Michael's Family

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My mother was born in Red Deer, Alberta. Her parents Frank Brinson and Marion Taylor moved west sometime in the 1940's. At this time I do not have any of my mom's family information on this web site.

My parents were married in Rossland in the Kootenay Region of British Columbia. Their families moved to there in the 1940's from the Prairies. Doria was born in the early 1940's in Ormeau, Saskatchewan. His parents Romeo Croteau and Loretta St. Pierre had a small homestead near Big River, Saskatchewan. In the late 1940's they left Saskatchewan moving to Rossland and purchased a small farm at the base of Red Mountain Ski Hill.

Romeo worked at the Cominco smelter in the nearby city of Trail. Doria has 4 younger sisters all of which reside within British Columbia. Doria's only brother the youngest child, Joseph, passed away in 1950. After the death of Romeo in 1958 Loretta sold the farm and the family moved into a house in Rossland which today is occupied by one of her daughters. Loretta passed away in the autumn of 1996.

Although I now live on southern Vancouver Island, I was born on the west coast of Canada and grew up in Gold River on northern Vancouver Island experiencing the best that mother nature has. If you like limbing, boating, fishing, hiking, caving (spelunking) Gold River is the place for you! A few years after my birth my sister Chere came along she now lives in Vancouver.

Check out the PDF of an old brochure (linked below) that circulated Western Canada many years ago attracting workers to the new pulp mill in Gold River. It is attached to this page and linked below as GR_1967.pdf