In response to last week’s post, former Alix resident Doug Cormack got in touch with us and shared a memory from his time at school. Mr. Cormack went to Hickling School, which is north of Alix (Stanton School is south-west of Alix).

” Thank you very much for the historical blog.  Although I had known nothing of the Jackson family I have several fond memories of Stanton School although of a rather different era.  In 1939 -1940 the teacher at Stanton was Bruce Marsh who was engaged to Mary Rasmussen, who was teaching at Hickling (a neighbouring school district at the time) and boarded with my grandparents, the Villys, in a cottage on our farm SE 23-40-23.  As I recall, Hickling supplied a cheering section at Mary & Bruce’s wedding in July 1940.  Mary and Bruce later moved to Leduc where Bruce led the school band before his untimely death in the 1970’s.”

Special thanks to Doug Cormack for sharing this story. You can find more of Mr. Cormack’s writing at the museum, where he wrote the narrative recalling his memories harvesting ice that pairs with our vintage icebox.