Andrew Craig Pierce, 1884-1955, known as Craig, was born in Pennsylvania, USA, and attended the Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh and Lehigh University in Bethlehem. He travelled extensively in Central America and the United States before he came to Alberta in 1909 as a surveyor with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) near Brooks. Over the following years Pierce spent several months in the Calgary area each summer, but continued his extensive travel in the western USA. In 1918 he purchased a farm near Drumheller and operated it for the remainder of his life, except for a brief residence in Spokane, Washington. He was very active in farm and business organizations and served as president of the Calgary Board of Trade in 1938. He and his wife, Margaret Adele Moore, 1882-1961, had four children, Laura Allison, 1916-1959, Henrietta Torrence "Hetty", 1918-1992, Lucy Adele, 1920-1982, and Mary Margaret, 1921-2005. For further information see "The Theory and Practice of Life Writing : A Group Biography of Adele, Craig, Laura, Henrietta, Lucy and Mary Pierce, 1915-1940" / A. Mary Murphy. -- Memorial University of Newfoundland : unpublished PhD thesis, 2003. See also Pierce : Six Prairie Lives / A. Mary Murphy. -- Calgary : Detselig, 2010.