Wright, Frederick John

Frederick John Wright, 1902-[after 1980], was born in England. He was placed with Dr. Barnardo's Homes in 1909 and sent to a foster home in Muskoka, Ontario. In 1919 he came to Nanton, Alberta on a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) harvest excursion train. He went back to Ontario but by 1920 was back in Alberta. He worked in the Turner Valley oil fields until he was laid off in 1930. He was unemployed or underemployed for the next ten years. From about 1934 to 1936 he was at a work camp in Canmore doing road construction and later worked in Calgary soup kitchens. He served in the Canadian army from 1940 to 1946. He and his wife, Thelma, had three children and moved to Calgary ca. 1950 where he worked for the federal government. In the 1970s he worked as a volunteer for the Calgary School Board giving talks to students about his experiences in the 1930s.