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Related subjects Olds Region (Alta.)--Biography Olds Region (Alta.)--History Publication information Olds, Alberta: Olds History Committee, 1980	Olds : a history of Olds and area Olds History Committee
	Table of Contents Cover Acknowledgments Contents Preface Foreword The Olds Story The Beginning The Coming of Man The Indians and the Buffalo The Trails Lone Pine Stopping House Earliest Settlement The Coming of The Railway The Beginnings of the Settlement at Olds Hardy Pioneers The Rabbit Years and the Wet Years The Village (1900-1905) Early Years in and Around Town Highlights Getting Started Early Years The Battle of Olds Prospects, Progress and Some Pioneers Old Families of Olds Early Editors Town Utilities A Glimpse of Rural Life Animals in the Town A Great Sporting Achievement Travel World War I A Celebration, Too Early Years of Peace and Progress Highlights "The 'Flu" Woods Christian Home Rolling Along Buckets and Other Business Faithful Town Servants Fire! Growth and Progress Sports The 24th of May Culture and the Social Scene The Darker Side Memories of Childhood The Great Coyote Caper A Difficult Decade Highlights Setting the Scene Businesses Come and Go Two Shoemakers The Newspaper The Way We Were The Transients Growing Up in Olds The Milkmen The Rural Scene Social Credit Some Personalities Big Business Fixers and Flyers Looking Out Looking Up The Unforgettable Forties Highlights The War The Bombing of Olds People Come and Go A Building Boom Miscellaneous Memories Wheat, Weather and Wildlife The Fun of The Forties The Last thirty Years Highlights The Sports Scene The Military in Olds 1939-1964 The Recreation Centre The History of Disaster Services at Olds The Builders of Olds Growth of the Town Mount View Lodge The Downtown Business Section The Business Areas - Highway 27 Growth in Area and Population Growth in Housing Kiwanis Manor Other Progress Town Utilities The Water Line The A.G.T. Story The Olds-Sundre Link People Groups of People Some Individuals People Doing Things Halloween Night Horror The Fire Update on Olds and the C.P.R. Miscellany Churches and Other Religious Groups St. John's Anglican Church The Baha'i Faith In Olds Olds Baptist St. Stephen's Catholic Church The Olds Charismatic Prayer Group Jehovah's Witnesses Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Olds Branch (Mormon) St. Paul's Lutheran Church Church of the Nazarene Pastors of the Olds Church of the Nazarene Olds Pentecostal Assembly St. Andrews Presbyterian Church The Salvation Army Seventh Day Adventist Church Olds United Church Last Five Years The Ministry of Music Organizations Rural Churches East Olds Baptist Church Bennett-Hammer United Church United Church Rural Mission Fields Hainstock-Berrydale United Church The Ennerdale United Church Eagle Hill United Church Westerdale United Church Ennerdale Mission Field Willowbank Presbyterian Church St. George's Anglican Church-Harmattan Other Pioneer Congregations Lay Preachers Schools The Olds Schools Fly Contest Private Kindergartens The Robinette Kindergarten La Rue Kindergarten Peter Pan Kindergarten The E.C.S. Kindergarten Nursery Schools The Olds Nursery School Horizon School Rural Schools The Country Girl Comes to Olds High School Eighteen Years in a Rural School Health Care The Early Doctors The Olds Associate Clinic Public Health Coroners Hospitals in Olds The Olds Hospital Board Nursing and Maternity Homes Drug Stores Ambulance Service Dentists Optometric Services Chiropractors Veterinary Surgeons Roll of Honour World War I World War II World War II Navy U.S.A. Navy World War II Air Force World War II Women's Division In Flanders Fields Organizations Baron Tweedsmuir Chapter I.O.D.E. The Kiwanis Club of Olds Olds Lions Club The Optimist Club of Olds The Royal Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League Olds Ladies Auxiliary to the Legion No. 105 Through the Years with The Olds Elks Order of the Royal Purple Auxiliary of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Canada Father Forsythe Council 4748 Knights of Columbus Mountain View Lodge #16 A.F. & A.M. Mountain View Chapter # 1 Order of the Eastern Star The Rock House (Olds Curling Club) Olds Ladies Curling Club Olds Fish and Game Association The Olds Flying Association Olds Golf Club Olds Ladies Golf Club Olds Marlins Swim Club The Olds Snowmobilers Olds-Didsbury Chapter Alberta Association of Registered Nurses Clarion Toastmistress Club Olds Art Club Olds Handicraft Guild Olds Music Teachers Club The Olds Board of Trade Olds Community Chest Olds Community Rest Room Society The Olds Co-Operative Association The Olds Disaster Committee Sparks and Ashes (Olds Volunteer Fire Department) Mountain View Museum Olds Hospital Auxiliary Library Development in Olds Olds Preventive Social Services (P.S.S.) Youth Work in Olds Olds Branch - The Canadian Red Cross Society Charter Officers of the Olds Branch Canadian Red Cross Society #185 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Cadets The Boy Scouts and Cubs in Olds Scout Camps in the 1930's - By One of the Survivors Brownies, Guides and Rangers Calico Capers - The Olds Square Dancing Club Oil Wives Club of Olds Olds and District Evergreen Club The Olds Old Timers Association The Olds Agricultural Society Olds Farmers in the Grain Marketing Business Feeders' Association Women's Institutes The College and the Community College People Editor's Note Economic Impact of the College on the Town Social and Cultural Impact Extension Role of the College Parking of Students' Cars Turning on of Natural Gas Library Facilities Courses for Olds School Students at the College The High School Fire - 1975 Dormitories and Boarding Houses Town Services to the College Student Employment Medical Services Weather Records School Fairs A New Relationship - 1978 A Memorable Snow Storm Special Course, 1919 The Garnet Wheat Episode Fred Parkinson's Wartime Reminiscences Agriculture Farming Early Settlement - Acquiring the Land The Nature of the Area Groups of Farmer Settlers Settlers from Eastern Canada and the United States A Group of British Settlers Danish Settlers Settlers from Norway Settlers from the Cereal Area German Baptist Settlers on the Reed Ranch A Pattern of Settlement The Soldier Settlement Board 1918-1945 The British Empire Settlers The Veteran Land Act - 1945 Farming Through the Decades Getting Started in the Twenties Getting Started in the Thirties Getting Started in the Forties Getting Started in the Fifties Getting Started in the Sixties Getting Started in the Seventies Summary The Soils of Olds - A Challenging Inheritance Ranching The Burns Ranches Reed Ranch Hunter Ranches Hunter and the Reed Ranch W.W. Hunter - Cattle Buyer Coburn Ranch and School Worthy of Note Our Super Hereford Breeder Noad Brothers - Cattle Judges and Exhibitors Our Premier Breeder and Exhibitor Our Master Farm Family Horses and Outstanding Breeders Farm Utilities Rural Telephones Reddy Kilowatt Comes To Olds Farmers Natural Gas For Olds Area Farms The Foothills Natural Gas Co-op Ltd. 4-H In Olds Area Other Industries Lumbering The Petroleum Industry 75th Anniversary Salute Mrs. Gladys Bowman (Mondey) Mrs. Clara Bush Mrs. Minnie Cook (Fletcher) The Dodds Robert Gathercole Anton (Tony) Hammer Mrs. Vera Hanson and Mrs. Laura Ashton Mrs. Elsie Hawthorne Mrs. Mildred Elsie Haynes Harry Hudson J.H. Kemp Mrs. Rachel La March Martin Lee Harry Moritz Oliver Moritz Sverre Nesseth William Oelke Erick Olsen The Pollack Brothers Mrs. May Grant, Mrs. Agnes Mumford, Mrs. Jessie Lee, Mrs. Minnie Doherty (The Potts Sisters) Mrs. Edith Reid And Mrs. Ina Stromsmoe Henry Rice and Tillie (Rice) Casey Rudolph Ronneberg Mrs. Lillian Royston Mrs. Esther Saunders Ernest Scott David Shannon Jr. Martin Stromsmoe Olaf Stromsmoe and Mrs. Jennie Johnson (Stromsmoe) Mrs. Annie Weir Mrs. Beatrice Whitehair Mr. Henry Rosehill What I Like about Living in Olds Tributes and Trivia Dr. Michael Clark A Story About "Red Michael" A Tribute to Alberta Haldane Fred Niddrie Donna Hill Charles Hillebrecht Ahead of Their Time Horse Trading Duck Fever The Bad Winter of 1919-20 Before Refrigeration Hunterville Post Office Tom Jensen Says - Remember When Fireman Ronnie Some Stories from Chris Dunkley Harold Welch Quotes The Escaped Bank Robber Hide and Seek Who's Next? James Sim A Bit of Barnyard Humour Charlie The Fifty Cent Dollar Lists The Mayors and Councillors of Olds Secretary Treasurers of the Town of Olds Postmasters of the Town of Olds 1-D Government of Canada 1-E Government of the Province of Alberta 2-A Ministers Who have Served East Olds Baptist Church 2-B Student Ministers who Served the Ennerdale Mission Field 3-A School Inspectors and Superintendents 3-B Rural Schools in the Olds Area 8-A Danish Settlers 8-B Norwegian Settlers 8-C Farmers From Cereal Area 8-D Others from Cereal Area 8-E Natural Gas Cooperatives Index Our Family History	Go to page: Search this volume search

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