Register entry 050 - Joseph Grose Colmer

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Visited the Bell Farm on Aug. 19, 1884 with the British Association, and again in 1894 - Joseph Grose Colmer (1856-1937) was a career civil servant and served as the Secretary to the Canadian High Commissioner (Charles Tupper) in London, England in 1884. In 1897 he was appointed Commissioner for Oaths in Yukon Territory.

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SOURCES:

• LAC = Library and Archives Canada

• 1884 Book Reference

• Colmer pg 217 http://archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsworki00dawsgoog#page/n236/mode/2up

• http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=489604 "Across the Candain Praries" by Joseph Grose Colmer 1856-1937 – trip taken in 1894.

• https://archive.org/stream/cihm_03389#page/n41/mode/2up visit

• https://archive.org/stream/cihm_08041#page/n39/mode/2up photo

• LAC photo

• Winnipeg Free Press - Oct 16 1894

• Winnipeg Free Press - Sept 10 1894

• Winnipeg Free Press - Sept 11, 1894

RESEARCH BY:

Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask. and Doreen Willerth, Indian Head, Sask.

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