Al Oeming

Oeming was born on April 9, 1925, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to Albert and Elspeth Oeming, who had immigrated to Canada from Germany.{{cite web|url=http://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2014/04/16/remembering-al-oemings-days-as-a-wrestler-and-promoter/ |title=Remembering Al Oeming's days as a wrestler and promoter |author=Oliver, Greg |work=Slam! Wrestling|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer|date=April 3, 2016|access-date=2017-02-17}}

Oeming wrestled for the Capitol Wrestling Corporation in the 1940s on the urging of his boyhood neighbor Stu Hart whom he also served in the Royal Canadian Navy together with during World War II. He later co-founded the Stampede Wrestling promotion with Hart in 1948.{{cite web|url=http://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2014/04/16/remembering-al-oemings-days-as-a-wrestler-and-promoter/ |title=Remembering Al Oeming's days as a wrestler and promoter |author=Oliver, Greg |work=Slam! Wrestling|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer|date=April 3, 2016|access-date=2017-02-17}}

Oeming was the Edmonton Zoological Society's inaugural president.{{cite news |url=http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/05/14/al-oeming-88-ran-alberta-game-farm-for-40-years/ |title=Al Oeming, 88, ran Alberta Game Farm for 40 years|publisher=Animals24-7 |author=Clifton, Merritt |date=May 14, 2014 |access-date=2017-02-17}} He sought and rescued rare and endangered wild animals, particularly in northern and western Canada. Oeming toured the country attending schools with his tame cheetah Tawana to educate children about wildlife.{{Cite book |last = MacDonald |first =Hugh Robert | title = Funny Things Happened on My Way to the Cemetery | publisher = FriesenPress| year =2014 | page =185 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tsR-BQAAQBAJ&q=Al+Oeming+largest&pg=PA185| isbn =978-1460246412}}{{cite news |url=http://globalnews.ca/news/1222055/edmonton-conservationist-al-oeming-dies-at-age-88/ |title=Edmonton conservationist Al Oeming dies at age 88|publisher=GlobalNews.ca |author=staff|work=The Canadian Press |date= March 21, 2014 |access-date=2017-02-17}}{{cite news |url=http://www.fortsaskatchewanrecord.com/2014/04/03/regional-community-icon-dies-at-88 |title=Regional community icon dies at 88 |publisher=FortSaskatchewanRecord.com |author=Proulx, Ben |date=April 3, 2014 |access-date=2017-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217062841/http://www.fortsaskatchewanrecord.com/2014/04/03/regional-community-icon-dies-at-88 |archive-date=February 17, 2017 |url-status=dead }} In the 1980s Oeming starred in the television mini-series Al Oeming – Man of the North.

Oeming sometimes also loaned out some of his animals to the Disney company to use in their nature films.{{Cite book |last1=Rennick |first1=Penny |title=Alaska's Bears |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7296AAAAMAAJ&q=Al+Oeming |date= 1993|publisher=Alaska Geographic Society |page=109 |isbn=978-1566610148}}

Oeming was married twice, first to May Dorothy Dennistoun in 1950 and then to Gina Mrklas in 1978.{{cite web|url=http://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2014/04/16/remembering-al-oemings-days-as-a-wrestler-and-promoter/ |title=Remembering Al Oeming's days as a wrestler and promoter |author=Oliver, Greg |work=Slam! Wrestling|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer|date=April 3, 2016|access-date=2017-02-17}}

• Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame
• Class of 2014{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/hallofame.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180116101918/http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/hallofame.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 16, 2018 |title=Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame |date =April 3, 2016|work=Slam! Wrestling|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer}}

• A Visit to Al Oeming's Alberta Game Farm (Commercial Printers Limited, Edmonton, 1963).

• Notes on the barred owl and snowy owl in Alberta (Nature Saskatchewan BlueJay Journal, Vol. 15 No. 4 - December 1, 1957).{{Cite journal|last=Saskatchewan Natural History Society|date=1957-12-01|title=Notes on the Barred Owl and the Snowy Owl in Alberta|url=https://bluejayjournal.ca/index.php/bluejay/article/view/1721|journal=Blue Jay|volume=15|issue=4|doi=10.29173/bluejay1721|issn=2562-5667|doi-access=free}}
• Goshawk Trapping in Alberta (Nature Saskatchewan BlueJay Journal, Vol. 16 No. 1 - March 1958){{Cite journal|last=Oeming|first=A. F.|date=1958-03-01|title=Goshawk Trapping in Alberta|url=https://bluejayjournal.ca/index.php/bluejay/article/view/2706|journal=Blue Jay|volume=16|issue=1|doi=10.29173/bluejay2706|issn=2562-5667|doi-access=free}}
• A Herd Of Musk-Oxen, Ovibos moschatus, in captivity (International Zoo Yearbook, Vol. 5 Issue 1 - January 1965).{{Cite journal|last=Oeming|first=Al|date=1965|title=A HERD OF MUSK-OXEN, Ovibos moschatus, IN CAPTIVITY|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-1090.1965.tb01575.x|journal=International Zoo Yearbook|language=en|volume=5|issue=1|pages=58–65|doi=10.1111/j.1748-1090.1965.tb01575.x|issn=1748-1090|url-access=subscription}}
• A Further Note On The Herd Of Musk-Oxen Ovibos moschatus at Alberta Game Farm (International Zoo Yearbook, Vol. 6 Issue 1 - January 1966){{Cite journal|last=Oeming|first=Al|date=1966|title=A FURTHER NOTE ON THE HERD OF MUSK-OXEN Ovibos moschatus AT ALBERTA GAME FARM|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-1090.1966.tb01758.x|journal=International Zoo Yearbook|language=en|volume=6|issue=1|pages=205–206|doi=10.1111/j.1748-1090.1966.tb01758.x|issn=1748-1090|url-access=subscription}}
• Notes On The Care and Nutrition of North American Sheep in Captivity (International Zoo Yearbook, Vol. 6 Issue 1 - January 1966).{{Cite journal|last=Oeming|first=Al|date=1966|title=Notes on the Care and Nutrition of North American Sheep in Captivity|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-1090.1966.tb01704.x|journal=International Zoo Yearbook|language=en|volume=6|issue=1|pages=93–95|doi=10.1111/j.1748-1090.1966.tb01704.x|issn=1748-1090|url-access=subscription}}

• Animals in professional wrestling

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• {{cite web | url =http://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2014/04/16/the-wrestlers-al-oeming-knew/ | title =The wrestlers Al Oeming knew | author =Oliver, Greg | author-link =Greg Oliver | work = SLAM! Wrestling | publisher =Canoe.ca | access-date=2017-02-17 | date = April 3, 2016}}

• Al Oeming's profiles at, [http://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=18117 Cagematch.net] and [http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=20934&bild=1&details=7&schema=3 Wrestlingdata.com]
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• [http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/edmontonjournal/obituary.aspx?pid=170415407 Obituary] at Legacy.com

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