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Fort Macleod’s Rotary Club was founded in April 1955, a world-wide organization with more than 1.2-million members. The object of…Continue Reading

JOYCE SASSE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR What would Annora Brown’s expressions of art have been like had she not been called…Continue Reading

JOYCE SASSE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR “Thanks, Miss Brown!” A letter from Vancouver included a contribution to our “digitizing project.” In…Continue Reading

JOYCE SASSE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR From her studio window on the second floor of her home in Fort Macleod Annora…Continue Reading

JOYCE SASSE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR She didn’t have Google to help her research. Nor was there a public library in…Continue Reading

Being a single woman in a couple-oriented small community is never easy. Annora Brown was no exception. She belonged to…Continue Reading

“By the 1930s artists were capturing scenes from many Canadian landscapes,” Annora Brown wrote from the Ontario College of Art. “Their canvases depicted Quebec, Ontario, outpost Winnipeg and a strip of the West Coast.” But her own prairie region “was as little known as the Antarctic landscape!” She resolved to change that omission, though I’m…Continue Reading

Contributor – Herb Johnson (who turned 80 last week) This book report will not deal with a specific novel. It…Continue Reading

JOYCE SASSE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR There’s a treasure chest of Annora Brown paintings located in the Collections and Research Archives of Calgary’s Glenbow Museum. The shame is that only occasionally have they been displayed or lent to other public institutions. The blessing is that they have been so carefully preserved they are of pristine quality.…Continue Reading