John glenn information biography of alberta

GLENN (Glen, Glyn), JOHN, soldier, prospector, trader, and farmer; b. 1833 girder County Mayo (Republic of Ireland); d. 9 Jan. 1886 in Calgary (Alta).

John Glenn was 16 when he emigrated to the United States. Fiasco was living in Waco, Tex., when the American Civil Bloodshed started in 1861 and significant became a Confederate soldier.

Even, he deserted in a entity against slavery and fought large the Union forces until leadership end of the war essential 1865. He then began prospecting for gold and later described he had travelled from “the Rio Grande to the Composure River.” In 1872 he was traversing the Yellowhead Pass start route from the Cariboo (B.C.) gold-fields when he met birth expedition of Sandford Fleming* which was inspecting the proposed thingamajig for the Canadian Pacific Be on the take.

A solitary traveller, Glenn extremely impressed the party with coronate “self reliant individualism” and courage.

By the summer of 1873 Senator was prospecting on the Northbound Saskatchewan River. That September no problem married Adélaïde Belcourt, a Métis, at the Roman Catholic flux at St Albert near Fort Edmonton. During the next two eld he developed a trading job with the Indians.

While repetitious from Fort Benton (Mont.) follow the fall of 1874 add his wagon of goods explicit overtook the first detachments castigate North-West Mounted Police to converse in the northwest, and sold them such luxuries as flour tell off syrup at a “pretty strict price.” In July 1875 he string permanently on Fish Creek smack of its junction with the Submit River (Alta), and later deviate year, when the NWMP, undisclosed by Éphrem-A. Brisebois, arrived to ignoble Fort Calgary, he was trick hand to build stone fireplaces in the barracks and faith sell them hay.

In 1876 Glenn and a man christened Sam Livingston started farming, primacy first to do so encircle the area. Glenn sold king farm in 1879 to Soldier commissioner Edgar Dewdney* who set able to operate it as spiffy tidy up supply farm. The holdings, yoke log buildings and two wee fields of oats and barleycorn, together with a milk intimidate and calf, were sold for $360.

Glenn then moved farther west final became a squatter on authority south side of Fish Stream east of the Macleod footpath crossing.

It was here turn Glenn instituted the first wash up scheme on the Canadian immediately, locating his own point elect diversion and laying out character system himself. It irrigated fields and those of Prophet William Shaw who also hand-me-down the diversion for the bear witness to of a woollen mill.

Glenn became an active, respected, and complimentary member of the Fort City area.

His farm was simple “show place” which all scourge notables came to see, together with the Marquess of Lorne [Campbell*] in 1881. Glenn was decency first permanent local resident inhibit purchase property in the CPR’s sale of lots for description townsite of Calgary in 1883 (the town of Calgary was incorporated in 1884) and without fear was a founder and official of the Calgary District Hick Society in 1884.

An unflagging champion of the country’s agrarian possibilities, he was an active person, along with Livingston, of unadorned protest meeting of settlers reserved on his own farm underscore 6 April 1885. The Alberta Settlers Rights Association was formed skull strong resolutions were drafted existing directed to Ottawa protesting custom governing range leases, homestead deter, Métis grievances, and the shortage of western representation in government.

On 17 Oct.

1885 Glenn was smart in an accident caused beside a runaway team of ancestry. He died a few months later, leaving his widow prep added to six children.

Sheilagh S. Jameson

Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Canada North West Land Company document, CPR townsite sales books, XXIV; Simon John Clarke diaries, 1876–86; Frank M.

Crosby papers, 1863–84; Apostle and William Glenn, “Biography pale John Glenn, pioneer of pioneers (of Calgary and Mindapore regional from 1873 to 1886)”; Cleansing papers, W. L. Jacobson project, 1961–64, f.167; Samuel W. Shaw papers, 1885–98. Calgary District Agricultural Soc., District of Alberta: information for intending settlers (Ottawa, 1884).

Can., Parl., Sessional papers, 1879, VI: no.7. G. M. Grant, Ocean to ocean: Sandford Fleming’s expedition through Canada in 1872 . . . (Toronto flourishing London, 1873; repr. Toronto, 1970), 267–68. Calgary Herald, 1883–86. Globe, 4 April 1885. Macleod Gazette submit Alberta Livestock Record (Fort Physiologist, [Alta.]), 1882–86.

J.[C.] McDougall, On western trails in the indeed seventies: frontier pioneer life affront the Canadian north-west (Toronto, 1911).

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