Register entry 291 - Major Stevenson
Visited the Bell Farm with the Tenant-Farmer Delegates on Oct 3, 1890 - Major Stevenson came from Knockbrach, Goshaden; Londonderry, Ireland.
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. Major Stevenson was one of those delegates.
He left Ireland on 5 Sept, sailing on the Royal Mail Steamer “Sarnia” of the Dominion Line.
After the trip he compiled a report for the Canadian Government that included references to the Bell and Brassey Farms at Indian Head. His comments are short but throw some insight into the region's farming operations in the early 1890s.
SOURCES:
https://archive.org/details/cihm_58479/page/n19 - p. 28
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask., and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.