In Memoriam. Reuben Olson Dec 1910- Nov25th 2010 * Very pic heavy
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What a wonderul trip back in time you just gave me.Those pics should be copied and the copies sent off to some museum, they are something everyone should see. Thanks for giving us the privelidge of taking a glimpse into the life of a true pioneer!!!!
Just replied to your post Noel but it really got me thinking. I'm a immigrant to this country, from England, too many years for me to care to remember now. I'm retired, live a good life and Canada has been great to me. But you know, its guys like your uncle, all those "old timers" that made this country, literally snatched it from mother nature and learned to live and conserve. It just makes me feel we have a great debt and a great responsibilty owed to these men and women. Your uncle is up there now, telling his tories, they will get bigger as the years go by. You have been so blessed to have been influenced by a giant of a maan like that. This is not a time to grieve, its a time to celebrate. Reading your story, listening to the songs, looking at the pictues has just made my day, I thank you!!!!!!!
We all feel your loss Noel! Most of us have many great memories of times spent with treasured Family members, some passed & some still present. What a great tribute to your Uncle, I'm sure he would be proud of you. Thanks for sharing your pictures & memories with us!
George
George
Condolences to you and your family, what a great story reallly enjoyed it because i have a place right by bergen and its nice to see pics of the area from alllong time ago! thanks again for the pics and story..... one more watching over us while we hunt
My father was born in 12 and died 4 years ago. I never realized how much I loved him until he was gone. I wish now that I had spent more time asking him about the old days because they lived through a lot of history in the 20's and 30's. I will always remember a day when we were hunting ducks in a slough about 20 miles from our farm when Dad pointed to a bush and said that in 1932 he chased a deer out right there and his Uncle Bob shot it right over there. In those days there was very few deer around so it was a big event for them. That's the kind of history that you have with your Uncle.
My Condolences
A great tribute to a great man for sure Noel.
It is only as we grow older and we lose those instrumental folks in our lives that we reflect on just how much knowledge and experience they had. The experience's they had were what I would call raw - practical skills and abilities developed in the settling of this great country.
It is refreshing to see this tribute and it reminds me of the important things in life.
Sorry for your loss and thanks for giving us a glimpse at what a great man your uncle was.
A great tribute to a great man for sure Noel.
It is only as we grow older and we lose those instrumental folks in our lives that we reflect on just how much knowledge and experience they had. The experience's they had were what I would call raw - practical skills and abilities developed in the settling of this great country.
It is refreshing to see this tribute and it reminds me of the important things in life.
Sorry for your loss and thanks for giving us a glimpse at what a great man your uncle was.
You guys are great, thanks for all the posts.
This whole thread is a a celebration of not only Reuben's life, but of all the folks who broke the ground for us. Also, I hope it sparks an interest in some of the young folks here to hang out with some of those "grumpy old people". Walk a mile in their shoes and try to get what they are saying, hard as it can be. You will never regret it.
Thanks for that pic Dave. That is the very sunset view Reuben and I enjoyed many times. What a view!
I am working on getting a display figured out for the Sundre museum where Reuben spent many days fixing the equipment and sharing with folks who visited.
Thank you all.
This whole thread is a a celebration of not only Reuben's life, but of all the folks who broke the ground for us. Also, I hope it sparks an interest in some of the young folks here to hang out with some of those "grumpy old people". Walk a mile in their shoes and try to get what they are saying, hard as it can be. You will never regret it.
Thanks for that pic Dave. That is the very sunset view Reuben and I enjoyed many times. What a view!
I am working on getting a display figured out for the Sundre museum where Reuben spent many days fixing the equipment and sharing with folks who visited.
Thank you all.
For any folks interested, the funeral will take place at the Bergen Missionary Church on Tuesday at 2PM. There will be coffee and cake after.
Rob Erickson of Scalp Creek Outfitters will be taking the casket up to the cemetary by horse and wagon. Just how Reuben would have wanted it.
Rob Erickson of Scalp Creek Outfitters will be taking the casket up to the cemetary by horse and wagon. Just how Reuben would have wanted it.
leveractionjunkie
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Sorry for your loss Noel. That was a great post, I really enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing your wonderful family history with us. You are lucky to have so many pictures and pieces of your families past.
Sorry to hear of your loss, but glad to have heard of him. Sounds like a remarkable man.
The pictures are something else - I worry what will happen to all our pictures and memories now that they're all digital and easily lost.
The pictures are something else - I worry what will happen to all our pictures and memories now that they're all digital and easily lost.
I have been very blessed as far as having lots of pictures, these barely scratch the surface. They are most of the ones from Reuben's past that seem to fit here. I'll never forget the look on "Whynot's" face when he walked in the batcave. The one raised eyebrow as he scanned the room and Marg saying "Oh my...."
It is a mini museum of our families history. You'd either think its great or think I am certifiable. Either way you might be right. I'm sure even Davey will concur.
Yes, and I can still remember the "feeling" that day. It was like literally walking back in time. Marg and I were talking about it again recently.
My sincere condolences to you and all your family, Noel. Wish I could have met him. You are a blessed man...............
Ted
My sincere condolences to you and all your family, Noel. Wish I could have met him. You are a blessed man...............
Ted
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Yes Noel, you did an amazing job on the family history room! You are so very lucky to have first hand contact with your rich family history, as I am sure you already know. I am always amazed at your determination to dig up the significant details.
I am sure Reuben was impressed with your interest and will always be proud of you for keeping the story alive.
Noel, we have communicated before, but I had no idea you had done so much for presrving your hisory. It's great, both the history and the way you are preserving it. If all goes well, there is a good chance you will receive another visitor or two next spring, from over the hills from the direction of the setting sun!
What you have written on these threads should be published in, at least, a national magazine. But I haven't a clue as to any Canadian publication that would be the slightest interested in it. Actually, the Backwoodsman Magazine, printed in Texas, has printed three feature length articles of mine. One was on the homesteading era, one on shooting game for survival and one on wilderness camping. I had a lot of good comment from readers on those, but amazingly, every one who contacted me was from the USA! Not one Canadian contacted me, yet the magazine has wide circulation in Canada. One fellow from Alaska wanted information on raising farm chickens!
I'm a great believer in preserving our history, but it is hard to get it out there. As many of you know, I was able to get a book published a few years ago that recorded considerable history of the life and times in the northern areas of BC. This was only from the era of the 1950s, but that area and way of life has changed so much that younger people just have no idea of what it was like. And so little of it has been recorded. Go to your library and see what you can find on that great age of trappers and prospectors in their little log cabins, all over the place, and the now gone, wilderness trading posts they got their supplies from, in a vast area completely devoid of roads.
I personally grew up in the hinterlands of Saskatchewan in bush homestead country on the extreme northern edge of farm land, in the 1930s. Only someone who has been there can completely comprehend just what things were like. Such as the water pail frozen solid in the morning, if Dad didn't get up in the night to keep the fire going. Or walking two or three miles to the log schoolhouse when it was so cold we all had to move our desks close around the huge barrel stove to kep warm, until the building warmed up. So much history and so much drama.
I wrote a book length story on this, actually, before I wrote the book that got published. Many book publishers have read it. The verdict is always the same. We really like your story and would like to publish it, but, we don't think there would be enough reader interest in it to make it worthwhile for us. In other words, not enough Canadians care enough about our history, to buy a book. One publisher told me that by all means it should be published and the Saskatchewan archives should have a copy.
Noel, don't let this discourage you. You have a great story and are good at telling it. You should get it out there.
What you have written on these threads should be published in, at least, a national magazine. But I haven't a clue as to any Canadian publication that would be the slightest interested in it. Actually, the Backwoodsman Magazine, printed in Texas, has printed three feature length articles of mine. One was on the homesteading era, one on shooting game for survival and one on wilderness camping. I had a lot of good comment from readers on those, but amazingly, every one who contacted me was from the USA! Not one Canadian contacted me, yet the magazine has wide circulation in Canada. One fellow from Alaska wanted information on raising farm chickens!
I'm a great believer in preserving our history, but it is hard to get it out there. As many of you know, I was able to get a book published a few years ago that recorded considerable history of the life and times in the northern areas of BC. This was only from the era of the 1950s, but that area and way of life has changed so much that younger people just have no idea of what it was like. And so little of it has been recorded. Go to your library and see what you can find on that great age of trappers and prospectors in their little log cabins, all over the place, and the now gone, wilderness trading posts they got their supplies from, in a vast area completely devoid of roads.
I personally grew up in the hinterlands of Saskatchewan in bush homestead country on the extreme northern edge of farm land, in the 1930s. Only someone who has been there can completely comprehend just what things were like. Such as the water pail frozen solid in the morning, if Dad didn't get up in the night to keep the fire going. Or walking two or three miles to the log schoolhouse when it was so cold we all had to move our desks close around the huge barrel stove to kep warm, until the building warmed up. So much history and so much drama.
I wrote a book length story on this, actually, before I wrote the book that got published. Many book publishers have read it. The verdict is always the same. We really like your story and would like to publish it, but, we don't think there would be enough reader interest in it to make it worthwhile for us. In other words, not enough Canadians care enough about our history, to buy a book. One publisher told me that by all means it should be published and the Saskatchewan archives should have a copy.
Noel, don't let this discourage you. You have a great story and are good at telling it. You should get it out there.
