Alphonse Don Fremont
(September 3, 1917 – August 23, 2011)

It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Alphonse Don (Al) Fremont, devoted husband, loving father, grandfather and brother. With his family by his side Al passed away on August 23, 2011 at the Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert, SK at the age of 93.

Al is survived by his loving wife Helen Fremont (nee Fraser); his children: Linda (Gordon) Steil, Bev (Brian) Haydukewich, Corky (Gerald) Korolischuk, Butch (Linda) Fremont, Larry (Rhonda) Fremont; his nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.

Al is predeceased by his parents, Alphonse and Elise Fremont, three of his brothers, two of his sisters, and one infant son.

Al was born on September 3, 1917, at the Holy Family Hospital in Prince Albert, SK. He was the oldest of nine brothers and two sisters. He will be remembered as a hardworking and successful man. He was honest and proud, a person with humble beginnings who placed a great value on career and family.

Al grew up in the Prince Albert area where his family homesteaded. He attended the Red Wing School as a child. He left school at a young age to help his large family by hunting, trapping and working hard on the family farm. As a young man, Al became a towerman, and later a patrolman in the Prince Albert area which began his long career in wildlife conservation.

During the Second World War, Al enlisted with the Royal Canadian Engineers. He was trained in Dundurn, SK and then transferred to Chillawach, B.C. where he trained officers and was later transferred to England and then Holland where he spent two years. He received an honourable discharge, and returned to Canada in February 1946, and to his patrolman career.

Al attended the Saskatchewan Forestry School in Prince Albert and graduated in 1947. He first joined the Saskatchewan Smoke Jumpers and shortly after became a Conservation Field Officer posted in numerous positions throughout the province and ended his thirty-two year public service career as a Provincial Park Superintendant in Candle Lake where he retired in 1979.

After his ‘retirement’ Al stayed busy with various enterprises including instructing trapping schools and inventing a humane foot snare, as well as continuing to trap and hunt, and with family based businesses including bait minnows, bagged ice, wild rice harvesting and trapping snare sales. As with everything in Al’s life, his family was always included in every enterprise and took an active role in all of these.

Al loved nature, and began trapping and hunting at an early age using these skills to assist the family income. His love of the outdoors remained a passion throughout his long life and he hunted and trapped well into his eighties. In his later years he developed a passion for bowling and bowled almost daily right up to his death, including, as always, his family in his passions with a monthly ‘family bowling day’.

Al married Helen Fraser on December 2, 1947 and together they had six children. Sadly one of the children died in infancy. Al and Helen instilled the love of nature into all of their children and that passion for the outdoors remains along with a curiosity about life, a hunger for knowledge, a sense that anything is possible if you work hard and a strong positive model of what a father and husband should be. Those are all great gifts that the family member will pass down to the next generations.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, caring friends may instead choose to give a monetary gift to the family that will be donated to the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology Integrated Resource Management Scholarship Fund in order to continue Al’s legacy of teaching future generations about conservation.

The family wishes to thank the Level 5 & Emergency Care staff at the Victoria Hospital for their care and assistance.

A Funeral Service will be held Monday, August 29, 2011 at 1:00 pm, at MacKenzie Chapel, with Pastor Dennis Serfas officiating. Arrangements in care of Northern Funeral Service, MacKenzie Chapel. Brian and Bev Stobbs, Funeral Directors. 306.763.8488 www.northernfuneralservice.ca

• Date : 2011-08-23 06:00:00
• Location : Prince Albert, SK