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Alida Kristine Sandeen-Thulien
b. 03/23/1886 - d. 01/10/1925
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Alida Kristina Sandeen - Thulien, 03/23
1886-01/10 1925. Daughter of Christine (Larsson)
and Ola Sandeen. She was born in her grandparent's
home in Lassbo, Hedemora, where her mother stayed
for a time before her confinement. Married
07/14/1911 to Ole Thulien at her sister Bettie's
home in McIntosh, Minnesota. Ole was born in
Lillehammer, Norway, and died 07/09 1943 in
Veteran, Alberta.
Alida arrived in the USA 07/27/1891 together
with her parents and her siblings, Bettie, Evald
and Emil.
Before Alida married she worked as a maid for a
family named Clements in Chicago. Most likely,
Marie Brevitz, her aunt, obtained the job for
her.
Alida was an attractive woman, 5' 2" tall,
medium built with dark hair and blue eyes.
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She was a good homemaker, she sewed, crocheted and knitted,
and she was a good cook, too. She taught her girls to
properly manage a household. After the birth of her daughter
Lorraine. Alida was bedridden until she died. She had a
heart condition and other serious health problems.
Her Husband - Ole
Thulien
Ole arrived in the US together with his widowed mother
and four other family members. The family settled near
McIntosh. During the first two years in this country, Ole
worked as a tailor in Ross, Mountrail County, North
Dakota.
In 1908 he and his brother Tom went to Canada to claim
homestead land. They filed claims on adjoining sites near
the present Veteran, Alberta. The following year they
returned by train from Minnesota with farm equipment and
other necessary material. At that time the railroad ended 80
miles from their homesteads. With their teams of oxen they
were able to travel about 20 miles per day across the
prairie with their gear and provisions.
At first they tented on Ole's land, and to safeguard
themselves and their belongings from prairie fires, they
plowed up a fire break around the site. They immediately set
about digging a well by pick and shovel, using a pulley with
a bucket to remove the dirt. Then they built a two-room sod
house 14'x 24' and a barn 26'x 32'. Poles for these
structures and firewood had to be hauled from a place called
Nose Hills, a distance of 25 miles.
Ole's place was a popular stop-over for travellers. He
was a good cook and baker and many nights the house was
packed with land-seeking settlers or travellers, their oxen
and horses. In the spring of 1910 Ola and Tom started
breaking land with oxen hitched to a 16" sulky plow. Then in
1911 Ole returned to Minnesota to marry Alida and to bring
her to Canada and the little sod house on the prairie. In
1912 the railroad came to within 6 miles of the homesteads
and the town of Veteran was founded. Mail and supplies now
reached them regularly. Eventually, Ole built a substantial
house and barn, and a schoolhouse was built near the farm
(Rae grade school). The teacher boarded with the Thuliens.
In 1926 Ole purchased the International Harvester agency in
Veteran, and the family moved to town. He leased the farm to
a neighbour. He operated the Harvester agency until his
death.
Her Children
- KERMIT Emanuel THULIEN, born 07/31/1917 in
Veteran, son of Alida (Sandeen) and Ole Thulien. Married
"17 1945 to Jean Thoroughman, born 08/02/1919 in Big
Valley, Alberta. She has been a schoolteacher.
As a teenager Kermit worked part-time in his father's
International Harvester agency and BP service station in
Veteran. His first job was to deliver gasoline and and
oil by truck to the farmers in 45-gallon drums. He also
hauled grain from the farms to the elevator in Veteran.
In 1936 Kermit suggested that he pick up the new Dodge
cars, sold by his father's agency, at the factory in
Ontario instead of having them shipped. This way of doing
it proved quite profitable. When his uncle Bill, who had
a car dealership in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, learned
of the arrangement, he offered a similar deal: taking
delivery of the cars at his business location at
wholesale cost. Kermit would drive one car and tow
another.
This was a most satisfactory arrangement and
profitable for the parties involved from 1937 to the
beginning of WW II when production of civilian autos was
halted.
In 1938 Kermit was offered the position as manager for
Alberta Pacific Grain Company's elevator facility in
Veteran. This was most agreeable to him as he then could
continue working with his father. He worked for the grain
company until 1945, when he resigned to give his full
attention to the family business which he had purchased
from his father's estate.
Kermit visited his grandmother Christine in Minnesota
quite often; the first time when he was eight years old
and the last time when she was 99. When he came she used
to to call out: "Vi har storfrdmmande fran Kanada;
Alida's pojk -~i har!" ( We have important company from
Canada; Alida's boy is here).
Kermit and Jean enjoy their retirement in British
Columbia. They have three children
- JANUCE, married to Alain Fawcett. They reside in
Forestburg, Alberta.
- CAMERON and wife JANE live in Vancouver, British
Columbia,
- GAVIN, married to JOAN - They make their home in
Ottawa, Ontario.
- BEULAH Lorinda Theodora THULIEN-BURNS, born
05/25/1912 in Veteran, Alberta. Daughter of Alida
(Sandeen) and Ole Thulien. Married 07/06/1947 to RONALD
BURNS, born 01/20/1920 in Belfast, Ireland, died 11/09
1978 in Coronation, Alberta (heart attack) . Beulah
graduated from high school in Veteran, and after
attending college and taking a business course at Garbutt
Business College in Calgary she acquired a position with
a government office in Consort, Alberta. She remained
there eight years, the later part of those years as chief
clerk. She resigned her position 1944 and obtained
employment as secretary with an accounting firm in
Calgary. She stayed with the firm until 1947.
In 1947 Beulah and her sister Ruby bought a general
store in Veteran, and when Ruby married, Ronald became
part-owner in the business. He had previous experience in
the clothing business, and men's clothing was added to
their stock. The business prospered and they carried on
with their enterprise for 32 years. During WW II Ronald
served as a medical orderly in the Canadian Army, and
after the invasion of the Continent 1944, he served in
Holland and Italy.
In 1929 her uncle, Bill Sandeen, invited Beulah and
her cousin, Earnie Thulien, to accompany him on a trip to
California. On that trip they called on grandfather Ola's
brother, John (Jons) Sandeen and his family in Molalla,
Oregon and her relatives in Minnesota. Beulah visited her
Minnesota kin quite frequently in her younger years.
In 1975 she made a trip to Israel together with her
aunts, Helga and Viola Sandeen.
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Beulah and Ronald's adopted son, Munro, operates
a catering business in Veteran and Red Deer,
Alberta. In Veteran, Beulah assists him by
preparing the food for banquets, weddings, etc. She
also does his bookkeeping. A good friend of
Beulah's opened a gift- and tea shop in Veteran,
and Beulah attends to the tea- and coffee customers
and serves scones, muffins, tarts and cakes. In her
it spare-time" she is active in the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the frull Gospel Church in Veteran and
in the Veteran Women's Institute.
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- Kermit MUNRO BURNS, born 02/16/1953 in Calgary,
Alberta. Adopted at the age of six months by Beulah
(Thulien) and Ronald Burns.
Munro had his early schooling in Veteran and in
Edmonton, Alberta. After his high school graduation he
studied at Eston Bible School in Eston, Saskatchewan,
for three years. In 1976 he graduated from Southern
Alberta Institute of Technology's School of Nursing
and then worked for a year at Holy Cross Hospital in
Calgary. When his father died he moved back to Veteran
to assist his mother in her store. When she sold it he
started a catering business in Veteran 1980, and in
1993 he bought a sandwich shop in Red Deer, Alberta,
where he also does catering. Munro is not married. His
address and telephone is the same as his
mother's.
- RUBY Elida Geneva THULIEN-THUMOTH, 09/17/1913
- 04/25/1988, daughter of Alida (Sandeen) and Ole
Thulien. She was born in Veteran, Alberta. Married
12/19/1956 to Lloyd Thu moth, a widower with two grown
children. He was born in Belmont, Manitoba, and died
04/27/1990 in Calgary.
Ruby attended elementary and high school in Veteran
and Alberta Business College in Edmonton, Alberta. Later
she assisted her father in his farm equipment and auto
repair business in Veteran. After his death she worked
for a time for her brother, Kermit, who had taken over
the business. In 1945 she moved to Calgary to work for
Alberta Hail and Crop Insurance Company. She returned to
Veteran 1947 and together with her sister Beulah and her
husband purchased a general store. After her marriage in
1956, she and her husband moved to Redland, Alberta.
Since 1927 Lloyd was employed by Alberta Wheat Pool,
first in Hemaruka, Alberta, south of Veteran. A year
later he became a buyer for the company. He retired in
1970 and they moved to Calgary.
Ruby and Lloyd had no children.
- LORRAINE Alvira THULIEN-GILBERT, born
11/18/1924 in Veteran, Alberta. Daughter of Alida
(Sandeen) and Ole Thulien. Married 06/021/1947 to Osborne
(Asbjorn) Olsen; born 09/09/1922 in Narvik, Norway.
Divorced 1969. Remarried 01/031/1974 to Jim Gilbert, born
02/14/1922 in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Lorraine was six months old when her mother died, and
she was raised by her uncle, Tom Thulien, and his wife,
Thilda, on their farm near Veteran. At the age of
thirteen she joined her own family in town. Lorraine has
been a hair dresser and a clerk with Alberta Government
Telephone Co. During WW II, Lorraine's second husband,
Jim Gilbert, served in the Canadian Army's Fourth
Antitank Regiment and participated in operations in
France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. In the Korean War
he was an artillery sergeant attached to the Twenty-fifth
Brigade Headquarters. Following his fifteen years of
military service, he was employed by the Post Office and
retired in 1980.
- MAUREEN Gaye Olsen-Quellet, born 12/02 1949
in Calgary, Alberta. Daughter of Lorraine (Thulien)
Gilbert and Osborne Olsen. She is a telephone
operator. Married 04/07 1973 to Paul Quellet, born
11/13 1949 in Calgary. Divorced 1985. Maureen and
Paul's children:
- JAMES DOUGLAS, born 09/02 1977.
- CHRISTOPHER (CHRIS), born 10/27 1979,
- NICOLE LORRAINE and JANELLE JOANNE; twins born
09/02/1980.
- JANET Kaye Olsen-Cruz Verde, born 12/14
1951 in Calgary. Daughter of Lorraine (Thulien)
Gilbert and Osborne Olsen. She is a nurse. Married
10/08/1977 to Emelio Cruz Verde, born 08/08/1953 in
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. He is a restaurant
manager. Janet and Emilio's children:
- LISA Lenea, born 11/17/1980
- MICHAEL James, born 05/09/1985. Both children
were born in Surrey, British Columbia.
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