Almstrom, Emil Maurice
Salomie H. ( ) Almstrom “Sally”
Father: Anders Albin Almstrom (1864-1932)
Mother: May (Starks) Almstrom (1871-1951)
Sister: Ina (Almstrom) Ford
Brothers: Winfield Starks Almstrom (1901-1977); Adne Albin Almstrom (1906-1966); Marion Edward “Edward” Almstrom (c.1913- )
Emil Almstrom was born on November 19, 1903 in Grand Forks, BC. He married Salomie H. ( ). He died at home on November 1, 1985, in Lillooet, BC.
He came with his family from Phoenix to Princeton in October 1920.
In February 1925, Gardner Farrar and Emil Almstrom planned to open the Princeton-Coalmont Road, putting on a benefit dance in order to get some compensation for their work. Five men, armed with snowshovels, Farrar and “his big truck,” along with the road foreman, P.Y. Smith, headed out in snow “not more than about a foot deep,” expecting, however, that there would be heavy shovelling required at Red Bluffs.
On July 23, 1925, the Princeton Star reported that Emil Almstrom had been added to the office staff at the Kettle Valley Railway (KVR) depot.
In January 1928, he was Beaverdell, relieving the KVR agent. The Greenwood Ledger reported that he would be returning to Coalmont.
He was appointed temporary third operator at Princeton (KVR?) in March 1928.
In 1949, he was working as a timekeeper at the Bralorne Mine (Voter’s List, 1949). The were still living at Bralorne in 1956.
Birth registration (BC Archives); Death registration (BC Archives); Princeton Star, February 26, 1925, page 1; The Greenwood Ledger, January 12, 1928, page 1; Princeton Star, March 29, 1928, page 5; Nelson Daily News, September 15, 1956, page 5