DEMPSTER, William Henry - Welsh Tenant Farmer
William Henry Dempster (North Wales) and John Roberts (South Wales) were two of the Welsh tenant-farmer delegates that visited the Bell Farm on Sept. 19, 1893; but they didn't sign the Register.
They left England on Aug. 24th, and return in mid November, 1893, and went across Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
Edward Philip Leacock, on behalf of the Canadian government, acted as the Delegates’ guide during their time in the Northwest.
Most of the delegates published their reports and promoted the Canadian North West back home. Dempster and Roberts saw their reports published by the Canadian government in the same volume, dated Feb. 1894. Dempster's report was 15 pages long; Roberts' was double that.
SOURCES:
Welsh Tenant-Farmers Reports, 1894, by Roberts and Dempster - https://archive.org/stream/albertatest_01394#mode/2up - p. 37-38 - refers to Brassey and Experimental Farms, but not the Bell Farm; likewise, p. 41 deals with the return trip from Calgary to Brandon, without any mention of the Bell Farm, which was discussed in Roberts' report.
"Evening Express" (Wales) Dec. 4, 1893 - W.H. Dempster photo source and article/ Resources of Canada
1894 Sessional Papers for the Department of the Interior: https://books.google.ca/books?id=rCZOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA23&lpg=RA4-PA23&dq=william+henry+Dempster,+wales,+tenant+farmer,+1893&source=bl&ots=K9FI9zDhhA&sig=ACfU3U068bNs2dV9GG-AU0Yuw9OPbeVZlA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw38y1wPHrAhXWi54KHYopB1QQ6AEwB3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=william%20henry%20Dempster%2C%20wales%2C%20tenant%20farmer%2C%201893&f=false
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.