and sold houses.

Mel was also an inventor, an artist and a writer. Ethel was a writer and a lobbyist, especially regarding the topic of water resources, and was a member of the Western Canada Reclamation Association, a water rights group. They co-authored the book "The Long Road South" about their trip through Mexico, Central and South America, where they also filmed their travel film "The Pan-American Highway," in 1960 and 1961.

In the early 1950s, they decided to live on the road in their home-made camper truck and make adventure-travel films. They purchased their first movie camera, a second-hand 16mm camera, in southern California. They then taught themselves filmmaking, purchased a newer and better camera, and proceeded to make their living producing travel films and lecturing for the next two decades. Their productions were filmed in various locations around the world. They created commentaries for their films and then lectured and screened the films at universities, colleges, service organizations, schools and churches throughout Canada and the United States. Some of the films were also broadcast on television. Melvin was the primary cinematographer with Ethel taking over filming where required. Ethel was the still photographer for their films and on their trips. When screening the films, Melvin presented the live commentary and Ethel projected the films. Travel was a great passion for the Rosses, and over their lives, they traveled to every continent, and worked as tour guides on some of the trips.

Melvin and Ethel retired to Calgary, Alberta. Melvin Ross died February 21, 2011 in Calgary. Ethel Ross died October 21, 2015 in Calgary.

Olive (Dolly) Ross was born in Edmonton, North-West Territories (now Alberta), in 1881; she was the daughter of Donald and Olive (Brewitt) Ross.

Donald Ross had been born in 1840 in Scotland. He emigrated from Scotland when he was thirteen years old, landing in the city of New York in the United States, and headed west to San Francisco in 1860. In 1872 he moved to Edmonton and began homesteading 70 acres of land east of the Hudson's Bay Reserve. Ross used the second floor of his homestead to build the Edmonton Hotel, which was completed in 1876. In 1878 he married Olive Brewitt; she had been born in Surrey, England about 1845, and was one of eight children. She emigrated to Canada in 1872, moving to Edmonton in 1878. Together Donald and Olive Ross had three children: James, Olive (Dolly), and Donald. Donald Ross died in 1915, and his wife Olive died in 1932.

Dolly trained as a nurse in the Royal Victorian Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. She served in Europe during World War I and upon her return moved to the Fort McMurray, Alberta area circa (ca.) 1920. Dolly Ross died in Edmonton in 1970.