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- From the Archives Canada website:
Dan Norrelund Jensen was born January 12, 1914 in Redcliff, Alberta to Danish immigrants Hans Egede Jensen and Sanne Thomasdatter N?rrelund. His parents homesteaded in the British Block northeast of Redcliff until 1920 when they moved into town and Dan started school. In 1925 the family returned to Denmark to start a vegetable farm, but returned to Redcliff in 1928 after the farm failed. Dan graduated from school in 1932 and after working for Dominion Glass Factory went back to school to become a teacher. Because of poor pay during the depression, Dan went back to the glass factory as a draftsman. Sanne died tragically by drowning in 1936.
Dan worked his way up in the factory and in 1945 hired Marion Joyce Newman as a draftsperson. They married December 1946, and had 4 children: Gail Eleanor [Carney] (1947), Michael (1949), Leona Margaret [Blake] (1950), and Craig Howard (1951). By then, Dan was assistant superintendant at the factory and a mason. In 1959 Dan went back to university to study engineering and in 1965 went to the University of Alberta to become a vocational teacher. In the summer of 1967 he got a job at Vegreville and moved his family to Edmonton. Tragedy struck in 1969, however, when Marion was stricken with cancer and died. Soon after, Dan began teaching at St. Joseph's High School in Edmonton. In 1978 he married Edna Mae Letch, and retired in 1979. During retirement, Dan recieved a B.A in Scandinavian languages among other things. Edna Mae died in the spring of 1985 and Dan passed away February 22, 2004.
Marion Newman was born on August 29, 1916 in High River, Alberta. She received her education in Gladys Ridge, Blackie and High River. From 1935 to 1936 she attended Calgary Normal School and received a First Class Teaching Certificate. After two years of teaching, Marion went to the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, Calgary, and under the direction of Henry G. Glyde received a certificate in Fine Arts. In December of 1941 she joined the Dominion Glass Company Limited in Redcliff in the engineering office as designer of glass containers and related moulding equipment. On December 31, 1946 she married Dan Norrelund Jensen. Marion pursued her painting hobby and became involved in pottery, and was an active and influential member of the Hat Art Club. She was an active instructor in drawing in 1962-63 and she assisted Donna MacLean in teaching classes. Mrs. Jensen died of cancer May 9, 1969 in Edmonton.
Dan and Marion's daughter Gail Eleanor Carney is also an artist; she was employed for many years with the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, and in 2009 came back to Medicine Hat with the Artist-in-Residence program at Medalta. She has been on faculty with the Neufeld Institute since 2007.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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1882 - 1936 (53 år)
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