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Born in Amber Valley, a small farming community, David Brown remembers having to walk three and a half miles to the local school. During the winter, he and other schoolchildren travelled to school by horse and sleigh. He later attended high school in Athabasca and, like many young men at that time, stayed in the boys' hostel there.


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