The Acme Feeder Association was established in the 1950s to purchase livestock for its members to feed. The association then cooperatively sold the animals to obtain the best possible price. The organization had members from the Acme and Linden areas of Alberta.
Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
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Ken Adachi was a Canadian writer and literary critic, who was associated with the Toronto Star's literary section from 1976 until his death.
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Robert Nichols Adair, 1922-2007, was born in Maysville, Kentucky, USA. He was educated at the Kentucky Military Institute and Cornell University. He started in the oil industry in Texas in 1946 and moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1950. He worked for Stanolind Oil and Pathfinder Oil and Gas before forming his own companies, R.N. Adair Oil Management and Zorayda Oil Company. He started writing the R. Adair Oil Memorandum (a weekly publication) for a client in 1964 and published it until his death in 2007.
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He was born at Louvain, Belgium on January 24, 1857. He was a Civil Engineer and had lost his parents and only sister. Around 1883 he arrived in Canada and worked for the C.N.R as a consulting engineer, and assisted in building the railroad through the rockies until 1885. For three years he was a fur trader in the Peace River area and each summer took his furs to London, England and visited his home town in Belgium. On a return trip he met Father Beillevaire in Montreal who came to establish himself at the Laboucane Settlement.
In 1887 he sent for his fiancee in Belgium and they were married by Father Beillevaire. He built a new ranch at Pipestone Creek near Gwynne. He also had a ranch at Beaver Lake, near Tofield and later a store at Duhamel. When the C.P.R line was extended east from Wetaskiwin to Sparling, later Camrose, he moved his family into town and is credited as being the founding father of Camrose. When the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was laid from Tofield to Calgary, Francois became their employee and he planned and established the townsites between Tofield and Calgary. He lso surveyed and purchased the right of way for the Railroad company.
Francois Adam passed away on May 15, 1961 at the age of 104 years.