Register entry 286 - John Speir
Visited the Bell Farm on 3 Oct. 1890. - John Speir, an agricultural authority and founder of milk-recording in Scotland, visited the Bell Farm as a member of the 1890 Tenant-Farmer delegation. His farm in Scotland was called "Newton Farm".
In 1890 the Canadian government invited a dozen farmers from Great Britain to visit Canadian farms in order to report on agriculture and the prospects of immigration. The Tenant-Farmer delegates spent the autumn of 1890 travelling from Eastern Canada to the BC Coast with a stopover at the Bell Farm, Brassey Farm and / or the Dominion Experimental Farm on Oct 3, 1890. However, his report included only cursory mention of those Farms at Indian Head.
SOURCES:
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1854/3.html
http://archive.org/stream/cihm_58480#page/n5/mode/2up
Photo: http://archive.org/stream/canasseethscot#page/n31/mode/2up
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924002975443#page/n3/mode/2up
Speir 1908.jpg "Lethbridge Herald": Sept 9, 1908
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19660325&id=JIBAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1aMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6417,4518037
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fEZAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=woQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3036,564216&dq=john+speir&hl=en
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=ST18930916.2.24.7
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wbNXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yvMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6270,1983232&dq=john+speir&hl=en
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask., and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.