After arriving in New York City in 1954 he only returned to the Rocky Mountain House area for visits.īruce showed musical abilities at a very early age at the familiy piano apparenly picking out melodies at the piano at age 3 or 4.īy age 12 he was giving piano lessons and later organized country & western bands. He also said we in New York City didn’t know the meaning of the word SNOW!īruce was very proud of his Canadian roots and of his parents. Small picture of the house where Bruce was born at bottom of album cover. There were no easily travelled roads into our out of the mining town and the main event was a train that came into the town once a week to pickup coal.One early recollection that Bruce shared is of a light that is always glowing in front of a mining supply store. Bruce’s father Clark Russell Haack (born in Montevideo, Minnesota)was an accountant for the Brazeau Collieries, and his mother whose maiden name was Bertha Ann Bell (from Novra, Mannitoba) was a schoolteacher.Īccording to Bruce his life as a young child was isolated and somewhat lonely.
The area is on the eastern slopes of the Canadian rockies just west of Rocky Mountain house where Bruce’s family later moved to. Bruce Clinton Haack was born in Nordegg or Saunders Creek in the Province of Alberta, Canada.
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