Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Wilson, Thomas Edmund "Ed"
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Wilson, Ed
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Description area
Dates of existence
1898-1979
History
Thomas Edmund "Ed" Wilson, 1898-1979, was the son of Thomas E. Wilson, the well-known Rocky Mountain guide and explorer, and Minnie McDougall. He was born in Alberta and lived in Nordegg from 1914 to 1950. He returned from the First World War in 1917 because of an injury, and then worked in the coal mining industry as a surface foreman. He moved from Nordegg to Calgary in 1950.