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Offline canadian_girl

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Re: Rocky Mountain House Alberta
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 05 January 10 22:55 GMT (UK) »
I know a kohan that lives up north of Edmonton, I will also try and give him a call. His name is John as well, wife Margaret. :) 8)

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Re: Rocky Mountain House Alberta
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 06 January 10 01:49 GMT (UK) »
I would say this might be the more likely land grant, as it is in Alberta...
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KOCHANS, John   Section 19  Township 39   Range 8   Meridian 5
Film # 3007 in Accession # 1970.313 at Provincial Archives of Alberta File # 2525867

Listed under Western Land Grants as John Kochins
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/western-land-grants/001007-100.01-e.php

Rocky Mountain House is in Section 22  Township 39  Range 7  Meridian 5
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canab/places/placesr3.html
Most of this land was owned by the three railways. CPR CNR ACR

But here is a John Kochins, and he is an older fellow, single, further East in Red Deer District in 1911...sigh
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/View.jsp?id=13788&highlight=42
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