| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Frederick St. Clair Farran was born March 5, 1876 in Bombay, India. He was the son of Sir Charles Frederick and Ethel Kate (Simmonds) Farran. A civil engineer, Fred was in charge of the construction of the Lethbridge High Level Bridge, also known as the Lethbridge Viaduct, which was built for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and constructed in 1908 and 1909 over the Old Man River. Fred was then in charge of the concrete pier and foundation work of the High Level Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta.
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| GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from The CP Rail High Level Bridge at Lethbridge, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 385.312 J641, from the Families In British India Society (FIBIS), http://www.fibis.org/, from the 1901 Census of England and Wales, http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, accessed April 24, 2006, and from the records.
The images can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.16,230, A.16,231 and A.16,246 through A.16,272. One image can be located in the B (Brown) file under the number B.3328.
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