SIMMONS, Henry - A British Tenant-Farmer delegate
Visited the Bell Farm with the Tenant-Farmer Delegates on Oct 3, 1890.
Henry Simmons came from Bearwood Farm, Wokingham, 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. Henry Simmons was one of those delegates.
In his report to the Canadian Government, Simmons stated that he was unable to visit the Bell Farm due to the heavy downpour that day and opted to write from what he could see and heard from others. Simmons's report provides the best account of the storm and how it affected those travelling with him.
He left Liverpool on 4 Sept with three fellow Delegates on board the “Sardinian” of the Allan Line.