Consolidated Addendum to April 25, 2004 - Pioneer Profiles: H

Haines

Mr. Haines in 1885, as part of Haines & Gridley, purported he was one of the leading photographers in Calgary. The firms Mona Gallery was located on Atlantic avenue, opposite the CPR station.

Ref: Calgary, Her Industries & Resources, 1885.

Haldorson, Johann

Johann Haldorson and Haldora Gunnarsdottir emigrated in 1888 with five sons from Argyle, Manitoba. Mr. Haldorson died in 1892.

Ref: The Crag & Canpon, Vol. 17, Banff, Alta.

Haldimand, A.W.

Mr. Haldimand, a pharmacist arrived in 1885 when he succeded Mr. Alexander Macdonald, Manager of Medical Hall.. He was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1885.

Ref: Calgary, Her Industries & Resources March, 1885.

Hall, Harry Hans

Harry Hall came to the Gladys district in the 1880s and homesteaded the SW 1/4 of Sec.20-20-27-W4M. He moved to High River in 1916 and died at Gleichen.

Ref: Gladys-Dinton through the years.

Halliday, W.J.

Mr. Halliday was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1889.

Halpen, Charles B.

Charles Halpen connected with the CPR at Calgary in 1884. Later he established the first newspaper Life in Banff, Alberta.

Ref: The Calgary Herald, July 08, 1950.

Hamilton, Charles Edward

Charles Hamilton, born September 23, 1863, arrived west of the Great Lakes in June, 1880. He later walked into Calgary before the CPR was constructed in 1883. He lived between Calgary and Field Alberta.

Hamilton, David

David Hamilton was at Calgary in 1875 and carried on a business as a blacksmith for a number of years in this district.

Ref: Calgary, Her Industries & Resources, 1885.

Hamilton, Frank & Sarah

Frank Hamilton married to Sarah McDougal had four children who all came to the DeWinton district in 1883 and he went into partnership with his brother Samuel. In 1884 the partnership dissolved and he and his family moved to Calgary where he became active in the real estate business.

Ref: Sodbusters to Subdivisions.

Hamilton, Gavin

Gavin Hamilton, a Scotsman, was the first settler in the Westerdale District when he filed on a homestead on SE 1/4 of Sec.28-32-3-W5M in 1880. When he completed a log house on his property he had Mrs. Hamilton, sons, daughter and son-in-law come west. He established the first post office in the area and had a small store. He was a land surveyor and in that capacity helped others identify land location stakes for settlers. He later left the district to move to Calgary.

Ref: A Trail Grows Dim, Westerdale Willing Workers.

Hamilton, James

James Hamilton came west from Ontario as a hired hand to Tom Brown in 1886. He married Miss Dorland near Lethbridge, and worked for the Brown Ranch near Cardston. He left the Brown Ranch about 1901 or 1902 and worked for Col. Mackie, owner of Milk River Ranching Company. He died at Lethbridge.

Hamilton, Samuel

Samuel Hamilton came to Calgary in 1881 and homesteaded on NE 1/4 of Sec.27-21-1-W5M located some two miles southwest of DeWinton. He was the first settler in that area and lived on the farm until 1914. He died a bachelor in 1915.

Ref: Sodbusters to Subdivisions.

Hammer, Josiah and Elizabeth

Josiah and Elizabeth Hammer were the youngest married couple to come to Cardston in 1887. Josiah was born in Utah in 1855 and Elizabeth in 1858. They had three children. He was active in the community holding many offices on the Town Council. In 1887 Elizabeth was an obstetrician and mid-wife. Josiah died May 18, 1922 and Elizabeth died on July 19, 1929.

Ref: Chief Mountain Country Vol. #2.

Hammond, George

George Hammond was reported to be one of the men who took part in the Cypress hills Massacre 1865.

Ref: Leaning on the Wind p. 59.

Hanna, Louis Dale

Louis Hanna arrived or was born in Calgary in 1889.

Ref: SAPD membership application files, Re: his daughter Doris B. Johnston.

Hansen, Ezra Alvin

Ezra Hansen and his father arrived from Logan, Utah to homestead in the Cardston area in 1890. They drove cattle and horses to the area. Later that year in September when he had prepared a house for his family, his wife Mary and three children joined him. He farmed/ranched on his homestead ten miles southeast of Cardston on the St. Marys River all of his life. He was instrumental in developing the first sawmill on Lees Creek. Ezra and Mary in total had four daughters and six sons, all of whom have made their home in Alberta. Ezra died on September 15, 1945.

Ref: Hardwick Papers.

Hansen, Niels

Niels Hansen, a tailor, was born in 1832 in Brastoff, Denmark. He married Eva Leota Hochstrasser on March 14, 1886 at Logan, Utah. They came to Aetna, Alberta in 1890, near Cardston, by wagon. Their homestead farm and ranch was east of Cardston. He later became a Bishop of Aetna Ward until he died in January, 1950 at Cardston. He is buried at Weiser, Idaho.

Ref: Hardwick Papers.

Hanson, Walter George

Walter Hanson, born in India, came to Manitoba, Canada in 1888 at the age of 18 years. In 1890 he moved to High River and then on to the coast in BC. In 1892 he returned to High River and bought a coal mine in partnership with Dan Riley and in 1894 he started his own ranch. In 1898 he participated in the Yukon gold rush. Returning to Highwood he built up his Chinook ranch in 1904 and raised fine horses and top Hereford cattle. He married Ruth Deane Freman in 1914. They retired to High River in 1946. Walter passed away in 1948 and Ruth in 1958.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree p. 120.

Harker, Ephrian

Ephrian Harker, born in Taylorville, Utah on December 28, 1854, came to the Cardston area on May 11, 1889 to establish a sheep ranch. In October of 1890 he and C.O. Card trailed 2200 sheep from Montana to Alberta. Ephrian originally married to Alice Bennion married Sarah Elizabeth Carter on March 25, 1889 in Utah prior to coming to Alberta. In 1902 Ephrian Harker and Heber S. Allen opened a flour mill on the banks of the St. Marys River. The mill was damaged in the 1908 flood and it was moved to Cardston. Ephrian a lover of good horses took great delight in exhibiting his livestock at county fairs. He died on March 29, 1932 and is buried at Cardston. He had 13 children.

Ref: Hardwick Papers.

Harper, Arthur Edward

Arthur Harper came to Canada as a captain in the British Army in 1885. He joined the NWMP in 1885 and took part in the Riel Rebellion He was a sergeant at the Dry Fork detachment on Kootnai River and later at the St. Marys detachment until 1887. He took his discharge around 1888-89 and married Jessie Shaw who came west from Kentville, Nova Scotia in 1885. They ranched on St. Marys River for three years, moved to Innisfail, and eventually to California befor to England where he died in 1901.

Ref: Hardwick Papers.

Harris, Charles F.

Charles Harris was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1890.

Harrison, H. C.

Mr. Harrison was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge prior to December 31, 1890.

Hart, Frank

Frank Hart was an American cowboy, who escaped to Alberta from Montana after he had shot a store owner in Birch Creek in 1886. He was considered a good hand, obtained a job and remained in Alberta.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree p. 263.

Harty, (Herlly) David

David Harty was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1886.

Hayden, Dr.

Dr. Hayden opened a drug store and office in Cochrane, Alberta in 1877.

Hayes, Glennon, Harry

Mr. Hayes, a shoemaker, came to the southern NWT in 1890.

Ref: SAPD membership application files.

Haynes, William

William Haynes, a missionary with the Anglican Church, came to serve the Blackfoot tribe at Gleichen in 1889. He opened a boarding school for Indian boys where a Miss Brown, also a missionary came from Eastern Canada, was one of the first teachers. In 1883 Cannon Haynes went to the Blood Reserve to oversee the day school at Chief Red Crows camp near Standoff. In 1884 he returned to the Blackfoot Reserve where in 1885 a new school for Indian boys was built of which Canon Haynes became principal until 1887 when he became principal of the Victoria Home for Indian children near Brocket on the Peigan Reserve. He died in 1937.

Ref: ???

Heald, William Herbert

William Heald homesteaded SW 1/4 of Sec.2-21-2-W5M located in the Pine Creek area in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Heald and son Larry, moved to BC in 1903.

Ref: Our Foothills Bragg Creek, Kew and Millarville.

Heath, Malcolm

Malcolm Heath along with others formed a partnership in 1888 and started to raise sheep in the Pincher Creek area.

Ref: History of the Early Days of Pincher Creek p. 7.

Heaton, George

George Heaton came to Pincher Creek area from Europe in 1887. In partnership with F. Tetley and Malcom Heath, he started raising sheep which they bought from Fred Morris in 1888.

Ref: History of the Early Days of Pincher Creek p. 7.

Herald, Rev. James

Rev. Hearld held church services in Medicine Hat from 1885 to 1890.

Ref: Early History of Medicine Hat Country.

Henry, Arthur Henry

Arthur Henry, a harness maker, came to Fort Macleod in 1887.

Ref: SAPD membership application files.

Herfoot, William Duncan

William Herfoot arrived in Calgary in 1881. His son Archibald Douglas was born July29, 1890 in Calgary.

Ref: SAPD membership application files.

Hervey, Philip Charles Bernard

Philip Hervey, a railway construction engineer, came to Calgary in the 1880s from Ontario. He worked for the CPR, building the Crowsnest and Edmonton railway lines. He acted as head engineer constructing irrigation ditches in the Strathmore area. In 1886 he purchased a section of land in the Red Deer Lake area from Arthur Peake. In 1912 he was Superintendant of National Parks of Western Canada.. He married Penuel Halcombe fom England on June 4, 1884. Mrs. Hervey died in 1934, he lived at Midnapore until his death in 1940.

Ref: Sodbusters to Subdivisions & The Fireguard Trail.

Hilane, Samuel Rowland

Samuel Hilane was born at Whitewater, near Brandon Manitoba, about 1859. He came to Alberta as a CPR contractor. He and Minnie McPhee from PEI, were the first couple to be married at the Church of The Redeemer in Calgary on August 30, 1884.

Ref: Celebrations 100th Anniversary of The Cathedral Church of The Redeemer.

Hinoston, John

John Hinoston was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1889.

Hinman, Frank

Frank Hinman, born in 1871, came to the Cardston area from Utah in July 1889, travelling with his mother Rhoda and sister Nellie, where they joined his father Morgan Hinman, who settled in the Cardston area in 1887. The three of them drove a team with a wagon loaded with furniture together with a herd of cattle. It took six weeks to make the trip from Utah to Cardston. Frank married Sarah Hockstraueser in 1891, had two daughters and died in 1894 in Cardston.

Ref: Hardwick Papers.

Hinman, Morgan Lewis

Morgan Hinman, born October 7, 1831 at Stockbridge, Mass., came to the Cardston area with his brother, Henry and settled in the locality known as Lees Creek. In 1887 his wife, Rhoda, and 18 year old son, Frank and 12 year old daughter, Nellie, joined him in 1889. Morgan, a skilled carpenter, helped build many of the first homes in Cardston. In 1890 he was involved in construction of the NWMP police barracks at Fort Macleod. He and his brother, and their two sons, homesteaded Sec.34-2-25-W4M. He died on July 3, 1891.

Ref: Hardwick Papers.

Hinman, Henry Lyman.

Henry Hinman with his brother Morgan and his son Lewis, arrived in Cardston in October, 1887. He and his brother Morgan, both millwrights and carpenters, helped build many of the first homes consisting of log houses with sod roofs in Cardston. In June of 1890, Henrys wife, Mary Jane, and their family of six children arrived in Cardston. Henry and his brother Morgan and their two sons, homesteaded Sec.34-2-25-W4M. Henry was one of the first councilmen, the first Notary Public, and the first Justice of the Peace in the village of Cardston. He died 27 January, 1921.

Ref: Hardwick Papers.

Hilton, Frank.

Frank Hilton was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1886.

Hinton, Frank.

Frank and his wife Sarah and their two daughters, Ada Louise and Jessie came from Putney, England to Pincher Creek, arriving May 3, 1887. Tom Hinton, brother of Frank, had a lumber yard and Frank and his family joined him. They had a son Dick and their daughter Ada Louise married Arthur Charles Kemmis, the first lawyer in Pincher Creek, in 1902. Ada and Arthur had two children, Helen Aileen and Sibyl Olphert. Frank Hinton died in 1908, Sarah in 1935 at the age of 83 years.

Ref: Prairie Grass to Mountain Pass.

Hoad, Mrs. Nelson

Mrs. Hoad was the first matron of the first hospital in Calgary. It was located in an unoccupied corner residence on Ninth Avenue West and Seventh Street in 1890. The hospital was established as the typhoid epidemic threatened local residents.

Ref: The Calgary Daily Herald, Nov. 18, 1933.

Hogg, S.J.

Mr. S.J. Hogg was a Calgary town councilor in 1884 when the Town of Calgary was incorporated on November 17, 1884.

Ref: The Calgary Herald, July 13, 1943.

Hogg, Solomon Moses

Soloman Hogg, a stockman, came to Medicine Hat in 1886.

Ref: SAPD membership application files.

Holbroke, E.C.

Mr. E. Holbroke was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1889.

Holland.

Mr. Holland was a Beaver Creek polo player in 1888.

Ref: History of the Early Days of Pincher Creek p. 10 12.

Holloway, Mark

Mark Holloway came to Alberta in the 1870s from Montana.

Ref: History of the Early Days of Pincher Creek p. 4 -5.

Holloway, Mart.

Mart Holloways mine was opened in 1880 by J.B. Stone, a practical engineer, sent by a syndicate represented by J.B. Smith of Fort Macleod.

Ref: History of the Early Days of Pincher Creek p. 10 12.

Holt

Mr. Holt was the editor of the Medicine Hat News in 1887.

Ref: Early History of Medicine Hat Country p. 38 - 40.

Hooper, Sydney

Sydney Hooper, born in England, was in Fort Kipp in 1884 when he moved to the site of the Hooper-Huckville Ranch which was known as the Fiddle Back Ranch.

Ref: The Forgotten Corner p. 17.

Horn, A.V.

Mr. A. V. Horn was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1889.

Horton, Edith Lillian

(see longer profile)

Edith Horton, born November 19, 1866 in London, England, came to Canada in 1883. In 1883 she travelled west by train from Montreal to Medicine Hat, by sternwheeler to Lethbridge, on packhorses and wagons to Fort Macleod and by stagecoach to Calgary. In 1890 she married Harold Morton Henderson, who was a railroad worker and later an Anglican Minister, at Donald Station. They lived in many places in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Rev. Henderson was Rector of St. Barnabas Church in Calgary 1921-1929. They had four children, Cecil, Stanley, Ethel and Phillip. She died in 1945.

Ref: Gerald T. Weber, her grandson.

Houston, William

William Houston was recorded as a charter member of the Masonic Lodge Bow River No. 1, Calgary instituted in 1884.

Howard, Joseph Robert & Robert Jr.

Joseph Howards family came to Canada from Tipperary, Ireland and settled in Ontario for a while. They moved to Morleyville in 1886, and about 1890 moved to Cochrane. Their one son, Robert married Louise Vizena in Pembroke, Ontario. They initially lived in Calgary, working at odd jobs, but moved to Cochrane where work was more available. Robert was a cabinet maker by trade and went into the carpentry business. He took up a homestead south of Cochrane. Robert had eight children. He died in 1923 at age 73, and his wife, Louise died in 1930 at age 76.

Ref: Big Hill Country, p. 240

Howard, Solomon

Solomon Howard, a building contractor, arrived in Banff in 1887.

Ref: SAPD membership application files.

Humphrey, Billie

Billie Humphrey was one of the Beaver Creek Polo players in 1888.

Ref: History of the Early Days of Pincher Creek p. 10 12.

Hutchinson, Thomas

Thomas Hutchinson came to Medicine Hat around 1884 and opened the first saddle and harness shop in Medicine Hat.

Ref: Early History of Medicine Hat Country p. 38 40.

Hunter, Adeline

Adeline Hunter homsteaded SW 1/4 of Sec.28- 34-1 W5M in July, 1888.

Ref: Olds First.

Hunford, Jonas Jonson

Jonas Hunford came from the US to the Hola district in 1880 and homesteaded NE 1/4 of Sec.16-37-2-W5M. He was born and educated in Iceland and wrote much of the history of the Hola district in his Icelandic Almanacs. Jonas was instrumental in establishing a library and was librarian until his health failed.

Ref: History of Craig, Dickson, Happy Hill, Hola etc.

Hyde, Don Carlos

Don Carlos Hyde, born April 1, 1857 at Salt Lake City immigrated via wagon on the Fort Benton Trail to Alberta in 1890. He homesteaded 2.5 miles south of Cardston and did some freighting. In 1881 he married Sarah Anne Thomas who was born in October, 1857 at Lehi, Utah. They had five children born between 1882 and 1892. The family returned to the USA in 1919 after selling their property in Alberta. Mr. Hyde died in 1936 and Mrs. Hyde in 1946.

Ref: Hardwick Papers.

Hyde, Henry Ernest.

Henry Hyde was recorded as a member of the Masonic Lodge, Spitzie No. 6. Instituted before 1890.

Huggard, R.T.

Mr. Huggard who He was transferred from Winnipeg, Manitoba, was the inspector of weights and measures for the Calgary District.

Ref: Calgary, Her Industries & Resources, 1885.

Hughes, O.E.

Mr. O. E. Hughes was elected member for Electoral Division of Lorne in 1885.

Ref: 1885 Election Reports.

Humbury,

Mr. Humbury served with the NWMP as a scout in 1890.

Ref: A Centry of Memories.

Hunt, Jos E.

Jos Hunt was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1889.

Hutchings, Col.

Col. Hurchings homesteaded and later was involved in 1884 in the 44 Ranch in the Granum area in partnership with McKenzie & Mann, contractors of the C&E RR.

Ref: Granum by Rail.

Hutchison, William Gibson & Helen (Nellie)

William Hutchison, born in Netherburn, Lanarkshire, Scotland June 7, 1852, married Helen Ralston Cochrane October 27, 1883 at Glasgow, Scotland. They came to Montreal, Quebec in 1884 and then went west to Calgary in 1887 and lived in the Mission district for two years. They homsteaded on Morley Trail SW 1/4 of Sec.22-24-3-W5M, but moved to Buffalo Lake in 1885 where he was the principal in the Buffalo Lake Trading Company. William and Nellie had three children: Helen who married Clem Gardner, Eunice who married William C. Robertson, and Joe who served overseas during WW1 and died there of appendicitis. William Sr. died April 19, 1902 in Lacombe and Mrs. Hutchison then married Frank Taylor and they resided at what is now the site of Camp Kiwanis. Mrs. Taylor died October 3, 1929 at Calgary.