| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR2747 | | TITLE: | Stanley Rackham Fonds | | CREATOR: | Rackham, Stanley | | DATE RANGE: | [ca. 1993] | | EXTENT: | 0.01 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Stanley Rackham was born in London, England, on September 4, 1877. He attended Agricultural College in England, completing the course and receiving his diploma in 1898 and Life Membership in the Highland Agricultural Society and the Royal Agricultural Society of England.
In 1903, Stanley Rackham immigrated to Canada with the Barr Colonists, and acquired a homestead at the Southeast of Section 12, Township50, Range 28, West of the 3rd Meridian (SE - 12-50-28 -W3) in the Lloydminster district. His friend, Bernard Smith took up an adjoining homestead. They combined their farms, and partnered under the name "Rackham and Smith", until Bernard Smith returned to England in 1922.
Stanley Rackham was a Charter Member of the Lloydminster Agricultural Society formed in 1905; a Councilor for the R. M. Britannia in 1909; a Charter Member of the Lloydminster Co-op, serving on its board from 1914 to 1937; President of the Co-op from 1914 to 1919; a member of the Lloydminster School Board; a member of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers, the Saskatchewan Field Husbandry Association, and the Canadian Seed Growers Association; Director on the Board of the Local Discovery Well; and a frequent contributor to the Pedigreed Seed and Registered Purebred Livestock Competition in the Lloydminster Fair.
Stanley Rackham passed away in 1937. He passed his homestead land to his son Ronald.
| | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | A family member of Stanley Rackham's, Esther Perry, obtained a typed transcript of the diary from another member of the family. Esther retyped the manuscript and donated it to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1993 | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of a transcript, typed by Esther Perry, of Stanley Rackham's dairy for the years 1903- 1910. The diary describes his life on his homestead. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from website pertaining to Lloydminster's centennial: http://www.lloydminster.net/stanleyrackham.htm (Accessed Aug. 2, 2007).
Land described according to the Alberta Township System (ATS).
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