Notes - Mr. Isreal Shank writes a highly detailed history of his father starting from the likely origin of his family name (Shank was the Canadian government’s version of a German origin name from the French speaking Alsace-Lorraine region) to his father’s settlement in Athabasca in 1906 where he worked, married, retired and passed away at the age of eighty-three. Mr. Eddie Shank was a farmer who won awards for agriculture locally, as well as from the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto and Chicago. Mr. Eddie was involved in local politics and was a great organizer during election times (7 pages)
