Almstrom, Adne Albin

Adne Almstrom was born on March 1, 1906 in Phoenix, BC. He was the son of Anders Albin Almstrom and May (Starks) Almstrom. He married Theresa Frankovitch, of Grand Forks, on May 28, 1938, in Grand Forks, BC. He died on February 25, 1966 in Toronto, Ontario. At the time of his death, he was living in Islington, Ontario.

At the time of the 1911 Census, he was living with his parents at  Phoenix City, BC. 

Almstrom attended Princeton High School. He was a class leader in first year high school, 1921 and was promoted to grade 11 July 1924. He didn’t pass at the end of the 1924/1925 school year.

He was elected secretary-treasurer of the newly-formed Princeton Senior Boys Athletic Association in November 1921 and he participated in the Star skating contest (open to members of the Princeton Boys’s Athletic Association) in January 1922.

In March 1923, Almstrom was working for P. Burns & Co. at Grand Forks, BC. He was in an accident at work (caught his hand in a machine and lost all of the fingers on his right hand except a small portion of the little one) and he returned to Princeton “to spend the summer with his parents” (May 1923).

He returned to work at P. Burns & Co., however, as the Princeton Star reported on April 1, 1926, that Archie Harrison had left for Calgary and his position “in the meat emporium of P. Burns & Co. [had] been taken by Adne Almstrom.”

With his brothers and sister (Edward, Emil and Ina), he motored to Grand Forks with his mother, following a trip to Spokane, Washington in July 1926.

As he was returning to Princeton from a dance at the Orange Hall in Allenby, he was in a car accident in August 1927 that wrecked the family car at the bridge over the Tulameen River – he was injured badly enough to be taken to the Princeton General Hospital. 

In December of 1927, he was attending school at Spokane, Washington. He was pledged to the Sigma Gamma Epsilon (Mining Geology and Metallurgy) at the State College  of Washington (The Chinook, 1931, page 91, 295). He is described in the yearbook as being a resident of Allenby, BC. 

After graduating, he went to work for Granby Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. as a metallurgical engineer.  

At the time of his marriage in 1938, he was working as the mill superintendent at Bralorne Mines. He was still the superintendent in 1945, 1949. (Voter’s List, 1945, 1949).

Obituary: Vancouver Sun, February 26, 1966