Barry Frank Galbraith was born March 31, 1894 in Wellington, Shropshire, England, the third of three sons of John Galbraith (1848-1930) and his wife Eliza Wilson (1861-1935). In June 1912, he left to take up a homestead in Alberta where his second cousin Ernie Kerr was already homesteading. Barry obtained land across the Pembina River from Ernie in the Cosmo district. Barry spent the winter of 1913-1914 working in Edmonton at the St. Regis Hotel and as an usher at the Empress Theatre in the evenings. That spring, he travelled back to his homestead, which he had named Wilsona after his mother’s family.

In 1914 Barry worked as a temporary teacher in the one room school at Cosmo, Alberta and in August of that year he joined the war effort. He served in the British Army as Acting Serjeant in the Indian Army Supply Column Regiment 37482, and as a Second Lieutenant in the Black Watch and the King’s African Rifles. He was stationed in France, the United Kingdom, and East Africa.

Annie “Nan” Lucy Whitehead was born October 22, 1896 in Middlesex, England. She was the first of three daughters of Walter (1872-1927) and Lucy (1870-1906) Whitehead. She and Barry married June 16, 1919 at the Chertsey Register Office and she accompanied Barry on his return to Canada in 1919. Together they had seven children.

In 1935, Barry and his cousin Bert Kerr purchased the Varsity Truck Shop near the University of Alberta and the family moved to Edmonton. They returned to the farm in 1938. In 1939, their oldest son Ian took over the farm and Barry accepted a job with the federal government as a poultry inspector, which he continued until retirement.

During retirement, Barry kept bees, gardened, served as a judge at county fairs, and helped as needed on the farm. Barry passed away in Edmonton on May 15, 1969. Nan stayed at the farm until 1971 when she moved to the village of Sangudo. She passed away on March 29, 1985.