Sister pauline quinn biography of alberta

January 4, 1938  -  June 6, 2020  

Jim Quinn passed away at Banff Mineral Springs hospital at the age of 82 years, after a long battle with cancer and congestive heart failure.  Due to the strict hospital policies in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19, sadly Jim’s wife Ruth and sister Irene could not be present with him when he passed.   

Jim was well known in the Bow Valley horse community, and was an active member of the Banff Light Horse Association for many years.  Jim still owns the farm where he and his sister Irene grew up in the White Creek district, west of Bowden, AB. When growing up they rode horseback to the White Creek one room school which taught grades one to eight.  As a farm boy he learned to be a jack of all trades.  With a love for horses and animals, Jim’s first job, at age 13, came when a neighbor brought him young colts to start.  

At the age of 16, Jim left the family farm to hitch hike to the mountains which were calling him.  Norman Luxton & Red Cathcart picked him up and he found work at  Martin’s  summer riding stables.  In the fall, he went to DeWinton to work for two thrashing crews, after which he drove truck without a driver’s license (he was too young for one), working on the twinning of highway #2 from Calgary to High River.  In the Spring,  he went back to work at Martin’s Stables and in the Fall/Winter he worked at the Douglas Lake Cattle Company, B.C.  The following year, he worked for Claude Brewster who was the horse outfitter for the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies which he did for many years, and also worked starting colts with Bill Bagley at Brewster Guest Ranch at Seebe, and he carried on at their company ranch in the Ghost Forestry where the horses wintered. Jim thought of Bill as the greatest horseman that he had ever known, and was a privilege to be hi

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