Register entry 287 - Pierre-Alexandre Foursin
Visited the Bell Farm with the Tenant-Farmer Delegates on Oct 3, 1890 - Pierre-Alexandre Foursin (1852-1916) was a French politician who took a special interest in French settlement in Canada. At the request of the Canadian High Commissioner to France (Hector Fabre), he accompanied the Tenant-Farmer Delegates to Canada in the fall of 1890.
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. Although Foursin was not a formal delegate, the Canadian Government sought his presence on this tour.
As with the formal Delegates, Foursin also wrote a report on his trip. No English copy has yet been located. However, there is no mention of the Indian Head farms in the French version (p. 26-27), as the report deals almost exclusively with French settlements.
SOURCES:
https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Foursin&prev=search
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5606735x/f3 - Fousin's report in French.
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask., and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.