(48:14) Ole – I think I’d have to say to work in Jasper the first round (was his favourite park)…It was my boss Mickey Mcquire. Yah, such a sane guy. I enjoyed different things, but it was actually really pleasant working with him.
(48:48) It’s hard to say (what was her favourite park), but I’ll tell you I missed Banff terrible when I went. It was such an atmosphere there. We were like a big family…You know to move to Jasper and all the people were new and of course, I had never lived in a town because we had lived at Healy Creek the whole time. We moved from Healy Creek. But the town was fine, it was great and Jasper was a friendly place at that time. Maybe it still is? But at that time you walked up the street and no matter who you met they always spoke to you. Like Banff had gotten past that. You were lucky if you said hi and they answered you
(49:35) Ole – I’d go up the street in Banff and they’d say, “Hello Jack!” Jack Woledge. Then Jack would walk up the street and they’d say “Hi Ole!” We didn’t look alike I don’t think.
(49:52) Alice – At this Centennial we were at, I hadn’t seen Andy (Anderson) until we lined up for supper. Andy happened to come up to us and I said, “Hello Andy” and he looked at me and said, “Oh hello Muriel.” I said, “Well Ole’s been called Jack (Muriel’s husband), but I’ve never been called Muriel!”
(50:13) Ole – Not only him (Andy), Monrad kjorlein, he used to be in Jasper and Elk Island. He came over and he says, “Hello Muriel!” to her (Alice).
(50:33) Alice – Well my hair is not as dark as it used to be, but Muriel had dark hair and we both had red jackets on and we didn’t even know. So I said to Andy, “I said, “Nope, I’m Alice.” I don’t think he could quite put me where I was supposed to be. As far as he was concerned I was Muriel. I got a real kick out of that, because it used to happen so often with Jack Woledge (and Ole). Of course we were always we were always very good friends (with the Woledges)…
(51:28) Alice – It was good (the warden life) you didn’t exactly get along with everybody. But I mean it was good…that family thing.
(51:53) Ole – The president of the Evansburg Legion He was a great army man and he talked me into putting in for it (a job as a Warden). Because my dad was a trapper all his life. An old fashioned trapper. He’d leave and just show up, a month, two months later with a big pack of furs. He’d always come home for Christmas though and take his furs to Edmonton. We lived on the farm. But anyway, he (the president of the local legion) talked me into putting in for it and I did. I got enthusiastic about it and then they said it was all filled up. They didn’t need any more wardens. But I asked them to renew my application on the next opening…I was out looking for a job. I didn’t want to go to the mines…I tried the railroad, but I couldn’t get on. I didn’t have enough education. But veterans in the federal service were given ten points. I think that’s what got me on (with the Warden Service). Two years later after I first applied I got on. But I was already on the Forestry up at Edson. I was an Assistant Ranger for what they called the Mountain Trail. I worked with an old Swiss guy called Rocky Mountain John, John Kurat. He was quite a guy. But it was wintertime and we didn’t get out much. I was fulltime.
(55:16) Alice –They were lucky if they had six people a day go up (to Sunshine) in the wintertime. Rod Adams was the driver (of this Dodge Wagon ski bus up to Sunshine). But he was always great. Ole would be away at Healy Creek and I was pregnant and Rod always drove real slow through the yard. He was always looking and he said, “I was always wondering if there was going to be a pillow case out the window waving for help!” He always watched! One time we had friends come in and get me. They had some do to go to and they had their little girl and we had Karen. So they asked if I would come in and babysit. Ole was away, so I said sure. So they came and got me and I stayed overnight. Then I caught the bus home in the morning with Rod. I got to ride in the cab with him back to Healy Creek!
(56:10) Alice – Once we had our car and what not (at Healy Creek) it was little different. They weren’t dictating…
(56:14) Ole – Once we had our car, they took the truck away from us!
(56:23) Alice – Was it 54? (when they got their car) Talk about proud! Were we ever proud driving out of Calgary with our own car! Then we started going into Calgary and doing our grocery shopping there because it was a whole lot cheaper to go and do that. So we would go into Montgomery at this end of Calgary. We always went in and they never thought anything about it. They’d just look at you and you’d get a month’s worth of groceries. They’d say “You’re from Banff, eh?” One time we went to visit someone further in Calgary. So we thought there is a Safeway store there. We’ll go and do our shopping there. So we went in and we had all these groceries and they said, “Oh do you run a boarding house?” We thought that was so funny!
(57:21) Ole – They couldn’t believe with no power and what not, that we would have to take a month’s groceries.
(57:30) Alice – But we had it (grocery shopping for a month) down pat. I think about that time they gave us the light plant and then we got our deep freeze. Then we were well away.
(57:46) Ole – Do you know we still got that deep freeze and it still works!
(57:55) Alice – We had that (the light plant) all the time that we were there. They put in the big one to run the both places when they built the new house… And the first three things we bought were an electric motor for the washing machine, an iron and the deep freeze. I always had trouble with the gas washing machine. I never could get that sucker started! Ole would have to start it for me in the morning so we would have to have the water hot before he went to work because I could never get that going! Me and gas motors don’t work!
(58:59) Alice – Yes, we used to go in there (to the grocery store) without a list. It was pretty well the same every month. You knew just about (what you needed). We remembered things then! You could remember, “Okay we are going to run out of baking powder or whatever halfway through the month so we’d better get another one…We used to get 15 dozen eggs in a month sent in from Pine Lake on the train. It cost $0.50 to send our case back that was all. But, it didn’t cost very much, $4.50 for 15 dozen eggs. When they built the new house then we would sell half to our Assistant.
