Register entry 290 - William Scotson
Visited the Bell Farm with the Tenant-Farmer Delegates on Oct 3, 1890 - William Scotson came from Rose-lane, Mossley-hill, near Liverpool, Lancashire, England.
He left Liverpool on Sept. 4, on board the Allen Line's “Sardinian”, also with other Tenant-Farmer delegates.
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. William Scotson was one of those delegates.
In his subsequent report to the Canadian government Scotson made only cursory mention of those three Farms.
SOURCES:
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1855/4.html - p. 58
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask., and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.