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

Kauntz, Harry

Harry Kauntz, probably the first resident of Granum, was a whiskey trader that was shut down by the Mounties in 1875.

Ref: Leavings by Trail Granum by Rail.

Kavanaugh,

Mr. Kavanaugh of Archibald and Kavanaugh ran one of the first stores in Medicine Hat.

Ref: Early History of Medicine Hat Country p. 33-38.

Kaye, Sir John Lester

Sir John Kaye headed the Canadian Agriculture Coal and Colonization Co. that negotiated and purchased in 1888-89 the Canadian 76 (Powder River) ranch. Three townships of the leased land had been cancelled, but Kaye had been gradually moving cattle out to other Kaye ranches and farms. When Kaye got into financial trouble, a wagon boss, D.H. Andrews obtained financial backing and he bought the outfit outright.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree p. 455.

Keefe, Dave

In the summer of 1884 the CPR erected a section house at Siding 29, Dave Keefe, engineer for a work train, started a hotel. Also that year Hon. Thomas White, Minister of the Interior, emerged victorious in the competition for the rights to the hot springs which became national property. Dave Keefe built a raft at a point opposite the Hot Springs for the use by mainly local people. From the river the route lay across the marsh and it is reported that Keefe did a profitable business by renting rubber boots for that crossing.

Ref: Banff Crag & Canyon, p. 7, 1935.

Kelly, Jas B.

Jas Kelly was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1887.

Kemp, W.

Mr. Kemp settled at Red Deer Crossing when it was reported some 30 people were residents there.

Ref: The Homesteads That Nuttured a City.

Kennedy, James

James Kennedy, who had been a land surveyor, came from Montana with a cattle drive the Cochrane Ranch in 1881. He initially managed the A.P. Patricks cattle and later in the 1880s he started the Dog Pound Creek Ranch, later called the Botterel Ranch. In 1890, he Kennedy moved to Sec.2-29-4-W5M, which he later sold in 1898 and returned to the US.

Ref: Big Hill Country, p. 15 & Big Hill Country, p.89

Kennedy, George Allen, M.D.

Dr. Kennedy was a charter member of the Masonic Alberta Lodge No. 3, 1886, at Fort Macleod.

King, Augustus

Augustus King, a rancher, came to the NWT on May7, 1887.

Ref: SAPD membership application files.

King, H.L.

Mr. H. King arrived in Calgary in 1884.

Ref: SAPD membership application files, Re: Edith L. Trotter.

King, Walter

Walter King and William Lowther were hired by the Northwest Coal and Navigation Company to bring a portable sawmill via Fort Benton to Fort Macleod and then to set it up in the Porcupine Hills in 1882. Sir Alexander Galt and his son, Elliot Torrance Galt, shareholders and managers of NC&NCo., gave orders that the sawmill was to supply all lumber required to construct buildings and to develope their underground coal mine at Coalbanks. Once the mine was in operation their energy was turned to building a sternwheeler boat to be used to ship coal down the Oldman River to Medicine Hat.

Ref: Nineteenth Century Lethbridge, p. 22.

Kinisten, W. H.

Mr. W. Kinisten was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1885.

Kipp, Joe

Fort Whoop-up in the 1870s was a gathering point for whiskey traders and an outpost with ties to Fort Benton in Montana. Joe Kipp, a son of an early Missouri trader, built Fort Stand-Off with Charles Thomas, located at the confluence of the Belly and Waterton Rivers. Fort Kipp built at the confluence of the Belly and Oldman Rivers was not fortified. In 1874, the NWMP under Col. James Macleod, built Fort Macleod and put an end to the whiskey traders.

Ref: Nineteenth Century Lethbridge, p. 11-12.

Kirby, Eugene G.

Mr. Kirby was employed by the G.C. King Emporiun before 1885.

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

Kirby, William John

William Kirby arrived in Calgary in 1886. His son was the late Justice W.J.C. Kirby.

Ref: SAPD membership application files.

Kirk, Harry E.

Harry Kirk was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows Lodge in 1888.

Kirkaldy, Frank

Frank Kirkaldy first worked on the Oxley ranch, and then in 1888 and 1889 he was employed by Samson and Harford. He was an exceptionally good hand. He returned to Montana, married and settled down on the Assiniboine Reservation.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree p. 20.

Kirstein, Otto

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kirstein Sr. and son Paul came from Pozen, Poland in 1881. They first farmed at Regina, then moved to Gleichen and developed a homestead in 1884. Their son married Mrs. Mary Fafferty. They lived with his parents until his father, Otto, bought land across the road, leaving Paul the homestead. In 1932 Paul moved to Ponoka for three years, and then on to Chedderville where he retired in 1944 and moved to Calgary. He died in 1954 and his wife in 1964. They had four sons and twin girls.

Ref: The Gleichen Call p. 73.

Knox, Charles G.

Charles Knox, born in Newcastle, Ireland, came to west in 1883 to become a ranch hand on the Mount Head HL Ranch, which was owned by a family friend, Lord Castleton. In 1886, the HL was taken over by the Bar U, and Charles Knox started his own ranch. In 1888 he made the first shipment of live Albertan cattle to England. He left High River in 1899 to become the first brand inspector for the NWT in Winnipeg. In 1901 he resigned to enter the livestock commission business and a railway construction business in Winnipeg. He married to Ethel Fraser who died in 1936, Charles lived to be almost 92 years. They had two children, Cecil and Eileen.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree.

Kountz, Henry

Henry Kountz was a frontiersman, who came to Albert in 1871. He freighted with his own outfit between Fort Benton and the Blackfoot Reserve. With stakes high and luck against him he lost his outfit in a poker game. He decided to start afresh at the Leavings where he built a log house and corrals on an open flat near the winding creek. In 1882, he sold his squatters rights to the Oxley Ranching Co. and worked there for a while, then moved west where he located on a coal seam. Nothing came of this venture, but a nearby creek was named Kountz Creek.

Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree p. 430.