Fonds F0684 - Charles S. Douglas fonds

Charles Stuart Douglas, 1908-1987, was born in Shoal Lake, Manitoba. He moved to Rosemary, Alberta with his family in 1919, then to Gem in 1925. He attended Calgary Normal School and taught at Gem, Sunnynook and Leslieville. In the Second World War he joined the RCAF, and was an instructor at the No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School at Dafoe, Saskatchewan, 1941-1945. After the war he attended the University of Alberta, obtaining a degree in agriculture. He began working for the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in 1949. When he retired in 1973 he was manager of PFRA's Bow River Irrigation Project in Vauxhall. He and his wife, Willa, 1914-2000, had three children, Diane (Gertzen), David and Bill, ?-1997.