Register Entry 289 - George Brown
Visited the Bell Farm with the Tenant-Farmer Delegates on Oct 3, 1890 - George Brown came from Watten Mains, Caithness, Scotland.
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. George Brown was one of those delegates.
Although neither the times of his travels nor the names of his ships are documented in his report, he did provide more coverage on the Bell Farm operations than some of his colleagues. Brown did say he thought the Farm was too big for one man to operate efficiently, which suggests that the number of employees helping Major Bell had decreased considerably over the years. Unfortunately that number is not provided in Brown's report.
SOURCES:
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1854/3.html - p. 33
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask., and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.