Ross Alden

Piano teacher Ross Alden was born in 1920 on a ranch and raised in Nanton, Alberta.He began his piano studies late, at the age of thirteen.
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By now, Ross Alden had authored three books, his choirs were regularly winning competitions, and musically he felt he had nowhere left to go.

I thought, you're going to England.As a tiny, little boy, when one of my older cousins, had said I wasn't going to be worth anything when I grew up - he could drive four horses or six horses, I couldn't - and he was going to be a farmer like his uncle, like his father and I what was I going to be?
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Ross Alden left for England in 1955, came back to Canada for a year and then returned to England where he got his Bachelor of Music from the University of Durham.Apart from a year at Harvard, he studied and taught in England, including Oxford, for the next 13 years.
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Upon his return to Canada, Ross Alden became an instructor at Douglas College
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GATE offerd Ross Alden the opportunity to meet with like-minded men, something he had not managed during his previous stay in Vancouver
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Like many others of that period, Ross Alden knew of Roedy Green, Vancouver's pioneering gay activist.

Roedy Green

There was a young man, he was 24 in 1970, Roedy Green.He had an advertisement in the Georgia Straight.
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Ross Alden