Alberta Ambulance Services Roster

The following is a list of pre-1990 ambulance services in the Province of Alberta.

The Alberta Ambulance Operators Association was formed in 1969.

A 1972 survey by Alberta Emergency Health Services indicated there were 64 locations in the province that had an ambulance service.

A 1979 Alberta Municipal Affairs map shows there were 33 municipally operated ambulance services, 33 hospital based and 32 privately operated services.

Alberta Health Services assumed control of all ambulance services in the province in 2009.

• Airdrie
• Had a 1979 GM van ambulance
• Alberta Beach
• 1973 - Don Schueler began Alberta Beach Ambulance Service
  1974 - Heather Wilson purchased Alberta Beach
  1980 - Alberta Beach name changed to Alpha Ambulance
• Athabasca
• 1947 to 1958 - W. A. Blacklock's Athabasca Funeral Home
  1958 to 1967 - Hugo Coli & Gordon Lewis operated the funeral home & ambulance
  1967 to 1973 - Jack Sturges operated the ambulance service
  1973 - Municipal ambulance service began, stationed at the hospital
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Atikameg
• Had a 1988 Ford ambulance
• Banff
• 1972 - Banff Ambulance Service Ltd.
  1978 - Ron Heffner was operating the service
  1982 - Associated Ambulance expanded to Banff
  1998 - Banff Emergency Medical Services
• Barrhead
• 1955 - McFarquhar Funeral Home
  1950s to 1961 - Barrhead Funeral Home, Clarence Goheen
  1961 to 1967 - Barrhead Funeral Home, Ron Johnson
  1967 to 1980 - Benesch Funeral Home, Fred Benesch
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Bashaw
• 1963 to 1979 - Bashaw Funeral Home
  1972 - Bashaw General Hospital was operating an ambulance service
  1985 - Alert Ambulance
• Bassano
• 1972 - Smith's Funeral Home
  1989 - Bassano Ambulance Service
• Beaverlodge
• 1972 - Frank Anderson provided service
• Bentley
• 1984 - Parkland Ambulance Authority
• Blairmore
• 1955 - Miner's Ambulance Service
  1972 - Crows Nest Pass Municipal Hospital
• Bon Accord
• 1979 - Municipal service
• Bonnyville
• 1960 to 1961 - Fontaine Funeral Home
  1974 - Bonnyville Municipal Ambulance formed
• Bow Island
• 1967 - Volunteer Fire Dept
• Boyle
• 2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Breton
• 2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Brocket
• 1998 - Peigan Ambulance
• Brooks
• 1955 - Smith's Funeral Home
  1950s - Municipal service began
• Calgary
• 1903 - Alpha M. Shaver Funeral Home & Ambulance began
  1911 - Graham & Buscombe Undertakers began ambulance service
  1911 - Foster Funeral Home began service
  1913 - Graham & Thompson Funeral Home
  1913 - Shaver, Armstrong, McPherson Funeral Home
  1930 - Leyden & Bruce Funeral Home
  1931 - Calgary Alderman Ernie Starr purchased Bell's Ambulance Service and renamed it Starr's
  1933 to 1937 - Starr's operated Alberta's first air ambulance
  1936 - Ed's Ambulance operated from service station
  1936 - Ted's Ambulance operated from service station on opposite street corner from Ed's Ambulance. Ed's and Ted's were later both purchased by Starr's
  1936 to 1943 - Roy Walton operated Roy's Ambulance
  1946 - Jay's Ambulance was owned by J. F. Miller and F. J. Moore
  1950 - Royal Ambulance Service
  1954 - Starr's Ambulance also operated as Calgary Ambulance Services Ltd.
  1956 - Bryan Hart, Rose Scotland and at various times Otto Kutsch, Dave Coulter, Len Jeffrey owned Starr's Ambulance
  1958 - Don Shelley began Stampede Ambulance
  1959 - Bill Hill operated Hill's Ambulance from his nursing home
  1960 - John Bean began Associated Ambulance
  1961 - Associated bought Stampede
  1962- Ian Carlyle's Bow-Mont Ambulance served the towns of Bowness and Montgomery (later they amalgamated with City of Calgary)
  1966 - Starr's amalgamated with Associated to form Calgary Associated, but continued using Starr's and Associated names and colours
  1966 - Hill's Ambulance quit when Starr's and Associated amalgamated
  1966 - Universal Ambulance began by Stu Paterson, Jack Cameron and Al Anthony
  1967 - Aaron Ambulance began by Dr. Peter Cohen and Richard Sigurdson
  1968 - Calgary Associated folded
  1971 - City of Calgary took over Universal and Aaron and began City of Calgary Ambulance Service
  1986 - Calgary Hospital Patient Transport System began
  1998 - Park Ambulance Service
• Camrose
• 1906 to 1971 - Burgar Funeral Home
  1955 - Hoveland Ambulance
  1971 - City and County took over ambulance duties
  1979 - Ambulance was hospital operated
• Canmore
• Bow Valley Ambulance had a 1977 modular ambulance
  1979 - Hospital service
• Cardston
• 1934 - Bill Komm provided service
  1972 - B & R Services
  1979 - Cardston Hospital
• Caroline
• Caroline Volunteer Ambulance had a 1976 GM van ambulance
• Castor
• 1953 to 1975 - Lissack Funeral Home
  1955 - A. H. Matthias
  1975 to 1985 - Eric Scharpe's Ambulance Service
• Cereal
• 1955 - J. A. Waterhouse
  1972 - Klym's Ambulance Service
• Claresholm
• 1955 - Leyden Funeral Home
  Bob Gordon's Ambulance Service
  William Trimble Ambulance
  1972 - Claresholme District Ambulance
  1981 - Tri-Med Ambulance Service
  1998 - Chinook Emergency Services Ltd.
• Coaldale
• 1959 - Town purchased first ambulance, operated by volunteer fire dept.
• Cochrane
• Cochrane Fire Dept. had 1972 Dodge van ambulance
  1985 - Aaron Paramedical
• Cold Lake
• Cold Lake Hospital District had a 1979 Ford van ambulance
• Consort
• 1975 to 1985 - Eric Scharpe's Ambulance Service
• Coronation
• Up to 1956 - Donald's Funeral Home
  1956 to 1975 - Lissack Funeral Home
  1975 to 1985 - Eric Scharpe's Ambulance Service
• Crowsnest Pass
• 1959 - Fantin Funeral Chapel
  1979 - Hospital run service
• Darwell
• 1979 - Private ambulance service
• Daysland
• 1972 - Town of Daysland
  1975 - Ambulance operated by County of Flagstaff
• Desmarais
• 1983 - Mistassiniy Ambulance
• Devon
• 1951 to 1954 - Imperial Oil had a 1951 Pontiac ambulance
  1954 - Town of Devon took over the service
• Didsbury
• 1920s - Walter Duerrer Funeral Home
  1979 - Ken Sherrick operated Mountain View Ambulance
• Drayton Valley
• 1972 - N. Urchyshyn
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Drumheller
• 1935 - Winter's Funeral Home
  1970s - Drumheller Ambulance Society operated from the hospital
• Eckville
• 1975 - Jim Keegstra operated the ambulance from his service station
• Edmonton
• 1881 to 1899 - Dr. Whitelaw (later McIntosh & Whitelaw) Undertaking
  1881 to 1899? - F. W. Carscadden Undertaking
  1881 to 1929 - Wainwright (later with Jackson) Undertaking
  1881 - William Lockhart Undertaking
  1904 - Appleby & Armstrong Undertaking
  1905 - Lubbock & Moffatt Undertaking & Ambulance
  1905 to 1925 - City of Edmonton Isolation Hospital had an ambulance
  1907 - Alberta Undertaking
  1908 to 1912 - Edmonton Fire Brigade operated an ambulance donated by the I.O.D.E.
  1908 to 1933- Connelly & McKinley Funeral Home. In 1913 they ran Edmonton's first motorized ambulance
  1908 to 1932 - Andrews Brothers Funeral Home
  1910 - Strathcona Undertakers (also Taylor's, also Connelly)
  1910 to 1919 - Taylor's Undertaking (also South Side) owned by Connelly
  1910 to 1921 - McCoppen & Lambert Funeral Home
  1912 to 1933 - Howard & McBride Funeral Home
  1913? - Bowker & Millard Funeral Home
  1923 to 1938 - Foster & McGarvey Funeral Home
  1929 to 1933 - Hainstock & Sons Funeral Home
  1930 to 1955 - Jack Hays
  1933 - Jock McNeill of McNeil's Taxi, Storage & Moving Company bought all but one of the ambulance services in Edmonton
  1936 - Sherman Maxwell Smith bought MacNeil's Ambulance and renamed it Smith's Ambulance
  1946 to 1948 - Paul's Ambulance Service
  1946 to 1951 - The City of Edmonton's ambulance was operated by the fire dept.
  1950 to 1955 - South side Ambulance, Allan Buchanan
  1951 to 1952 - The City of Edmonton's ambulance was operated by the Royal Alexandra Hospital
  1952 - Anderson's International Pipeline had two 1952 panel van ambulances
  1957 to 1960 - Edmonton Ambulance Service (also AA Ambulance, also Leuwer Ambulance)
  1960 to 1971 - Ed Kalynchuk bought Edmonton Ambulance and renamed it Alberta Ambulance
  1962 - Ed Kalynchuk bought Smith's Ambulance, then combined the names of his two companies to Smith's Alberta Ambulance Service
  1965 - Hill's Ambulance lasted less than a year
  1965 - Central Ambulance lasted less than a year
  1970 to 1972 - South Side Ambulance, Kelly Orsted
  1981 to 1992 - Edmonton Ambulance Authority took over Smith's Ambulance
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Edson
• 1952 to 1979 - Edson Funeral Home, Liberty Joy
  1979 to mid 1980s - Yellowhead Ambulance Service, Sandy Joy
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Elk Point
• Lakeland Ambulance had a 1978 GM
• Entwhistle
• 1981 - Lifestar Ambulance Service
• Evansburg
• 2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Fairview
• 1979 - Hospital service
• Foremost
• 1979 - Municipal run service
• Fort Macleod
• 1860s - Macleod Municipal Hospital had a horse-drawn ambulance
  1975 - Volunteer fire dept. began service
• Fort McMurray
• 1972 - Andre Lord
  1979 - Fort McMurray Fire Dept. provided ambulance service
  1981 - Syncrude Canada Ambulance
  1983 - Suncor Ambulance
• Fort Saskatchewan
• 1972 - Sherritt Gordon
  1987 - Superior Ambulance Service
• Fox Creek
• 1971 - Volunteer ambulance service began
  1985 - Jespersen Ambulance Service
• Galahad
• 1972 - Holben's
  1975 - Ambulance operated by County of Flagstaff
• Gleichen
• 1979 - Operated by Jaques Funeral Home
  1988 - Gleichen Blackfoot Ambulance Service
• Glendon
• 1998 - Glendon Ambulance Service
• Grand Cache
• 1972 - McIntyre Porcupine Mines had an ambulance
  1979 - Grande Cache Fire Dept. had an ambulance
• Grande Prairie
• 1913 to 1973 - Oliver Funeral Chapel
  1947 - Harold Peebles had a license to operate a Snow Plane Taxi & Ambulance
  1973 - Queen Elizabeth II Hospital took over ambulance service
  1998 - Central Peace Ambulance
• Grimshaw
• 1979 - Hospital run service
• Hanna
• 1940s - Montgomery Mine south of Hanna had a 1941 Ford ambulance
  1955 - Robert Whyte
  1972 - Winter's Funeral Home
  1979 - Hospital run service
• Hardisty
• 1975 - Ambulance operated by County of Flagstaff
• High Level
• 1979 - Hospital run service
  1986 - Aeromedical Emergency Services began
• High Prairie
• 1955 - Griep & Humphries
  1961 - Chapel of Memories Funeral Home
  1979 - Hospital run service
• High River
• 1929 to 1974 - Snodgrass Funeral Home
  1979 - High River District Ambulance Service operated by hospital
• Hinton
• 1972 - Northwest Pulp & Power Co.
  1983 - Associated Ambulance took over ambulance in Hinton
• Hobbema
• 1985 - Muskwachees Ambulance Authority
• Holden
• 1979 - Municipal ambulance service
• Innisfail
• 1923 to 1972 - Duffield's Funeral Home
  1979 - Guardian Ambulance, Earl Hoffas
• Jasper
• 1966 - Jasper Volunteer Fire Dept.
  Allied Ambulance had a 1978 GM
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Killam
• 1935 to 1975 - Fee & Sons Funeral Home
  1975 - County of Flagstaff took over ambulance service
• La Crete
• 1998 - La Crete Ambulance
• La Glace
• 1998 - Northern Star Ambulance
• Lac La Biche
• 1972 - Municipal service operating from hospital
  1978 - Don Schueler began Lakeland Ambulance Service
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Lacombe
• 1951 to 1959 - Brown & Johnson Funeral Home
  1972 - Fenton & Kirkman Funeral Home
  1976 to 1981 - Alert Ambulance Services, Oberhammer Funeral Home
  1979 - Ron Heffner had a private ambulance service
  1979 - Lacombe Municipal Ambulance
• Lamont
• 1972 - Park Memorial
  1975 - Archer Memorial Hospital Ambulance
  1979 - Al Carter's Ambulance Service
• Leduc
• 1972 - Jack and Margaret Thornton began County Ambulance
  1977 - Bruce Osborne bought County and renamed it Tri-County Ambulance
  1998 - Crown EMS
• Legal
• 1979- Had a private ambulance service
• Lethbridge
• 1912 - Galt hospital had an ambulance
  1912 - Lethbridge Fire Dept. took over
  1937 - Flock's Funeral Home, J. W. Murphy
  1953 - Christensen Brothers Funeral Homes
  1956 - Marcoux - Morris Funeral Home
• Linden
• 1971 - Kneehill Ambulance Society
• Lloydminster
• (See Saskatchewan Roster)
• Ma Me O Beach
• 2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Magrath
• 1979 - Hospital ambulance service
• Manning
• 1979 - Hospital ambulance service
• Mannville
• 1955 - Mannville Motors operated the ambulance
• Mayerthorpe
• 1979 - Municipal ambulance service
  1979 to 2013 - Associated Ambulance Service
• McLennan
• 1979 - Sacred Heart Hospital Ambulance Service
  1998 - Smoky River Ambulance
• Medicine Hat
• 1924 - Medicine Hat Livery
  1925 - Knott's Funeral Home
  1927 - Pattison's Funeral Home
  1929 - Foster's Funeral Home
  1940 - Cook's Funeral Home
  1957 - Mac's Ambulance, Hector MacGregor
  1979 - Hospital ambulance service
• Mildred Lake
• 1975 - Canadian Bechtel Corporation had an ambulance
• Milk River
• 1965 - Border Counties Hospital ambulance operated by volunteer fire dept.
• Morinville
• 1950s - Fire Dept. ambulance
  1979 - Morinville & District Ambulance Service
• Nanton
• Local funeral home had an ambulance
  1962 - Volunteer Fire Dept. took over ambulance duties
• Nordegg
• 1998 - Nordegg Ambulance
• Okotoks
• 1989 - Okotoks EMS
• Olds
• 1921 - Walter Gooder's funeral home
  1946 - Herb Fisher's ambulance service
  1946 - Orme's Funeral Service
  1964 to 1967 - Mountain View Funeral Chapels
  1979 - Lawrence and Irene Doherty operated Mountain View Ambulance
  1998 - Guardian Emergency Services
• Onoway
• 1974 - Bob Landry begins ambulance service
• Oyen
• 1959 to 1985 - Tony Klym operates an ambulance from his farm
  1988 - Dryland Municipal Ambulance Service
• Peace River
• 1947 to 1967 - Griep & Humphries Funeral Home
  1967 to 1973 - Chapel of Memories
  1973 - Hospital took over ambulance service
• Peerless Lake
• 1998 - Cree Ambulance
• Pigeon Lake
• 1983 - Pigeon Lake Ambulance began
• Pincher Creek
• 1972 - Municipal District of Pincher Creek
  1975 - St. Vincent's Hospital
  1989 - Pincher Creek Fire Dept.
• Ponoka
• 1955 - Bowker & Bascom Funeral Home
  1979 - Hospital ambulance service
  1983 - Alert Ambulance began in Ponoka
  1990 - Guardian Ambulance
• Provost
• 1953 to 1974 - Gregory Funeral Home (also served Macklin, Denzil and Primate in Saskatchewan)
  1974 - Provost Municipal Hospital took over
• Radway
• 1998 - Blue Star EMS
• Rainbow Lake
• 1979 - Municipal ambulance service
• Raymond
• 1998 - Raymond & District Ambulance
• Red Deer
• 1921 - Jacques - Orme Funeral Home began the first ambulance service
  1958 - Brown & Johnson Funeral Home
  1961 - Brown & Johnson became Eventide Funeral Home & Ambulance
  1963 - City of Red Deer Fire Dept. took over the ambulance service
• Red Earth
• Lakeland Ambulance had a 1978 GM
• Redwater
• 1998 - Omnicare Ambulance
• Rimbey
• 1972 - Duffield's Funeral Home
  1979 - Hospital run ambulance
  1986 to 1994 - Associated Ambulance
• Rocky Mountain House
• 1923 to 1972 - Duffield's Funeral Home
  1985 - Rocky Ambulance Service, Bill Coghill
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Saddle Lake
• 1982 - Saddle Lake Tribal Administration Ambulance
• Sherwood Park
• Petro Canada had a 1971 Ford ambulance
  1979 - Strathcona County Fire Dept.
• Slave Lake
• 1979 - Private ambulance service
• Smith
• 1979 - Noralta Taxi & Ambulance
• Smoky Lake
• 1972 - George Predy
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Spirit River
• 1979 - Hospital service
• Spruce Grove
• 1973 - Don Schueler began Spruce Grove branch of Alberta Beach Ambulance
  1980 - Alberta Beach Ambulance changed name to Alpha Ambulance
• St. Albert
• 1979 - St. Albert Fire Dept.
• St. Paul
• 1951 to 1968 - Park Dale Funeral Home
  1972 - Municipal ambulance
  1979 - Hospital run service
• Standard
• 1969 - Village of Standard bought an ambulance
• Standoff
• 1982 - Blood Tribe Protective Services Ambulance
• Stettler
• 1927 to 1972 - Brennen Funeral Home
  1972 - Hospital took over ambulance service
• Stony Plain
• 1985 - Parkland Ambulance Authority
• Strathcona
• 1908 - Wainwright the Undertaker
  1972 - Strathcona County began ambulance service
• Strathmore
• 1979 - Municipal service
  1982 - Associated Ambulance expanded to Strathmore
• Sundre
• Had a 1980 GM ambulance
• Swan Hills
• 1979 - Municipal service
• Sylvan Lake
• 1923 to 1972 - Duffield's Funeral Home
  1998 - Knutson's Ambulance
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Taber
• 1912 - A group of coal miners started an ambulance service
  Funeral homes provided ambulance service, first Samuel Layton, then Thomas Carr, then George Humphries
  1958 - Volunteer Fire Dept. took over ambulance duties
• Thorhild
• 2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Three Hills
• 1955 - Patton's Ambulance
  1972 - Linden Fire Dept.
  1998 - Three Hills Ambulance
• Tofield
• 1955 - Tofield Municipal Hospital
  1980 - Beaver Ambulance Service began for Tofield, Viking and Beaver County
• Trochu
• 1955 - J. H. Hall
  1972 - Municipal ambulance
• Turner Valley
• 1972 - Turner Valley Ambulance Service
  1986- Oilfields Ambulance Service
• Two Hills
• 1979 - Lakeland Ambulance expanded to Two Hills
• Valleyview
• 1972 - James Ambulance Service
  1979 - Dalron Enterprises
  up to 1980 - Bud Brown operated Bud's Ambulance
  1998 - Alberta North Star Ambulance
• Vauxhall
• 1969 - Vauxhall & District Volunteer Ambulance Service
• Vegreville
• 1955 - Park Memorial
  196? - Francis & Jean Schulte
  1972 - Brian Henderson
  1978 - Al Carter's Vegreville Ambulance Service
• Vermilion
• 1955 - Moyer's Funeral Home
  1979 - Private ambulance service
  1986 - Vermilion Valley Ambulance, Karen & Rod Westman
• Viking
• 1920s - Ronaghan Funeral Home
  1972 - Municipal ambulance
  1980 - Beaver Ambulance Service
• Vilna
• 1998 - Mystique Ambulance
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Vulcan
• 1960 - Municipal volunteers staffed Vulcan Ambulance
• Wabamun
• Whitewood Coal had a 1974 Ford ambulance
  1984 - Parkland Ambulance Authority
• Wabasca
• Lakeland Ambulance had a 1974 Dodge
  1985 - W. D. Ambulance
• Wainwright
• 1930 to 1967 - McLeod Funeral Home
  1967 - Wainwright General Hospital took over the ambulance
• Waterton Park
• 1998 - Waterton Park Ambulance
• Westlock
• 1928 to 1987 - Westlock Funeral Home
  Louis Tinant's Pembina Ambulance Service had a 1974 Suburban
  2013 - Associated Ambulance
• Wetaskiwin
• 1933 to 1951 - Campbell Funeral Home, Jack Campbell
  1951 to 1971 - Baker Funeral Home, Earl Baker
  1971 - Hospital began ambulance service
• Whitecourt
• 1955 - H. Wedow
  1975 - Don Schueler began his ambulance service
  1981 - Associated Ambulance expanded from Mayerthorpe
• Wildwood
• 1979 - Richard's Ambulance, Richard Michalichuk