Hans Ivor Lund (b.1843-Sept-09, d.1936.) - great grandfather to Mark Lund

1843 - Hans Ivor Lund born in Tonning, Kronstead, Jels, Denmark/Schleswig-Holstein (now Germany)
1850-May-08 - future wife Anna Johanna Wilhelmina Moller born in Elba, So. Schleswig, Germany
1864 - Prussia annexed Schleswig-Holstein (H.I. "draft doger" from Prussian Army!)
1865 - immigrated, landed in Montreal, Canada
1866 - Anna Moller (Moeller) immigrated to the USA
** Uncle Pete's Diary  received from Marni Fedoruk 01-June-11, Uncle Pete is Anna Moller's brother, and this portion of his diary appears to cover a period of his life from mid-adolecence and his hardships in Denmark, to his early days in the USA, including a period spent in the American frontier.
18?? - moved to northern/mid-west USA
1869-Jun-10 - H.I. married Anna Moller in Charlotte, Iowa (Clinton County)
*(Anna (nee Moller) Lund, Hans Ivor Lund, and the Parents of Hans Ivor Lund:  photos from William Thornton-Trump)
** Marni Fedoruk reports (May, 2001) that Hans Ivor's father was Iver Hansen, and grandfather was Hans Iversen.  She also reports that Hans Ivor may have spelled the Ivor with an "e" too.  Marni is also a granddaughter of Olga (nee Lund) Thornton-Trump, and a cousin to Bill (William Thornton-Trump) below.
***May '01, Correspondence with William Thornton-Trump regarding his grandmother Olga and the Lund  family
**** Olga Thornton-Trump Interview: October 1972 with William (Bill) Thornton-Trump
- Hans and Anna's offspring included: Anna Christina (b.1872,d.1947-Aug-24, m.???? Irv Geissinger), Nicholas Hans (b.1874-Feb-18, d.??, m. Ada), Gartis Ivor (b.1880, d.1894), Jenny (b.1876-April, d.1907, m. Fred Fleming, died in childbirth), Lilly (b.1878, d.1881?), Robert Arthur (see below), Olga (b.1885-July-03 in Spirit Lake, Iowa, m.1906-Dec-18 to Walter Edward Thornton-Trump; d.1977-June15 in Seal Beach (near Los Angeles), CA, buried in Forest Lawn  Cemetary, Burnaby, B.C. with husband Walter), Myrtle (b.1887-Jul-22), and Cala Aglo (b.1890-Jul-4, m.Samuel Victor Day, d. 1946-Jun-03 of Cancer in Spokane Washington).

- While in Charlotte, H.I. invented the Diamond Tooth Harrow. Here are his carriage and blacksmith shop in 1878, 1880, and about 1885 with a Harrow leaned up against the wall.  RA Lund wrote on the back of this last picture; "This is the harrow Dad Lund patented.  He sold "patent wrights" all over the state of Iowa, raised about $2000.00. He tried to sell Herbert Hoover's father [the] wrights.
1889 or 90 - moved to Milford, Dickson County, Iowa
1898 - H.I.'s (or R.A.'s) brothers attempted the trip to the Klondike through Edmonton; on their return stated that: Gold was not in the Yukon, but in the black soils of central Alberta.
1901 - Andrew H. Lund (Hans Ivor's brother) homesteaded at north end of Pine Lake. (d. 1931, buried in Red Deer Cemetery)
1902 - Hans Ivor moved to Red Deer and took a CPR 1/2 section just N.E. of the town.
1912 - H. I. sold the farm to son, R.A. Lund
1926 - Anna Lund died - Santa Monica, California
1936 - H.I. Lund died - in Los Angeles/Santa Monica, California
- notes (February, 2001) by P.A. (Bud) Lund about H.I.'s siblings and their decendants.

Philisk Pidgeon - great grandfather to Mark Lund

1857 - Philisk Pidgeon born in Toronto, Ontario
1864 - furture wife Mary Holmes born in Forest, Ontario
1885 - came west with CPR to Maple Creek, Saskatchewan as station agent.
1888 - July 4th, married in Forest, Ontario, returned to Maple Creek Saskatchewan
1888 - in the fall, the Phil Pidgeon was assigned to Morley by CPR as station agent.

P.A. Lund recently (01June08) related the following about his Grandfather, Phil Pidgeon.  P.A. some years ago at a "Lodge" meeting in Calgary was approached by an older member and asked if he had ever known Phil Pidgeon.  P.A. of course replied that Phil had been his grandfather.  This Calgary member then asked if he (P.A.) had ever heard how Phil Pidgeon had rid the town of Banff of its stray dogs.  This gentleman then went on to relate how Phil, one fall in the early 1890s, when filling in for the Banff Station agent who was on holidays, completed this task.  This gentleman noted that in those days it was not uncommon for Calgarians after a summer of holidaying in Banff to leave their pets behind for whatever reason.  Phil was appraised of this situation when attending a Board of Trade meeting for the regular Station Agent.  Phil offered to do his part, and help out.  The story has it, that he then went to the local butcher, and collected a very large bag of bones.  These he scattred about town, and then left a trail bones to a nearby spur, on which there was an empty box car destined for Cochrane in the next day or two.  In this car he left the majority of the bones.  In no time flat the boxcar contained most of the stray dogs happily knawing away.  The boxcar doors were closed and the dogs were soon on their way to Cochrane. Of course, there is  no mention in this story about how the townsfolk of Cochrane took to all the new arrivals.

1893 - Phil Pidgeon was assigned as the first Station Agent for CPR in Red Deer. Phil Pidgeon picture about 1910
19??s - Phil Pidgeon joined in the real estate firm Pidgeon & Lindsay (sp?) and had their office next to the Buffalo Hotel on Ross Street in Red Deer.  In part he acted as a land agent for the CPR.
Gravesite for Phil and Mary in the Red Deer Cemetary

William Birchmore - great grandfather to Mark Lund

1864 - William Birchmore born (died 1942)
1888 - married Sarah Maria Balsham (nee Norris) b1862 d 1944
 - offspring include: Ernest (b1889 d 1952) Walter (b 1891 d 1951) Frederick (1893 d 1975) George James (b1895 d 1916 K.I.A. in France) Harriett Kathleen (b1896 d 19??) Harold (b 1898 d 1987) Rosa (1901 d ????) Edward Norris (1903- 1985) Charles (1905 d 1986)
 - 1933 Birchmore clan picture with William and Sarah in the center, and with just the children
 - 1941 Sarah Birchmore with Ernest Birchmore, Gwen and baby John Voice: theFour Generations

William Batchelor - great grandfather to Mark Lund
18?? - Willam Batchelor born
18?? - future wife Caroline
18?? - married, and in later life.
1889 - Nellie Batchelor, born September 18, Dunsfold, England, U.K. d. March, 1963

Robert Arthur Lund (b.1883-Jul-6, m.1918, d.1963) - grandfather to Mark Lund

1883 - Robert Arthur Lund, born July 6, in Charlotte, Iowa, U.S.A., died, 1963, buried in Red Deer Cemetary
1890 - future wife Elizabeth Ensley Pidgeon, born January 9, in Forest Ontario, died January 1927, buried in Red Deer Cemetary
- "Lizzie" Pidgeon on Red Deer Ladies Hockey team about 1909
 - Elizabeth Pidgeon about 1911
1918 - R.A. Lund married E. Pidgeon in St. Lukes Anglican church Red Deer.
 - R.A. Lund family about 1927, Marie (b. February 6, 1919), Verna (b. September 5, 1920) and Phillisk (Bud) (b. March 30, 1922).
- fall 1923 the R.A. Lund family moved to Santa Monica, then Venice, California, for the health of  Lizzie, who suffered and eventually died from asthma, and complications from asthma (January 27, 1929 in Red Deer).  Some pictures of P.A. (Bud) in Santa Monica, and Venice. More pictures of the Marie, Verna and P.A. in California, #1, #2   R.A. sold fertilizer and insecticides which eventually led to job with the Los Angeles School Division in the landscaping Department.  The income from farm in Red Deer was very good so did not need a good job. The family moved to Vancounver early Spring 1926 . R.A. sold Maytag washing machines which included demonstrations in private homes. The family returned Red Deer in September 1927 and R.A. sold insurance.  R.A.'s Family in Red Deer about 1930.
- 1932 - May 31, R.A. Lund remarries to Olive Houghton
- R.A. Lund and step-grand son Peter about 1940 or '41??
- R.A. and Olive (Ma Lund) with Eileen Lund and Ernest Birchmore in 1948
- R.A. Lund about 1949.
- Marie Lund (Nielsen, then Fleming) : along Red Deer river (about 1940 or '41), and husband Walt Nielsen (1940 or '41). In 1949 the Nielsen family moved to Taber, Alberta,  after Walt bought the local furniture store.
- 1963 - R.A. died at the Rosedale Home in Camrose, Alberta, and is buried in the Red Deer Cemetary (Gravesite).
- 1963 - Olive died and is buried with her first husband in the Red Deer Cemetary (Gravesite).
- 1985 - Marie, Phillisk and Verna

Ernest Birchmore - grandfather to Mark Lund

- Ernest Birchmore, born October 26, in Wimbledon, England, U.K. d. January, 1952
- Ernest married Nellie Batchelor on December 25, 1911
- family include Bill (b.1912-Sept-26; d. 92-Aug-01), Gwen (b.1914-June-01; d. August, 1989), Basil (b.1915-Dec-15;) and Eileen (b.1923-Oct-17;)
- Ernest and Nelly with first son Bill, about 1913
- Birchmore Family with Bill, Basil and Gwen in about 1917, with Ernest and Nelly with Bill and Eileen in 1929, with grandson John Voice at Daux Avenue garden, Ernest and Nellie in later life, Ernest about 1950.

- Bill Birchmore: in Home Guard Uniform (1940), his Malaya Garage (about 1950), and with Aunt Jean at the Slinfold home (1990).

- Gwen Birchmore: with sister Eileen at Torquay (1938),  with husband Aubrey Voice (1960s?), and with Harold Merrick (1960s?).  One son: John (b 19?? ).
   - John Voice's wedding with Jean (late 1960s?)

- Basil Birchmore: as a graduate from officer school (1939), riding in India (1941 or '42), with first wife Jean (1945), with Jean and baby Jim (only son, b. 194?) (1946), with second wife Jean (about 1955), and with third wife Edith (1967).  And, Uncle Basil, with fourth wife Jean, Eileen Lund and Mark, Lois, Hans, Anna & Eric Lund August, 1993.

- Eileen Birchmore: first picture, in 1925, the back view - with sports fields - of Horsham High School for Girls (1935), and with Dorthy Ayre and Lillian Browne (1937).
- Eileens dogs: Bonzo and friend (1930),  Rex at Daux Avenue Home (1950).
- Eileen's sometime baby sitter, Mrs Jeffrey (1930) and the Daux Avenue Home (1946) in which she mostly grew up.
- Eileen with father Ernest on way into 1945 wedding to P.A. Lund
- Eileen in 1946 or so, photo, sent home to P.A.

Phillisk Arthur Lund - father to Mark Lund

- P.A. (bud) outside of  the Red Deer home in about 1930+?.
- P.A. in uniform in 1939, and as part of the award winning 78th Field Battery (check the lower right!).
- 1941 - November 2nd  P.A. Lund boarded, and on the 4th, departed from Halifax - Phillisk (Bud) Lund goes overseas!
- Phillisk Lund: in Uniform on Calgary streets (1945)
- 1945 - July 11 - Phillisk Lund marries Eileen Birchmore, and honeymoons at the Parkers in Wigan, and a shot of the hosts and friends (1945)
- Lunds return to Red Deer to the flower business.  Bud, Eileen & Skipper outside a greenhouse (1947) , and Bud in the south greenhouse (1948).
- Red Deer in the 1950's with the site of Lund's Flowers noted (right center).
- 1951 - the family begins: Mark (1951), Curtiss (1954) and Madelaine (1957). Eilleen with the boys (about 1956) in a local park.
  - Mark: held by his father (early 1952), with Curtiss - posed! (1954), on Gaetz Ave near the shop (1955), outside the suite behind the shop (1956), and with Duchess for Grad Nine Grad (1965).
  - 1954/55 - Nellie Birchmore and Lillian Brown visited for one year over the birth of Curtiss.  With Eileen, baby Curtiss and Nanna Birchmore outside the suite (1955), and Lillian, Nanna, Eileen and Mark on a drive to Kootenay Plains (1955).
- an early shot of Mark (1954), with Eileen & Curt and on the "trike" (1956) and with Curtiss and Madelaine (1957).
- Mark and Curtiss, "the fighters" on visit in Hanna, about 1959
- 1959 - Eilleen Lund takes Mark, Curtiss, (two rough and ready cowboys) and Madelaine to England for three months!  A 14 hour flight, Madelaine crys for the first dozen hours.  Plane has to land in Greenland to refuel on the way east, and Frobisher Bay on the return.  Lund - Birchmore reunion near Oxford, Madelaine's 2nd Birthday party in England.
- an 1963 family portrait.
- 1965 - the Lund's take a rare holiday -- 3 weeks to Disneyland in July. A breakfast on the way outside of Lake Townsend.  Then Mark returns, and goes east by CPR  for the first National Scout Swimming Championships, in Hudson, Quebec, August.  While Mark's down east, the family chooses the first purebreed pet -- Duchess our Collie!
- Curtiss Lund: Grade Nine Grad picture with Prince (1969), in 1973 he married Mary Simpson in Red Deer. Curt and Mary in 1998.
- Madelaine Lund: with Duchess, Prince and mum on driveway of south hill home,  Grade Nine Grad picture with Rahj and Duke (1971), and as a Halloween Prince (1970) next to the South Hill house fireplace, and training with Cyrus (1971 or '72).
- 1971 - Mark buys first "New" car -- a '72 Toyota Corolla -- and look who's modelling it!
- 1975 - Phillisk (Bud) Lund meets retired Govenor General Roland Michener.
- About 1977 - Mark Lund and Ted Bentley (C-2) at Provincial White Water Slalom championships.
- 1989 article about P.A. in the Red Deer Advocate.
- 1998 - Lund Family picture taken for Eileens 75th Birthday in October
- 1999 - Canadian Government takes Bud Lund on tour of Canadian W.W.II cemeteries in Europe, including the one at Bayeux. Tour write-up (the Gov't never could spell Phillisk)

Red Deer and Lund's Flowers - Red Deer's Florists

- Red Deer in 1947, south and north views, taken from the S.E.
- 1963 article/ad for the shop in Red Deer Advocate 50th Anniversary Review for the City
- 1983 article about the shop when closing in the Red Deer Shopper.

Mark Ernest Robert Lund

1978 - June 12th - Mark marries Lois Samis.  The happy couple escaping the church - Robertson - Wesley in Edmonton!  The receiving line with some Lunds up front.  Curtiss and Madelaine leaving the Chapel.  Bud Lund and Madelaine Lund outside the church.  The reception was held at the Bill Samis residence, at the top of "the Saskatchewan."  The new Lunds, and senior Lunds at Bill's.  Eileen, Curtiss and Mary Lund relaxing at the Samis residence / reception.