Pete Aldrich Memorial Fund

Pete Aldrich passed away in October 2000, shortly after his 50th birthday.
Pete was well known to landscapers and garden centres throughout Alberta and British Columbia as a supplier of deciduous caliper trees and conifers.
Pete started in this business almost 30 years ago as a supplier of balled and burlapped native birch trees.
He realized that nobody did this kind of business and with guts and gumption, built himself a niche.
As the business developed he also supplied hand-dug small spruce and pine.
Growing up in the Alder Flats area in Central Alberta, he knew of many small tree lots started by farmers that might be a good source for a supplier.
Pete’s business expanded rapidly and in the last ten to fifteen years included a whole array of caliper trees which he found all over British Columbia and Alberta.
Pete was totally self-taught. He learned by asking and experimenting.
In 1999, Pete and his wife, Frieda, bought an existing tree farm in Creston, British Columbia.
Pete was an extremely hard worker.
Pete has been a friend from almost the day he started until his untimely passing in 2000.
His hard work, dedication, and desire to learn are an example for all young people in this business.
He was a self-made man of the truest sense!