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OBrien, Mr.
Mr. OBrien was recorded as a CPR Station Agent at Gleichen in
November, 1884.
OHagan, Robert.
Robert OHagan came to Lethbridge in 1887 to for the North West
Coal and Navigation Company. He was a train engineer on the narrow
gauge railway known as the Turkey Trail, connecting with the main
CPR line at Dunmore and to Lethbridge. He was later engineer on
companys Great Falls and Canada Railway, the St. MaryRiver Railway,
and on the railway running to Coutts and Macleod. When the CPR
took over the AR&I Co., he ran the first CPR train coming
to Lethbridge. He married Amy May Holmes, born in Ontario, who
came to Lethbridge with three small daughters in July of 1899.
Amy May died December 30, 1937 and Robert OHagan died March 16,
1947.
Ref: SAPD membership application files, Re: Florence
O. Armstrong.
OHare, Peter
Peter OHare, born at Newry, Ireland in 1853, came to Canada
in the early 1870s. He joined the NWMP as Reg. No. 198 on May
29, 1875 at Fort Macleod. He served at Fort Macleod, Wood Mountain,
Maple Creek and Regina and took his discharge from the Force on
30 October, 1891. He served as a Special Constable from 1 January,
1904 to 30 April, 1920.
Ref: SAPD membership application files, Re: Nathan
John OHare. and newspaper clippings.
Oliver, Dr.
Dr. Oliver is recorded as the first medical doctor in Medicine
Hat.
Ref: Early History of Medicine Hat Country p.
33-38.
Olin, Bill.
Bill Olin was one of the early buffalo hunters who crossed over
from Montana to the Pincher Creek area in the early 1870s. He
married and moved up to Olin Creek, a creek that bears his name,
near where it enters the North Fork. He died about 1906. Mrs.
Olin ran a small cafe in Pincher Creek and later boarded section
men in Cowley. They had three Children.
Ref: History of the Early Days of Pincher Creek
p. 4-5 and Prairie Grass to Mountain Pass, p. 596.
ONeil, J. D.
Mr. J. D. ONeil and A.W. Rowland left Stratford, Ontario and
landed in Medicine Hat, the end of the railway, in the spring
of 1883. They brought with them a carload of cattle. They trekked
west, camping in Snake Valley where the grass was plentiful but
they soon realized that the valley was infested with rattlesnakes.
They initially homesteaded at Fort Macleod and later moved on
to Aldersyde. Rowlands homestead and pre-emption was Sec.18-20-28-W4M
and ONeils land adjoined on the south.
Ref: Leaves from the Medicine Tree p. 350.
Ormiston, John.
John Ormiston was recorded as a member of the Calgary Odd Fellows
Lodge in 1886.
Owen, Bert.
Bert Owen , a rancher from Vulcan, came to NWT in 1887.
Ref: SAPD membership application files.
Owens, Jim.
Jim Owens built a one-mile race track complete with steeple
chase course in about 1886 on the flats along the Elbow River
where Elbow Drive in Calgary is now situated. In 1887 purses were
offered for the first time at Owens track.
Ref: Newspaper article written by Annie L. Gaetz.
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