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Turning back the pages …
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 by GetawayBC.com
It seems impossible that I could have been here this long, but I started work at the museum in the spring of 1990. So this is my nineteenth year here. When I first came I was fresh from my job at Star Video Rentals where I had on a daily basis, worked with everything new and leading edge, so I must admit it was a bit of culture shock to take on this job where all of a sudden I was working with everything old. My first request for information was from the Glenbow Museum. They were looking for information on a lawyer named Thomas O’Brien, who defended a murderer in Golden in 1900.
Having no idea what was in the archives, I set their request aside while I learned my way around. Within a few days I had come across Thomas’ name several times, but not enough information to determine if he had relatives somewhere.
Two weeks after starting I came across Thomas O’Brien’s obituary. It contained the information that the Glenbow Museum was looking for. They were looking for a relative whom the government of Canada could give a medal of recognition to. It seems that Thomas had been an important person in Manitoba’s history and they wanted to finally say thank you.
I sent the information and received a thank you back. Since that time I have come across a great deal of information, enough to become a friend to someone who died 47 years before I was born. Each year at Easter time I make a pilgrimage to the Golden Cemetery with flowers for my grandmother, Jennie Allen, my mother-in-law, Lorraine Palumbo, my mother, Jenny Barbour and my father Harold Rauch,