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Note: A note dated April 22, 2001, by Samuel William Aylesworth, son of Agnes Alice Nickle and Robert Wesley Aylesworth. Agnes was a daughter of Samuel Clarence Nickle and sister to Carl Olaf Nickle.
I have in my possession numerous letter from and about George Nickle, his wife Martha (called "Mattie"] and from and about their son Samuel Clarence Nickle, his wife Olga Nickle (nee Simonson), and their family members. I received these letters from Rosemary Nickle, the widow of Samuel Clarence Nickle (Jr), a son of Samuel Clarence Nickle (Sr) and a brother of my mother Agnes. I will read through these letters during the months ahead, and record critical information in this family tree.
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A letter written in 1924 indicates that Carl and his brother Sammy are away from home at a Scout Camp.
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The first extended reference to Carl that I have is a letter written in September 1928 from Carl to his father, Sam Nickle. Carl was 14 at the time. His father Sam was in Toronto, trying to establish a new line of business manufacturing and selling Display Shelving, his mother Olga Nickle is away as her father is very ill, and the Slipper Shop is doing very poorly. The letter from Carl reads as follows:
Dear Dad,
Please excuse me for not writing sooner. I am very sorry for same and hope that the defect may be remedied by this letter. You will be surprised to find this letter typewritten. I will explain ... starting next year I ashall be going to Commercial High and in preperation I am becoming adept on the use on the Typewriter.
I have better news for you however, I passed with Honers in the Graduation Exams and am now taking the complete eight Normal subjects in Grade Nine before going to Commercial.
I had six day job at the polo ground and earned Five dollers for the week. I spent four dollers on School books and one doller on a pair of running shoes for the school and Scout Sports.
This has been a very poor month at the store and Pop is having a hard struggle to make it pay since he has to pay out fifty dollers weekly to us. Dad, if it is at all possible, please try and relieve Pop of some of his financial worries.
Sam and I have been bunking it alone and it certainly isnt much fun and we sure miss everybody and feel very lonely. We get up in the morning, get dressed, eat a lonely meal, go to school, come home, eat another lonely meal, go to school, come home fool around, eat,, do our homeowrk, and go to ged. It sure is not any fund and we certainly miss everybody. Gee, I will be glad when we all get together again and we all sit around the same table again.
Before I close,Dad, I want to say that I hope that your business will soon be able to go on without you and that you and Mother may join us again around the same fire and that once more the family will be united in Peace.
Hoping that your Invention will be a success
I remain lovingly
Your son
Carl
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A letter dated October 21, 1930 from Carl Simonson of Winnipeg, brother of Olga Nickle (nee Simonson] indicates that Carl Olaf Nickle is "going to school and making good progress. Personally I do hope you achieve every ambition you may have in your heart and "Don't failt ot hitch your wagon to the highest star.
Please sit down and write me a line, giving me some of philosophies for I understannd Carl that your thinking is largely along a philosophical vein.
With love and best wishes to you all. Yours sincerely, Uncle Carl."
Carl would be 16 when the letter was written by his uncle Carl.
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The following note about Carl Nickle was copied from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"Lieutenant Carl Olof Nickle (July 12, 1914 - December 5, 1990) was an editor and publisher, oil baron, soldier in the Canadian Army and served as a Canadian federal politician from 1951 to 1957.
Nickle served a long career in the Canadian Forces. He joined in 1939 and served in the Army achieving the rank of Lieutenant. Nickle left the Army in 1948.
Nickle first ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in a by-election held in the electoral district of Calgary West on December 10, 1951. Nickle won the by-election and his first term in office by a comfortable margin. Calgary's electoral boundaries would be redistributed at the drop of the writ for the 1953 federal election. He would run in the new electoral district of Calgary South and be re-elected defeating 4 other candidates. He retired from federal politics at the end of his second term in 1957.
External links
Carl Olof Nickle Federal Political Experience
Carl Olof Nickle's published works
Parliament of Canada
Preceded by
Arthur LeRoy Smith
Member of Parliament Calgary West
1951-1953
Succeeded by
Jim Hawkes
Preceded by
New District
Member of Parliament Calgary South
1953-1957
Succeeded by
Arthur Ryan Smith"
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The following summary comments were copied from http://library.ucalgary.ca/nickle/founders as accessed on September 28, 2013:
Carl O. Nickle
1914 - 1990
Carl O. Nickle was born in Winnipeg in 1914, and came to Calgary with his parents, Sam and Olga Nickle as boy. The family was far from wealthy. In 1937, with sixty-five dollars in capital, Carl launched a newsletter, Nickle´s Daily Oil Bulletin. In 1948 Carl began a second publication, Oil in Canada. Carl was elected to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative member in a 1951 by-election, and was re-elected in 1953, retiring in 1957. He formed his own oil and gas company, Conventures, and served on the boards of directors of many companies in Canada and the U.S. Carl´s first love was numismatics and he created a major collection of ancient coins. In 1970 he donated the main part of the collection to The Nickle Arts Museum. In 1955 he established The Nickle Foundation, and in 1971, merged that foundation with one his Father, Sam, had founded to create The Nickle Family Foundation. In 1979, Carl Nickle - like his father before him - was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Calgary, in recognition of his great contributions to the Calgary and University communities. Dr. Carl Nickle died in December 1990.
[This summary statement was added to this family tree/database on September 28, 2013 by Samuel Wm. Aylesworth, a nephew of Carl O. Nickle.]
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