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August 4, 1940 - May 26, 2021
Bert passed away peacefully May 26, 2021 at the age of 80 following a week in palliative care in the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre following a short battle with cancer. He cherished the visits he was able to have with his family.
Bert was born in the Drumheller hospital August 4, 1940 to Harry & Florence Hanson. He graduated from Morrin High School and began working with Alberta Government Telephones (AGT, now Telus) working with the tech guys and on call for phone transition problems. This is where he met Grace Hunter, whom he married in 1961, moved to Edmonton where they started their family with two boys. In the mid 60’s they purchased their first home in an upstart community named Sherwood Park where eventually a daughter became part of the family in 1971. They moved to Brooks in 1973, working in oilfield construction. Their fourth child, a boy, was born shortly after moving to Brooks. He took an interest in welding, obtained his welder certifi
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Publishing date: Mar 02, 2021 • March 2, 2021 • 6 minute read • • IMG 0001 – The sign depicts the NAR (Northern Alberta Railways), telegraphs and poles, which held lines by which telegraphs were transmitted; then once telephone lines were “flung” on them, they served both telegraph and telephone transmission. As we learned, although the Peace Country was far from more populated areas, it received these technologies in advance of the larger ones. It didn’t happen without a great deal of planning and effort by the companies involved and the crews working on the projects overcoming all manner of impediments – weather, equipment and terrain among them. Photo by SUPPLIED
Telephone lines continued to ring true to the plan of Alberta Government Telephones to extend its operations north to Dixonville in 1946 and Battle River…
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