Age: 133.
Employer: Self employed - Rosedale Coal & Clay Products - known locally as Rosedale Mine or Moodie Mine.
Job title: President / Owner / Mine Manager / Camp Medic.
Hobbies and interests? Shooting, Hunting, Prospecting, Flying Aeroplanes, Driving Motorcars.
Favourite food? Steak & Kidney Pie, or whatever my cook Shorty prepares at the Rosedale Mine cookhouse.
Favourite colour? Black Gold, of course.
What would you do with $1 million? Purchase state-of-the-art electrified mining equipment for my mine, and a new school for the miner’s children that may also double as a night school for the immigrant miner.
What three things would you bring to a desert island? My wife Lucy, Phonographic Record Player and Records, Bathing Costume. I think that’s more than three.
Where in the world do you wish to travel to most? I’ve travelled throughout the Commonwealth and the Dominion, but the foothills, mountains and particularly the badlands of Alberta are my favourites.
What’s your dream car? 1912 Norwalk Underslung Six.
If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who’d it be? Sir John A. Macdonald. He had a vision of building a nation and opening the west.
Who’s your hero? Sir William McKenzie, Canadian entrepreneur and owner of Canadian Northern Railway.
What are your words of wisdom? There are two sides to every story - especially when it comes to mines and managers.
Favourite sports team? Rosedale F.C. (soccer), Rosedale Rangers (hockey), Rosedale Midways (Baseball).
Coke or Pepsi? Sarsaparilla.
How long have you lived in Drumheller? 1911-1921.
What do you like the most? Being in the great outdoors, reading poetry with my wife, tending to the boys at the mine camp.
What would you change? Remove squalor and discontent from the other Valley coal mines.
