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Roy William Devore was born in 1891. He was appointed the first custodian of the John Walter Historic Site Museum in Edmonton, Alberta in 1959. He wrote “The Third Column” in the Edmonton Journal through the 1950’s and 1960’s. He also authored several historical articles and pamphlets. Roy William Devore died on 28 Nov 1969.

William, known as Bill, Magee was born 23 May 1862 to Sophia Jamieson and James Magee in Blyth, Huron County, Ontario. He came west to Alberta in 1895 and filed for a homestead at Rabbit Hill. However he was attracted to adventure so he left for the Klondike on the ‘Trail of 98’ (1898). Unfortunately there was a great deal of illness over the winter due to the shortage of fresh food and Bill returned the following year without any gold.

In 1904, Bill married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Shaw and they settled on a homestead, S ½ Sec 34, Tp 44, Rg 19, in the Albury, Alberta district. Their daughter Lucy was born in 1905. Lizzie died the following year. Following the death of his wife, Bill arranged for baby Lucy to be raised by Lizzie’s sister, Victoria. Bill kept the homestead but did not farm it himself. He rented out his homestead and went to work on his brother’s Nels farm near Bawlf, Alberta. Bill retired from active farming in 1919. When daughter Lucy married in 1926, she and her husband, Stuart Lockhart, took over the homestead.

In 1943 Bill suffered a stroke and was then confined to hospital for many years.

William (Bill) Magee died 23 Jun 1955 in Edmonton and is buried at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Mary Magee was born in 1864 to Sophia Jamieson and James Magee in Blyth, Huron County, Ontario. It is not known exactly when Mary came out west, but it is suspected she was one of the earlier Magee family members to move to Alberta. Initially Mary lived with her brother Nels (Nelson) and later with other brother William.

In 1904 Mary married Robert Black. They homesteaded near Devon at Sec 22, Tp 51, R 25, W4. Mary and Robert had no children. Later Robert and Mary moved to the Edmonton area and lived at 6422 – 106 Street. In later years Mary’s sisters, Jenny and Hannah, also lived at this address.

Mary Magee Black died 11 Feb 1947 and is buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Agatha Garneau was born 12 Nov 1883 to Eleanor Thomas and Laurent Garneau in Strathona, Alberta. Agatha married Arthur Poirer and they had one child - Germaine. Agatha Garneau Poirer died in 1918 in St. Paul, Alberta.

Margaret (Maggie) Menzies was born 6 Apr 1887 to Jane McGee and David Menzies in Clinton, Ontario.

In 1913, Margaret moved to Edmonton with her parents and one brother, Robert. Her other brother, James, remained in Ontario.

In 1919, Margaret married John W. Judge in Edmonton. They had two sons – Larry and Robert.

Margaret Menzies Judge died 14 May 1970 in Edmonton.

James Noble Stephens was born on February 9, 1925 in Edmonton to Robert Noble Stephens and Laura Florence Macleod, and had two brothers, Robert George (Steve “Joe” & Nina) and Gerald Reginald (Jerry & Mary). He attended school in Edmonton, but did not graduate from high school, enlisting instead with the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve on October 14, 1943. He was discharged from the Reserves on June 12, 1944 after a bout of rheumatic fever resulted in heart damage and rendered him medically unfit for service. He married Mabel Christina Metcalfe in 1951, and they had three children: Mark, Susan and Corey.

James was employed as a clerk for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1947-1948. He enrolled in correspondence school to acquire training in the architectural field, and worked his entire career as a home and commercial designer, draftsman, and technician in the field.

In 1948 he established a business titled ‘Home and Commercial Designers’, operating it with his brother Robert, and working out of their Edmonton family home at 9417 - 95 Street. They also worked under the banner ‘Home Designers’, and moved to business premises at 9325 – 111 Avenue, Edmonton. The business operated until ca. 1953, but while continuing to work on designs, both residential and commercial, for their own business, James also began to work for the G. W. Golden Construction Ltd.

James began working for Golden Construction as a draftsman in 1950, working in this position for the Company through 1962. From 1963 to 1966 his position was titled ‘Designer’, and he was promoted to Chief Designer for G. W. Golden Construction during this time.

From 1966 to 1967, James Stephens worked as a designer and draftsman for Christenson Homes, and also did some early design work for Prudham’s Builders and MacLab Construction.

James incorporated James N. Stephens Ltd. In 1968, with the only Shareholders of the Company being James as President, and his wife, Mabel, as Secretary. The Company was operated from an office in their family home located at 4903 – 109 Avenue, Edmonton. In the Henderson’s Directories from 1968 to 1971, James is listed variously as an architectural designer, a contractor, and a building contractor. He did not advertise himself as an architect as he did not have the required formal education to achieve this designation. James retired from this last business in 1976 due to serious medical problems, and he died July 22, 1993 of congestive heart failure. His wife Mabel predeceased him on March 28, 1982.

Roman Paul Fodchuk was born in Vegreville, Alberta in 1931 to Michael and Nancy Fodchuk. As a child he moved to Hairy Hill where the family began farming. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Alberta in 1954, following which he worked as a district agriculturalists for the Alberta Department of Agriculture in the Two Hills area, near where he had grown up. In 1957 he married Adeline Youzwyshyn, a local nurse.

In 1957 he moved to California, where he worked as a landscape architect at Lawrence Halprin and Associates in San Francisco while working on a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from the University of California (Berkeley), which he completed in 1959.

Between 1959-1965 Roman Fodchuk worked as Landscape Planning Officer and Chief for the Landscape Planning Section of Canada’s National Parks Branch. While working there he also completed a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1964.

From 1965-1967 he worked as an Associate Professor in the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph, before moving to Ottawa where he worked as the Chief of the Landscape Architecture Division for the National Capital Commission until 1970. From 1970-1975 he was Assistant Director of Planning and Development, Western Region Parks Canada where he directed programing, planning, and development of National Parks, Historic Parks and Sites, Byways and Special Places in Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon.

In 1975 he moved to Alberta and began his own firm, Roman Fodchuck & Associates Ltd., with offices in Calgary and Edmonton. For the next 25 years Roman Fodchuk worked on a number of projects, most notably the Capital City Recreation Park plan, the Strathcona Ski Centre and the Science and Archaeological Museum Complex, and the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village.

In 1985 Roman Fodchuk completed post-graduate work in Arid Land Resource Sciences at the University of Arizona.

In 1990 he retired from professional work to care for his wife Adeline, who had Multiple Sclerosis. Adeline would pass away on February 6, 2003. In 2003 Roman Fodchuk resumed work on his monograph Zhorna, published in 2006 by the University of Calgary Press, a work which explores Ukrainian pioneers in Alberta specifically through the lens of their material culture.

Throughout his life, Roman had a keen interest in many things; he especially enjoyed working on his Model T Fords, collecting antique cameras, tools, and avidly reading books on all topics. He participated actively in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as a member of the Order of St. Andrew at S. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox congregation in Calgary Alberta.

Roman Fodchuk passed away on February 4, 2021 in North Vancouver, BC.

Margaret Stevenson was born in Montreal, Quebec. When Margaret was young she and her family moved to Slave Lake, Alberta where they lived for five years. In 1920 Margaret and her family moved to Edmonton, Alberta where she began to take an interest in winter sports including ice hockey. Margaret was a player for the women's hockey team the Edmonton Monarchs. In 1932 Margaret was crowned the Queen of the Banff Winter Festival; it was the first time in the festival's fifteen year history that a woman from Edmonton had won. Margaret passed away from leukemia before 1968.

W. [Willard?] Worthington was a resident of Edmonton. He worked as a coal mine pit boss and later became owner of a mine.

Alfred "Alf" Blyth was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1901. Along with his widowed mother and siblings, Alfred relocated to Edmonton, Alberta in 1913. In 1916 Alfred became a darkroom technician for photographers Percy C. Byron and Gustave May at Byron and May Co. In the following year Byron and May Co. was bought by McDermid Studios in Edmonton. Alfred continued to work for the studio until 1928 when he opened his own studio, Alfred Blyth Studios. He worked and operated his studio until his retirement in 1970. Throughout his career Alfred also worked for various newspapers including the Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Bulletin shooting commercial and news photography.
Alfred was the official photographer for several Alberta events and occasions including the Edmonton Exhibition, the Calgary Stampede, and Royal Visits in 1939, 1951, and 1959. Alfred shot the first session of the Alberta Legislature for the Aberhart administration and newsreel for Fox Movietone News. He won multiple awards as a photographer both internationally and locally including the Performing and Creative Arts award by the City of Edmonton in 1974 and the Alberta Achievement Award in 1976. His hobbies included tennis, golf, hunting, and bowling. Alfred passed away in 1980 at the age of 79.