Canada
Alberta
Atkins
Henry ATKINS, born 1867
Leeds, Yorkshire. He married twice and had 7 children.
He began homesteading in
1888 then in
1904 he established a hay, grain and implement business in
Didsbury , Alberta, he was Justice of the Peace for 4 years,
Mayor of Didsbury for 6 years and in 1915 was elected as a Liberal member of Parliament for the Alberta Legislature.
In 1919 he moved to Cremona, where he died in 1941.
Bell
Ralph Alexander Gascoigne BELL born 1861
Doncaster, Yorkshire. He went to Canada
and made his way to
Calgary in 1881 with
the North West Mounted Police and spent some time on railway patrol during construction of the
Canadian Pacific
Railway.
He died in Calgary in 1953.
Brown
Charles Robert BROWN born 1863
Otley, Yorkshire. he went to Calgary in 1883 and
became foreman of the Military Colonization Company ranch under General Strange. He later established his homesite at the 76 ranch, south of
Shepard. He ran over 2,400 cattle on 4,000 acres along the Bow River, and supplied many of
Calgary's first firehorses.
He and his wife had 4 children. He died in a motor vehicle accident in Calgary in 1828.
Pallister
Guy PALLISTER born
Sheffield 1873. He went to High River in 1888 and worked on several ranches until
1910. He then managed various ranches until 1947 when he retired. He died in 1958.
Prestwich
Percy PRESTWICH born 1864 Yorkshire went to
Alberta and settled at
Gleichen in 1884, he lived there until 1912. He married
English born Elizabeth Wagstaff, they had 6 children. He served with military from 1916 to 1918. He was Indian Agent at
Standoff, Alberta for the Blood Indian Reserve. He became a stock detective and brand inspector in 1920. He retired to
Calgary in 1923 and died there in 1944.
Wilson
Stephen WILSON, born 1854
Kimberworth,
Rotherham son of John & Emma, emigrated to
Canada. In 1885 he was hired to transport troops during the Rield Rebellion. He took up a homestead at Springbank then
moved to Red Deer where he operated the Alberta Hotel and the Windsor Hotel until 1914. He had married (1) in England in
1880 but his wife and 2 children had died before he moved to Calgary in 1885. In 1904, at Red Deer, he married (2) Sarah
Anderson, who was born in Ireland. They had 5 children.
Stephen died at
Red Deer in 1939.
