Alberta, Past and Present, Historical and Biographical By John Blue, B.A. (1924)
Foreword
The design of this work
is to give a readable and comprehensive view of the history of Alberta
from the earliest times. The author has divided the history of the
province into three periods. The first period will cover the early
explorations and rule of the Fur Traders. The second period concerns
rival fur companies, the Selkirk Purchase, etc.-1811-1821. The third
period, which in many ways is the most wonderful of all, deals with the
events since 1821—tells the story of the marvelous transformation of the
Great Lone Land into the rich and populous Alberta of today.
The story is one of
intense and instructive interest to the student of Canadian history. To
trace the development of the political institutions of the newest
province of the Dominion and compare it with the development of similar
institutions in the older provinces of Canada, is an interesting study
in comparative politics and highly illustrative of the manner in which
responsible government grows in free communities.
The wonderful material
development of the province since it was opened for settlement is a
story of enthralling interest. Less than fifty years ago the Blackfeet
and the Crees roamed the plains and camped on the sites of the principal
cities of the province. They hunted the buffalo and the antelope over
the unploughed acres that now comprise the farms and homesteads of half
a million people. Elk and deer by thousands found shelter in the
foot-hills and mountain passes where now scores of mining towns and
villages prosper and flourish. Less than fifty years ago there was not a
mile of railway between the Red River and the Rocky Mountains. Today
there are over six thousand miles of railway in the province of Alberta
alone, connected with all the great transcontinental systems of Canada
and the United States. Men traveled by dog sleighs, canoes or Red River
carts. The only civilized persons who had penetrated the Great Lone Land
were the Hudson's Bay traders, the hunters and trappers, the
missionaries and the prospectors on their way to the gold diggings of
Yale and Caribou.
Today there are nearly
three-quarters of a million of a population within the area that now
comprises the province. Many of the old Indian trails have been surveyed
and have become permanent highways. The people have schools and
churches; colleges and universities; municipal institutions; thousands
of miles of telephone communication; banks and great commercial and
trading houses. The province, through its vast resources and the energy
of its people—drawn from the great races of the world—is rapidly
becoming a powerful factor in the commercial and political life of the
Dominion of Canada.
The story of this
wonderful transformation is worthy of record. An earnest attempt has
been made by the author and the publishers to present the great mass of
facts with a sense of their due proportion and ultimate value as the
true material of history. The author has had the advantage of a long
residence in Western Canada, and has had the resources of the Provincial
Library at Edmonton, the library of the University of Alberta at his
disposal, as well as the excellent collection of Canadiana in the
possession of Hon. Dr. A. C. Rutherford, the first Premier of Alberta.
Many valuable suggestions have been received from the Officers of the
Alberta Historical Society, and from many of the old-timers to whom the
rapid development of the last few years is more make a dream than the
natural events of history.
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communication with Cindy Ady, Minister for Tourism, Parks and
Recreation, Ms. Noelle Aune, Executive Director of Media, Public
Relations & e-Marketing and Chris Lamb, Director of e-Marketing.
Chris Lamb told me that it was considered and was to have gone ahead but
due to a last minute cut in the advertising budget they had to pull out
at the last minute. We are obviously sorry about this as it would have
been the first of its kind advertising as the Media company, Rare
Method, told me they had some 88 articles ready to go and their Andrew
Forrin was quite excited about the prospects.]
[Electric Scotland
Note: We've made available the biographies of any
Scots in these 2 biographical volumes but we've made the whole list
available in the event anyone wants to know if a relation is included.
Note also that is was not possible to identify all Scots from the
biographies due to lack of information so it's possible we missed a few.
I do note with interest that some that we can't identify as Scottish
were raised in very Scottish areas such as Prince Edward Island and Nova
Scotia and also went to Scottish founded universities. Quite a few also
went into business with other Scots. Where we thought someone was of
Scots descent but it doesn't make it clear in the biography we have
searched the web for any reference and if we found it we've included
them here.]
Volume 2 - Biographical
[Note: some 25+% of the biographies in this volume are Scots or people
of Scots descent thus showing the impact that Scots had on the Province
of Alberta.]
Hon. Alexander Cameron Rutherford, K.
C., LL. D. Herbert Greenfield Hon. Alex Ross Hon. Charles Wilson Cross Joseph H. Ross Harry Austin Driggs
George William Kerby, B. A., D. D.
Colonel Frederick Charles Jamieson
Percy W. Abbott
Hon. P. Edmond Lessard
Joseph J. Duggan
Rev. James McCaffrey
Arthur H. Russell, K. C.
Samuel H. Adams, B. A., K. C.
Stephen Dillingham
John Darley Harrison, M. D.
H. Spencer Kerby, D. S. C., A. F. C.
Walter Huckvale
William Grant Carpenter
Edwin A. McBain
Ernest W. Coffin, B. A., PH. D. Kenneth A. McLeod Hon. William Asbury Buchanan
Mrs. Emily Ferguson Murphy
Wilfred B. Browne William Duncan Livingston Hardie Joseph Gillis, B. A. Alexander Hannah Charles R. Morrison Adam H. Esch James Hossack Woods
Clemens H. Grunert, V. S. Frank W. Russell
Hon. Jeremiah W. Heffernan, K. C., M. P. P.
James F. Adamson, M. D. William Laurie
Norman Montague Plummer
Theodore Brandley
Charles W. Leonard
Ephram Harker
Reginald Cumberlay Day, B. A. Brigadier General John Smith Stewart
Hon. Nicholas Du Bois Dominic Beck
Barney W. Collison
Robert A. Maitland Cook, M. D.
J. A. Carswell
William N. Condell, M. D. Albert W. Fraser
W. Dixon Craig
John F. Fowler
Joseph Ward Turner
Vincent I. Stewart John Walter
David Burton Emeno
George C. M. Boothe
Alfred J. N. Terrill
W. W. Gould
James B. Corbet
Simpson James Shepherd, K. C.
William Montgomery Chandler
Cavallo W. Rickerd
Edward N. Barker Rev. David G. McQueen, D. D., LL. D.
Edward H. Maunsell Thomas H. Whitelaw, B. A., M. B.
A. Clark Bury
Hon. John A. Jackson
Frank G. Stanley
John William Hugill, K. C., D. C. L., LL. B. John MacKenzie
Thomas P. Greentree
J. A. Blezard, M. D., C. M.
Charles Lavelle Willis Hon. Andrew Robert McLennan, M. P. P.
John Thomas Bateman
Ralph Victor Bellamy, M. A.
Samuel B. Ferris
David Horton Elton
Robert Benjamin Burland
T. Gilbert Onsum John Keith James Rae, Sr.
Samuel Archibald Dickson
Thomas C. Milnes Alexander Gillespie, M. D.
Alphonsus Lannan, B. A., LL. B.
Joseph Andrew Clarke
Crammond R. Morton William C. MacKay
Charles E. K. Cox
Walter Stuart Galbraith, M. D., C. M.
Reginald Harry Brett, M. D.
Curt P. M. Smith
Rev. Henry Goutier A. Blair Paterson, LL. D.
G. L. Williamson, M. D.
John Callaghan William Henderson
Carleton G. Sheldon Peter M. Campbell, M. D.
Captain Frederick L. Shouldice
E. N. Hallock. Walter Ramsay
James Shouldice
William Alexander Wells, B. A.
P. F. Smith, M. D.
Heber S. Allen
Levi Webster
A. Gladstone Virtue
Arthur W. Challand
Richard A. Pilling
Philip Quesnel, M. D. John Montgomerie-Bell Walter G. Ross
W. J. Bartlett David Ritchie Donald C. McEachern
Michael Hogan
William Short John Herron
Henry Austin Chadwick
James May Salton McGibbon, M. D.
George Bligh O'Connor, K. C.
Eugene E. Chandler
R. G. Douglas, M. D. Rev. R. Lorne McTavish
Norman R. Blue John M. Miller
William E. Bryans, M. D. Francis Stacy McCall
Father Louis C. Walravens
Thomas Longworth
William C. Wood
John Collison, M. D.
James Stanley Kirkham
Harry Havelock Robertson, K. C.
William George Niblock
Ambrose B. Singleton, M. D.
Fred A. Keillor, M. D.
George M. Gibson, M. D.
W. J. Huntingford
Right Rev. Clement Hoyler
Harold Hargreaves
George E. Hayward
William J. Jackson George B. MacKay Ernest Victor Robertson
William G. Way
John D. Higinbotham, J. P. J. D. and H. N. Stephens Joseph Hare Mercer
Leighton C. Conn, M. B., C. M., F. A. C. S.
Benjamin F. Olsen
Edwin H. Jones
Alfred Fletcher Carrothers
Grover Cleveland Duncan John McGregor Campbell
Tilley Strang Tupper, M. D.
Clyde A. Hook
Father Thomas P. Murphy
Robert Taylor Telford
James P. McCormick, M. D. Malcolm Campbell McCannel, C. A.
Frederick M. Oldham Gilbert M. Atkin, M. D.
William H. Ripley
H. G. Hoare, D. D. S.
Father Henry Grandin, O. M. I.
Owen Williams
Maurice L. Brown
Hugh B. Brown
William Pearce
H. Milton Martin
David Johnson Grier
Alexander H. Goodwin, D. D. S. Rev. Alexander McTaggart
Norman T. Beeman, M. D.
Rev. E Pierce Goulding
Leslie C. Cox John McNeill
Albert L. Wood
Hjaldermar Ostlund, K. C.
Leverett George Deveber, M. D. William E. Hay Howard Havelock Hepburn, M. D., C. M. John A. Reid, M. D.
Frank Brown
Rev. Christopher Carruthers
Geoffrey G. Lafferty
Samuel Augustus Gordon Barnes
Dick A. Taylor, M. D. Charles Edward Shaw
Joseph Montalbetti
Rev. Joseph Lebris
Andrew Michelsen
Henry George Morris
Harry Clinton Yuill
Austin De B. Winter Howard B. MacDonald Richard Wallace
Michael Joseph Gallagher
Aubrey S. Tuttle, D. D.
Richard Parsons, M. D.
Arthur Charles Lewis Adams, LL. B.
Ernest A. Sharman
John Stanley Wray, M. D.
Rt. Rev. Henry Allen Gray, D. D.
Cecil Ethelbert Race
Samuel S. Dunham John M. Millar Arthur Melville Scott, B. A., PH. D.
John James Dunn
James H. Hadfield
Loring Harrison Putnam
Rev. Michael J. O'Gorman
Walter Edward Pitcher
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Redman, LL. B.
Isaiah Willis McArdle
Father Ivor J. E. Daniel
Clive A. Staples, M. D.
Walter F. Monkman, D. D. S. William Mather
The Most Rev. Henry Joseph O'Leary, D. D., J. C. P., Ph, D,, LL. D.
John Craig Brokovski, LL. B., K. C. Hugh Calais MacDonald, K. C., LL. B.
Oliver Boyd, M. P.
Rev. Canon W. G. James
Hon. George Hedley Vicars Bulyea, B. A., LL D.
John W. Evans
John Pilling Harold Grant Mavesyn Nyblett, M. D.
Right Rev. Thomas Marie
Edward Ainslie Braithwaite, M. D,, L. M., C. C. Louis A. Roy, M. D.
A. Blais, M. D.
Henry A. Meredith
Harry G. Taylor, M. D.
Alfred L. Bessey
Cecil Stanley Mahood, M. D.
John Perrie
Joseph Little
Charles Egan John Walter McDonald, K. C.
Patrick Harcourt-O'Reilly, B. A.
John H. Fleetwood
Jonathan E. Bagley
Dr. A. T. Turner and Dr. G. C. Wagner
Peter J. Breen
Asa H. Gibson
Edward Windham Burley
Joseph E. Hodgson
Percy L. Sanford
Charles Broughton Bowman Miles Kennedy
Henry Dickie, M. A., D. D.
J. E. Lambert
Alexander Scott Dawson, B. A. Sc.
Everett Hobart Reed, M. D. Norman E. Carruthers
John Edward Brownlee
J. E. Carmichael, M. D.
William A. Hamilton
George B. Davies
Richard Duthie
Josephus F. Philip Hon. James Duncan Hyndman G. Frank Butler
Thomas S. Gregson
William Thomas Ogden
William Victor Newson, B. A., M. Sc.
William James Loggie
Bertram S. Smith
Bernard R. Mooney, M. D.
George H. Hutton
Edgar William Allin, M. D., C. M.
Marion L. Stoddard
Norman K. Luxton
Everett Thomas Love William Crawford David L. Dick, M. D. Frank Beattie
Warren W. Prevey
Lewis Stockett Hon. Perren E. Baker, B. A., M. P. P. Colin G. Gruff William John Simpson, M. D. Robert B. C. Thomson, M. D. Donald MacKie
Dawson Graham, M. D., C. M.
Alfred Chard
Christian Jensen William David Spence
Byard Smith William Morley Seller
Herbert E. Kelley Murray H. Lister
William Lewis Thompson
Vernon Smith Shaw
W. Ernest Payne
Malcolm E. Thornton William Oliver
Roy W. Henry Hugh J. Montgomery James H. Dowdell
Alfred M. Peters
Arthur K. Whiston
H. G. Mortson
J. D. Oliver Mothersill
Herbert L. Cunningham
Albert Palmer Corey Belyea, B. Sc.
Maurice Mathew O'Brien
Major Alexander Boswell Stafford
Richard P. Blakey, F. R. I. B. A.
Rev. Robert H. Leitch, PH. B. Alexander Galbraith
John Jeremiah O'Connor, LL. B.
Harry Nelson
Charles E. Coleman, M. D.
Frank Coffin
Joseph Olivier, M. D. Peter Edwin Graham
Charles G. Robson
Andrew Frankland Anderson, M. D.
Walter Lewis Veness Andrew Gilmour
Frederick F. Harker
Chauncey E. Snow
Robert B. Wells, M. D.
Arthur George Baalim John Thomson Stirling
Thomas Henry Blow, M. D. J. Roy Drysdale, B. A., LL. B.
Alfred Weller Girvin, M. D., C. M. James McGavin
Frederick William Lundy
Morton Eldred Hall, M. D.
Howard W. Reeves
J. W. Weir. John A. McPherson, M. D.
Peter A. Wintemute
Michael Copps Costello, M. D., C. M.
Volume 3 - Biographical
[Note: some 25+% of the biographies in this volume are Scots or people
of Scots descent thus showing the impact that Scots had on the Province
of Alberta.]
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Adams, H. K.
Allen, A. M. Anderson, E. W.
Anderson, I. B. Anderson,
Johannas Armitage, H. B. Ashcraft, J. H.
Atkinson, W. A.
Audy, L. G.
B
Bain, C. E.
Baldwin & Hurlburt
Barton, W. O.
Bates, O. E.
Bawden, I. W.
Beddard, F. A. Beebe, W. A.
Bishop, E. S. Blain, A. Y.
Blair, H. A. Blakey, W. G.
Boon, C. W.
Botteley, T. B. D.
Bottom, W. H.
Bowker, James
Bown, J. C. P. Bowness, E. W.
Boyce, J. F.
Braden, H. O.
Bradshaw, B. W.
Brankley, W. L.
Brett, H. G.
Brown, J. E.
Brown, James B.
Brown, W. O.
Browning, A. G.
Bruner, P. C. Buchanan, J. M.
Burgess, J. K.
Burley, A. E.
Burnett, W. B.
Busselle, A. W.
Butler, J. L.
Buxton, Joseph
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Calder, David Calder, Malcolm Cameron, A. R.
Cameron, A. H. Campbell, A. M.
Card, J. V.
Carlyle, P. P.
Carnill, William
Carroll, C. W. Carstairs, W. F. W. Carter, J. M.
Casselman, F. C.
Cautley, H. H.
Chapman, C. H.
Chapman, W. C.
Christie, V. V. Clark, J. A.
Clarke, G. A.
Collins, H. L.
Conn, H. W.
Connolly, C. F.
Connor, E. L.
Coombs, M. A.
Cooper, S. R. P.
Cottingham, H. H.
Coulter, H. S.
Coutts, T. H.
Cowan, J. D. Craig, G. W.
Craig, M. A.
Craig, W. H.
Crawford, H. H.
Crawford, J. L.
Cross, A. A.
Crump, E. D.
D
Davies, Richard Dawson, H. M.
Decker, H. S.
Deery, Daniel
Dehong, E. W.
de Rosenroll, A. S.
Dinning, H. J. Dixon, William
Dorman, J. A.
Douglas, Howard
Dower, J. D.
Downer, F. W.
Driscoll, Alfred
Drumheller, Samuel Drummond, L. E.
Duce, Thomas Duff, D. A.
Duggan, D. M.
Duggan, J. I.
Dunn, D. J.
Dutil, Louis
Dutka, Michael
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Ebbett, A. W.
Egbert, W. O.
Eghert, William
Ellert, J. P.
Elwin, G. N.
English, T. F.
Esdale, Mathew
Evans, H. M. E.
Evans, W. P.
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Fancy, F. L.
Farquharson, W. O. Faulds, Robert
Field, C. W.
Filer, P. K.
Finlay, W. T.
Fond, C. J.
Forster, M. L. Frame, J. W.
Francis, H. C.
Francis, R. B. Fraser, J. E. Fraser, Jesse
Freeland, H. L.
Freeman, Manfred
French, V. C.
Frizzell, H. E. Frizzle, R. J.
Furgeson, H. W.
Hall, J. R.
Halpin, C. B.
Hanna, W. J.
Hanson, J. A.
Harden, C. J.
Hardy, William
Harker, Levi
Harris, W. M. Harrison, W. G.
Hart, W. R .
Head, J. J.
Heagle, Everard A. and Bros.
Heagie, H. A.
Hegler, H. S. Henderson, W. H. Henderson, William
Henry, T. W. E.
Henry W. T.
Hewgill, W. H.
Heywood, J. A.
Hick, Fred
Higgins, Alfred
Hill, H. L.
Hoadley, George
Hogg, H. S.
Holden, J. T.
Holden, J. O. H.
Holman, G. A.
Holmes, C. U.
Hope, G. J.
Home, C. W. H.
Home, Fairfield
Horne, W. L.
Howatt, D. D. Howatt, I. B.
Hudson, G. F.
Hunt, J. D.
Hynes, W. T.
Jack, Gavin
Jamieson, A. E. Jamieson, C. V.
Jennings, M. H.
Johnson, J. P.
Johnson, I. L.
Johnston, J. P.
Jones, H. W.
Jones, James
Jordan, A. O.
Juhlin, J. L.
Naismith, P. L.
Nash, H. H.
Naylor, George Nelson, J. A., Sr.
Nelson, S. W.
Nicol, G. S.
Nolan, P. J.
Norquay, Alexander
Norstrant, J. G.
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O'Callaghan, R. H. L.
Odell, W. H. Ormond, David
O'Rourke, H. L.
Orr, J. S.
Ouimette, W. L.
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Pardee, E. C.
Parrish, J. F. Paterson, R. J. R.
Patriquin, H. O.
Patton, William
Paul, J. K.
Pawling, H. Y.
Pearson, J. L.
Pelton, G. V.
Pennefather, P. W.
Pescod, H. G.
Pincott, R. W.
Poffenroth, J. C.
Porritt, C. J. Potter, A. H.
Prettie, R. D
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Quinton, Bert
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Ragan, W. J. Ramsey, James
Ransford, Henry
Raver, C. A.
Reader, W. B.
Redmond, W. C.
Reed, C. H.
Reid, C. J. Reid, John Reid, R. G.
Rendall, Archie
Rendall, H. J.
Richardson, J. W. Ririe, J. B.
Roberts, J. G.
Robertson, R. D.
Robinson, James
Rooney, H. A.
Ross, Allan
Roy, H. J.
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Rushton, H. L.
Rusk, J. C. Russell, C. H.
Ryan, Denis
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St. Germain, Omer
Salmon, M. C.
Sanders, G. E.
Sargent, S. J.
Saunders, H. P.
Sexsmith, Marston
Sharpe, E. M.
Shaw, F. D.
Shaw, Harvey
Shearer, R. L.
Shera, .J. W.
Sherlock, R. E.
Sibbald, H. E.
Simpson, H. W. Sinclair A. M.
Skelding, George
Slight, F. J.
Smailes, Frederick Smart, James Smith, Alexander Smith, E. M.
Smith, J. S.
Smith, V. W. Smith, W. D.
Spackman, W. H. Spalding, J. W.
Sparks, E. M.
Spencer, Mark
Stack, L. H.
Staples, M. H.
Staples, R. H.
Staiky, J. B.
Stedman, T. H.
Steed, W. H.
Stevenson, T. H. Stickle, W. A.
Stocks, John
Strong, O. F.
Stutchhury, Howard Sutherland, W. H.
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Tait. Harry
Tanner, H. P.
Taylor, H. C.
Terrill, J. E.
Terrill, S. N.
Thompson. F. A.
Thompson, T. S.
Thompson, W. .J. Thomson, E. D. C.
Tracy, F. W.
Trimble, A. H.
John
McDougall was born in 1842 in Sydenham, Upper Canada to George and
Elizabeth McDougall. George McDougall was a Scottish Methodist missionary and, as
a result, John grew up attending mission schools and learning to speak
Ojibwa and Cree. He wrote several books about his life growing up in
Alberta and you can read his books
here!
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