PITT, Robert - British Tenant-Farmer
Visited the Bell Farm with the Tenant-Farmer Delegates on Oct 3, 1890.
Robert Pitt came from Cricket Court, Ilminster, 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, Brassey Farm and / or the Dominion Experimental Farm on Oct 3, 1890. Robert Pitt was one of those delegates.
He did not comment on the Bell Farm in his report; possibly he was among the group that was caught in a heavy downpour that day and opted not to visit Major and Mrs. Bell after touring the Experimental Farm.
Pitt presumably left Liverpool on 4 Sept, and returned on 6 Nov. The names of the ships he travelled on were not recorded.