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

Jack, William

Jack William, along with his wife, Mrs. M. A. Jack, arrived in Banff from Toronto, on March 3, 1890. Being a shoemaker Jack built a combined house and shoestore in Banff. He died in 1902. Mrs. Jack opened a dressmaking shop, and in 1906 she built a small home on Muskrat Street.

Ref: The Banff Crag & Canyon, 1935.

Jackson, George

Mr George Jackson came west in 1886 and worked with his brother William until 1894. He also worked for John Ware as well as Mr. Quirk before going to Montana to work on a sheep ranch. He died at Millarville in 1952.

Ref: Our Foothills Bragg Creek, Kew and Millarville.

Jacques, F. B.

Mr. F. B. Jacques was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1889.

Jamieson, William (Buddy) Daniel

William. Daniel was born in Wisconsin in 1874. In 1880 his parents moved to Calgary where Buddy helped his mother look after six younger siblings. In 1885 he went to Pincher Creek and worked on the CPR railway construction in the Pass. In 1890 he homesteaded SE 1/4 of Sec.1-3-30-W4M. He later bought a quarter and acquired a small herd of cattle. He joined the Army in 1914 and on his return purchased the west adjoining half section. His sister and her four children came to live with him at the ranch. Buddy later experienced poor health and spent much time in Hospitals in Pincher Creek and Calgary. He died in 1956.

Ref: Prairie Grass to Mountain Pass.

Jamieson, Alexander

Alexander Jamieson, born at Colbourg, Ontario, came to Calgary in 1890. He was a carpenter and bricklayer and worked on the second CPR station in Calgary. In 1891 he homesteaded south of Shepard and also worked as a surveyors assistant in southern Alberta and BC. Alexander married Lucy Anne Potts, who was from the Morley area, in 1907. They moved to Morley in 1911. The Jamiesons had two sons and one daughter. Alexander died in 1936 and his wife Lucy died in 1949.

Ref: Big Hill Country, p. 110.

Jamison, Robert & Mary

Robert Jamison was born in Ireland and immigrated to Ontario as a young man. In 1879 he married Mary Catherine Henderson in Rosemont, Ontario. In 1884, following the birth of their first three children, they travelled west for three months, initially going to Vancouver and then returning to the DeWinton Area. There they took homesteaded NW 1/4 of Sec.9-22-1-W5M, which was CPR grant #567. The family totalled eleven children over the years. When the farm was sold to Dr. Lindsay in 1912, Mrs. Jamison lived in Calgary running a boarding house for young school girls. She died in 1929.

Ref: Sodbusters to Subdivisions.

Jarret, John

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

Jarrett, Fred

Fred Jarrett arrived in Southern Alberta in 1885.

Ref: SAPD membership application files, Re; Miss E. D. Ferguson.

Jarrett, Steve N

Steve Jarrett, Calgary Fire from 1886-1887 was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1885.

Jarrett, Walter

Walter Jarett was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1889.

Jennings, Robert Osborne

Robert Jennings, a contractor, joined the Medicine Hat Masonic Lodge No. 2, in July, 1889 at the age of 42.

Jensen, Christian F.

Christian Jensen, born in Denmark in 1838, homesteaded Sec.16-2-25-W4M at Aetna located south of Cardston, in 1889. Having married Johanna Hansen in Utah they had eight children, the last being born they came to Aetna in 1889. Mr. Jensen operated a blacksmith shop, organized the School District in 1891-1892, and was appointed Justice of the Peace about 1895. He served until his death in 1910. Mrs. Jensen died in 1934 at Aetna.

Ref: Hardwick Papers.

Jepson, John P.

John Jepson homesteaded on the Pekisko Creek above the D Ranch in the 1880s.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree p. 120.

Jewett, J.W.

Mr. J. W. Jowett was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and came to Winnipeg in 1882, He joined the staff of the Indian Department there and was first sent to Regina and then to the Blood Agency near Fort Macleod, where he served until 1885, when he was posted to the Blackfoot Agency at Gleichen. His total service here was 33 years. He kept meteorological records of the Gleichen District for many years. He died in 1918.

Ref: The Gleichen Call p. 62.

Johannson, Gunnar & Thorkjarg

Mr. Johannson came to Calgary in 1889 from Argyle, Manitoba. He married Thorkjarg Gestdottir from Iceland, at Calgary in 1889. In 1892 Mr. And Mrs Johannson homesteaded east of the Markerville post office. They had five children in their family. Gunnar died in 1927, and Mrs. Johannson died in 1940.

Ref: The Gleichen Call.

Johnson, Captain

Captain Johnson who was a captain in the NWMP, in 1874, is recorded a settler in the Medicine Hat area in the 1880s.

Ref: Early History of Medicine Hat Country p. 70.

Johnson, Edward & Mandella

Edward Johnson, born in Hampshire, England, on October 22, 1858, left home at age 14 and worked as a horse trainer in England and Chile, and in Victoria, BC. He worked for the Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch and the J.W. Ranch. He came through the Crowsnest Pass in 1882 riding for Oscar Rush. They trailed 150 horses and broke them at Fort Macleod. He moved to Sheep Creek in 1887 where he formed a partnership with Charlie Priddis. He married Mandella Midthorne in 1888. and they had eight children. In 1903 he moved from Priddis and was involved with hotels, and later he lived west of Okotoks. In 1931 he moved to Midnapore where he died in 1949.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree p. 389.

Johnson, Herbert S.

Herbert Johnson, the father of Steve Johnson, arrived in Calgary May, 1887.

Ref: SAPD membership application files.

Johnson, Joe

In 1884, Joe Johnson, a dignified, well educated Southerner and very capable cowman, got a winter job with the Bar-U, hauling out logs with a bull team of six bulls. During the fall of 1884 he left the Bar-U wagon and become foreman of the Oxley. He ran the Oxley wagon the summer of 1885 and that winter leased and ran the hotel in High River. Later he went to participate in the spoils of the Yukon Gold Rush where he was rumored to be the notorious Soapy Smith who was killed in a gunfight on the Skagway Alaska, wharf.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree p. 257.

Johnson, William

William Johnson first came to Alberta in the early 1870s as a scout for the construction of the telegraph line through the Kicking Horse Pass. He came west the second time with the CPR railway in 1883. Raised in Lancaster, England, he first settled in Minnesota and later moved to Lethbridge in 1885. He had six children by his first wife. and in 1908 he married Mary Saunders. From this union were born four children. In 1888 he purchased a homestead, NE 1/4 of Sec.26-8-22-W4M. He also bought the coal rights on NE 1/4 of Sec.25-8-22-W4M, in 1902.

Ref: The Bend -West Lethbridge.

Johnson, (Liver Eating )

Mr. Johnson and a fellow free trader Akers, built the second fort on High River, a year or two after Fort Spitzee (1869-1870). It was located about two miles downstream from the Medicine Tree. He participated in some Indian wars in the US at the mouth of the Musselshell River. It was because some liver stuck on his dagger that some thought he had eaten an Indians liver. He died at the National Soldiers Home near Los Angeles in 1900.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree.

Jones, Jonas

Jonas Jones was one of the original owners, along with Peter Briggs and Billie Humphrey, of North Fork Ranching. They sold out to A.B.Few in 1886.

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

Johnstone, James

James Johnstone and his wife came to Cochrane from California in 1884. They were both born in the Lake Simcoe, Ontario area. They had a store with a post office in Cochrane for many years. In 1886 they purchased the SE 1/4 of Sec.12-28-4-W5M from James Thompson. They had a family of four daughters, they sold their land in 1903 and returned to California.

Ref: Big Hill Country.

Johnston, John

John Johnstone, from Kingston Ontario, joined the NWMP in 1873 and came came with Col. Macleod and Col. Steele to Ft. Macleod in 1874. His NWMP regimental number was 31. He. He eventually left the police force and bought 160 acres on the South Fork. His fiance came from Ontario to Lethbridge where they married and had six children. In 1911 they moved to Coleman and started a boarding house. Mrs. Johnston died in 1924 and John in 1933.

Ref: Prairie Grass to Mountain Pass p. 409.

Johnston, Jos

Jos Johnston was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1886.

Jordan, S.N.

Mr. S. N. Johnston was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1889.

Jukes, Augustus Dr.

Dr. Jukes was an early surgeon with the NWMP from 1882 to 1885. He attended the execution of Louis Riel on November 16th, 1885 at Police Barracks in Regina.

Ref: Fort Macleod Gazzette, May 7, 2003.