| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1186 | | TITLE: | Hugh Macintyre fonds | | CREATOR: | Macintyre, Hugh | | DATE RANGE: | 1912 | | EXTENT: | 0.02 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Hugh Macintyre, along with Donald Campbell, Thomas McNicol and Alexander Morrison, from Pipestone, Manitoba, traveled by wagon along the Edson-Grande Prairie trail in the spring of 1912 in search of homesteads. They each entered a quarter section of Section 22, Township 78, Range 6, West of the 6th Meridian (22-78-6-W6). However, instead of homesteading, these men were advance men for J.D. McArthur’s Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway, and the lands were subsequently abandoned, and the section was then purchased by the Railway and became the Spirit River, Alberta townsite. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Mrs. R.E. (Joyce) McRory, J.D. Macintyre and Mrs. C.B. Beam, descendents of Hugh Macintyre, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1982. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of a diary tracing Hugh Macintyre’s journey from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Edson, Alberta and primarily from Edson to the Spirit River Settlement, Alberta, near Dunvegan, Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is from the records. The location is represented according to the Alberta Township Survey (ATS) system.
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