A Pictorial History of

Alice Elston (Homewood)

1924 – 2007

Alice’s first year of life in Prince George BC 1924

Alice with her Mother 1925

Alice with her dog Rover 1925

Alice in 1926 with her mother, grandmother and great grandmother

Alice and Bill

1926

Alice and her brother Bill (2nd from right) with Prince George kids, mid 1930s

The Homewoods, 1930s

Homewoods, Nicholsons, & Munros, 1930s

West Lake Cabin (1937)

the site of many happy days for Alice and Bill

Alice age 13, 1937

Alice (far right at back) with brother Bill and two friends

Alice and Hazel Munro, 1940

Alice and Hazel again

Now they are upside down!

Alice in 1942, she loved dogs

Alice in the middle of two friends and Buster 1940s

Alice in the garden, 1940s

Alice at Alberta College 1943

Alberta College days, 1943

Alice the X-Country Skier, 1940s

Alice on right, with a friend

Alice in the middle late 40s/early 50s

Alice with young boy and, of course, a dog too

Alice, a bridesmaid at her brother Bill’s wedding

Alice’s brother Bill with daughter Ann in 1951 (whom Alice cared for 9 mths in 1950 while Ann’s Mom remained in hospital)

Alice in the early 1950s (in her father’s prized garden)

Alice in England, 1952

Alice with friend, Dorrie in London 1952

Alice teaching in Whitehorse, 1955

Alice a bride in 1956

Alice with Marjorie, 1956

Alice with daughters Marjorie and Katherine, 1958

Alice with her girls, 1959

Mick with Katherine, Eleanor and Marjorie 1960

Alice’s parents Alma and Percy Homewood, 1962

Alice and Mick’s 4 daughters, 1965

Alice in North Van, 1965

Alice in Victoria 1969

Alice and her girls in 1970

Alice and Mick’s girls, 1973

Barbara Lang and Alice, 1970s

Alice collecting Eleanor from a

hike 1974

Alice, 1978

Alice whale watching in 1979

Alice and her dog Mister, 1980

Alice and Mick

1980s

Alice 1980s

The Elstons in 1986

She loved those hats!

Alice with grandson, Neville, 1992

Alice with son in law, Chris Meyer, 1995

Alice in the 2000s

A hat of a different kind!

Three generations of Homewood women

August 2007, she lost her hat but found

another dog!

Glad I told you all I meant to

While I had the chance

‘Cause every moment I had with you

Made me who I am

-Dierks Bentley, 2005