Here’s a newspaper article that was stuck in with Grandma’s memories. For those of you who may not know, her maiden name was Brown. I’ll include a photo of the whole article, but just write out the part that is about her father (Frank). This article ties us back to where Grandma was talking about the Fire in Cochrane when she was a child. I knew about the fire bit (only from what Grandma wrote), but I’d never heard of his involvement with the roads or the ranger station.

They’re quite something those Browns. Not content with filling almost three pages of the Calgary telephone directory with about 800 listings, the Brown bunch, over the years, have made history around here, too…..

An early horse rancher of the Cochrane area, Ontario-born Frank Brown, unexpectedly won the town’s gratitude. A disastrous prairie fire threatened Cochrane with extinction but Frank’s water well maintained its level. Scores of volunteers traipsed with full buckets between his place and the town to help stem the conflagration. Frank Brown helped survey and build many miles of foothills roads around Bragg Creek and, with Frank Fullerton, built the first ranger station in the Bragg Creek area.