Searching For a Home - Hauzenberger, Edward and Frieda Family

Notes - Freda Wood provides a brief history of her family, the Hauzenberqers, who immigrated to Alberta from Switzerland in 1912. Her father, Edward Hauzenberqer was born in Switzerland on April 22, 1883. Her mother, Frieda, was born on June 19, 1885, also in Switzerland. They were married in January of 1912 and immigrated to Canada the same year. They lived in Battle River County, St. Paul, Exshaw, and Calgary, before Edward, Freda (daughter) and family moved up to Athabasca. Freda married Emile Gosselin in 1933 and had two children. The family moved up to Athabasca, where Freda would teach at the South Athabasca School in 1945. Emile passed away that year, and Freda remarried Bill Wood the next year. Bill and Freda had three children together. Freda taught for 35 years in the Athabasca area. Freda's mother, Frieda passed away in 1960. After that, Edward discovered there were still homesteads available north of Athabasca. He purchased a piece of land for himself and moved a caboose up there to live in. While living out there Edward had many adventures with bears, deer and Athabasca nature. When living on the land got to be too much, he moved in with Bill and Freda. He died at the age of ninety-three (6 pages)