HUTCHINSON, George
Visited the Bell Farm with the Tenant-Farmer Delegates on Oct 3, 1890.
George Hutchinson (1854-1939) came from Brougham Castle, Penrith, England. 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 and / or the Dominion Experimental Farm on Oct 3, 1890. George Hutchinson was one of those delegates.
He left Liverpool on 28 Aug along with five other delegates, on board the “Circassian” of the Allan Line. In his report he mentions driving around the Bell, Brassey and Dominion Experimental Farms, but they did not stop in to visit with Major and Mrs Bell due to the inclement weather.
SOURCES:
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1855/4.html - p. 40
http://canadianroots.info/canroots/index.php?route=%2Fcanroots%2Ftree%2Fcanadianroots.ged%2Findividual%2FI815%2FGeorge-Hutchinson
1891 Sessional Papers # 6, p. xxviii (Canada) - Delegates Tour - https://books.google.ca/books?id=r5w5AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PR28&lpg=RA3-PR28&dq=George+Hutchinson,Brougham+Castle,+Penrith,+England.&source=bl&ots=FIitQFWIfn&sig=ACfU3U0IBoTyckphtq1sCOm981uxQdIEMA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjm1aHxv_rrAhXVOn0KHTrMBMQ4ChDoATAAegQIAxAB#v=onepage&q=George%20Hutchinson%2CBrougham%20Castle%2C%20Penrith%2C%20England.&f=false - Bell Farm mentioned on p. 104
1891 England Wales Census - George Hutchinson - https://www.rootspoint.com/record/1891-UK-Census/George-Hutchinson-1854-Brougham-Westmorland-Brougham/c1519f95-36b1-4765-8e33-9f95bb6b86ed/
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.