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Miles, Layton Earl
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Layton Earl Miles, 1908-1967, was born in Kamsack, Saskatchewan and was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. In 1929 he was hired by the Kootenay Valley Transportation Company and began a long career as a bus driver. In 1939 Greyhound bought out this company, and Miles continued to drive for Greyhound until 1966. During his career his drove over 3,600,000 km in southern British Columbia and Alberta, including the Crowsnest Pass and Rogers Pass. In 1959 he was a driver for the International Joint Commission on Waterways. He and his wife, May, had three children, Robert, William and Elizabeth (Kirkwood).

Nagle, Edmund Barry
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Edmund Barry "Ed" Nagle, 1853-1929, was born in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec and educated at St Laurence College. He was involved in farming and milling in his home province, but in the 1880s he moved to Manitoba and then Edmonton, Alberta. In 1887 he joined James Hislop to develop the Hislop and Nagle fur trading company along the Athabasca River and Mackenzie River. At its height the Hislop and Nagle Company operated 14 permanent fur trade posts and ran a freighting operation with three steamboats in competition with the Hudson's Bay Company from headquarters at Fort Resolution and Fort Rae, Northwest Territories.

Ed married Eva Klapstein in 1895 and they had five children, Eva Geraldine, Edmund Harry, Sarsfield Burke, Theresa Margaret and Louise. In 1911 he sold the firm to the Northern Trading Company and retired to Penticton, British Columbia. His son, Edmund Harry "Ted" Nagle, 1898-1989, was born in Hay River, NWT, and raised in Edmonton and Penticton, British Columbia. He spent five years prospecting throughout the north for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, after which he was appointed Foreman Underground for the Sullivan Mines in Kimberley.

For further information see Battling the Bay : The Turn of the Century Adventures of Fur Trader Ed Nagle / Jordan Zinovich. -- Edmonton : Lone Pine Publishing, 1992; and The Prospector / Ted Nagle and Jordan Zinovich. -- Edmonton : Lone Pine Publishing, 1989.

Nelson, Norman Edward
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Norman Edward Nelson, [?-after 1961], was a grain buyer for Ellison Milling in Coutts, Alberta when he married Lucy Virginia Reese, ?-1978, in 1917. Soon after their marriage they moved to a farm at Turin where Nelson was in partnership with a M. Monson. In 1920 the Nelsons moved to Coaldale where Norman worked for the Alberta Wheat Pool. The Nelsons were divorced in the 1940s.

Niven, Frederick John
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Frederick John Niven, 1878-1944, was born in Valparaiso, Chile. He grew up and was educated in Scotland and visited British Columbia in 1899. A series of articles which Niven wrote about his Canadian experiences led him into journalism. In his spare time he wrote novels and soon devoted his time to fiction. In 1911, he married Pauline Thorn-Quelch, 1896-1968, and soon after made another tour of Canada.

During the First World War he worked for the food control board and ministry of information in England. In 1920 the Nivens moved to Nelson, British Columbia, where they remained for the rest of their lives. It was here that Frederick wrote his most outstanding Scottish novels, compiled his autobiography, and wrote historical novels of Canada.

For further information see "Frederick Niven" in Canadian Writers, 1890-1920 / edited by W. H. New. -- Detroit : Gale Research, 1990.

Noble, Tom J.
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Tom J. Noble, 1872-1949, came west around 1903 and worked at Bill Richard's sawmill on the Stoney reserve at Morley, Alberta. For a time he homesteaded at NW 30-26-6-W5, but let it go back to the Crown. He then opened a store on the reserve. It was moved to a number of different locations. In about 1920 he moved to Jumping Pound.

Nolan, Thirza Jane
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Thirza Jane Little, 1867-1948, was born in the USA, possibly in Illinois. In 1885 she married Thomas Patrick Nolan, 1862-1951. They had twelve children, seven of whom survived infancy. They moved to Lethbridge, Alberta, where Thomas was a railway engineer. In 1902 the Nolans moved to the Rockyford Ranch in the Iron Springs/Picture Butte area of Alberta.

O'Brien, Patrick Martin
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Patrick Martin O'Brien, 1888-1959, was born in Eganville, Renfrew County, Ontario and came to Alberta ca. 1910. He worked for the Eastern Irrigation District, and was a freighter around Brooks before moving to Calgary ca. 1920. He worked for Commercial Cartage in Calgary, Edmonton and in the Edson area. In the latter area he was under contract to Gebo Collieries which developed the Luscar Mine on the Gregg River. He later worked in Edmonton for Poole Construction, Bennett and White, and OK Construction before establishing Devon Sand and Gravel in 1952.

His son, John, 1921- , was born in Calgary and began work in construction with Poole Construction in 1938 on the rebuilding of the Bartman Dam. He later worked for Bennett and White, 1939-1942, and 1946-1947, and Mannix, 1948, in Calgary and for Paget and OK Construction in Edmonton. He later joined his father's firm and moved to Calgary.

Oliver, William John
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William John Oliver, 1887-1954, was born in Ash, Canterbury, Kent, England where he was a butcher's apprentice. He became interested in photography after winning a camera. In 1910 he emigrated to southern Alberta and worked as a teamster at Strathmore. In the following years he began his photography career working as a camera assistant at the Frederick B. Cooper Photographic Studio in Calgary. Later in 1911 he began working for the Morning Albertan and in 1912 opened the W.J. Oliver Photographic Studio. He also joined the Calgary Herald as staff photographer.

The studio became extremely successful and his work eventually took him outside the Calgary area. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he took many photos of the Calgary Stampede, and travelled across Canada taking photos and films for the National Parks Branch, Fox News and others. In 1936-1937 he was official photographer on Michael Lerner's big game hunting expeditions to Africa and southeastern Asia, and in 1939 accompanied Lerner to Alaska. William wound down his photographic activities in the 1940s and in 1942 sold the studio to Walter Cadman who had joined his staff in 1923. He then devoted his time to his Diamond L ranch in the Millarville area. He and his wife, Marjorie Beatrice Martin, 1896-1993, whom he married in 1920, had three daughters, Joan (Cavers), Doreen (Huffman), and Audrey-Jean (Langford).

For further information see W.J. Oliver, Life Through a Master's Lens / Sheilagh S. Jameson. - Calgary : Glenbow Museum, 1984.

Palmer, Asael Exile
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Asael Exile Palmer, 1888-1984, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. His family moved to Alberta in 1903 and homesteaded near Turin in 1909. He received his BSc in crops and soils at Utah State Agricultural College, and later obtained a second BSc from the University of Alberta. In 1921 he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Lethbridge Experimental Station. He became superintendent in 1945. He was a specialist in dry land farming and wrote many articles and books on irrigation, soil erosion, and water conservation.

He was a life member of the Alberta Institute of Agrologists and the Agricultural Institute of Canada, and was actively involved in the Alberta Agricultural Research Trust and the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA). He was inducted into the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1973. He was president of the Lethbridge Stake of the Mormon Church for twenty years.

He married Maydell Cazier in 1916 and they had four children, A. Delbert, Camille (Hawkins), Eileen (Smith) and Byron C.