Personalities of Red Deer

The Archives has information and records on many of the well known, and not so well known, characters who have called Red Deer home.
Red Deer Archives, P3784; Young boys at the Westerner Exhibition Fair, 1967; Red Deer Advocate Library fonds

Hilda Buckman-Crook

Hilda Buckman-Crook was an artist, an environmentalist, a poet and a pioneer. 

Visits by the Royal Family and Governors General

Since the early 1900s, members of the Royal family and Governor Generals of Canada have visited Red Deer.

Francis the Pig

A spirited little pig, determined to escape a deadly fate, kept the city of Red Deer, the province, and even the nation, riveted by his adventures in the wilds of Red Deer’s parkland.

Cottingham Family

The Cottingham's were an affluent family who loved to travel and socialize and encountered many historic figures during their lives.  

Beau Gaetz

Beau Gaetz was a rancher, trapper and guide who helped trail blaze a 1912 expedition to the Northern Rockies.

Carscallen Family

Isaac B. Carscallen, descended from United Empire Loyalists, farmed in the Napanee area his entire life. He had at least two wives and 10 children.