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Field name | Value |
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Title | Edward F.J. Hills to his parents. -- November 19, 1883 |
Archival Reference | M-7988-18 |
Sub-collection | Ted Hills |
Author | Hills, Edward F.J. |
Date | 19 Nov 1883 |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Contents | Regarding trapping beavers, first encounter with the "Noble Savage" [Indians], inside a wigwam, sheep farming, and canoeing. |
Sub-collection Information | Edward F.J. Hills. 1863-ca. 1955, born in Littlehampton, England, came to Canada in 1883. He spent a year in Ontario before joining a Dominion Land Survey party which surveyed several townships near Carlton, Saskatchewan. He arrived in Calgary, Alberta in November 1884, and for many years worked as a cowboy on various southern Alberta ranches. He acquired his own ranch near High River, called the Echo Glen Ranch. He and his wife, Nora Griffin, returned to England ca. 1908 for several years, operated a coffee plantation in Kenya until the early 1930s, then retired once more to England where he died. |
Region | Canada |
Subjects | First Nations Indigenous Peoples Hunting Narratives, accounts and histories Construction and Building Agriculture Livestock Wildlife and Nature Alcohol Banking and Finance Domestic Life and Living Conditions |
Places | Ilfracombe; Ontario |
People | Hills, Edward F.J. Bell, M. T. Murray, Miss Kitty Stedman, Mrs R. |
Themes | Indigenous Peoples |
Library | Glenbow Museum |
Copyright | Glenbow Museum |