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James Hadwen Galloway, 1861-1941, was born in Carlisle, Ontario and came to Alberta in 1883, first to Red Deer, and later to Calgary. He was employed at Union Cemetery for about 30 years. He and his wife Margaret McKee, 1859-1930, had eleven children, Francis Hadwen, 1885-1964, Jennie May, 1886-1958, Maggie Gertrude, 1887-1971, William Clarence, 1888-1920, Leonard, 1890-1890, Rupert, 1891-1891, Ruby Josephine (Cunningham), 1892-1941, Howard Elmer, 1893-1918, Victor Marshall, 1894-1916, Horace, 1897-1897, and Wilfred James, 1901-1960. Ruby married James Cunningham. Both Howard and Victor served in Calgary units in the First World War - Howard with the 31st battalion and Victor with the 50th battalion, then the 10th battalion - and were killed in France. James Cunningham served with the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force.

Brothers William, Thomas and Alexander Mackenzie moved from Manitoba to Alberta in 1907. Alex settled in Bowden, Alberta and his brothers raised horses near Bassano and Countess, Alberta. Billy also worked as a road and railway contractor in the district before his death at a young age. Tom later raised Galloway cattle before his retirement to Bassano, and later Calgary. The Mackenzie brothers had one sister Elsie (Scow), who also retired in Calgary after living for many years in Los Angeles.

Ben Hertzberg worked as manager on the Bearspaw Ranch, part of Eric Harvie's Glenbow Ranches just west of Calgary, Alberta, during the 1950s and 1960s. His children attended the Bearspaw School in the district. He and his wife had at least one child Karen (Duff).

William Wormsley Nettleton, worked for Birks Jewellers in Calgary, Alberta. He and his wife, Jessie Alexandra Herriot, had one daughter, Jean Herriot Nettleton, 1923-2014. Jean graduated from the University of Alberta in 1946 and worked as a pharmacist at various drugstores in Calgary. She was a passionate photographer, hiker, golfer and traveler with her companion of over 50 years, John McLaren.

Ralph Clifton Coppock, 1874-1943, was born in Kansas, USA, where he ran a dairy and feedlot operation as a young man. He married in 1902 and had four children, Ralph, Kenneth, Dorothy (Bugge) and Gerald. In 1912 he moved to High River, Alberta and bought a ranch 30 km west of town. He sold this ranch in 1918 and in 1920 leased land at Madden, west of Crossfield. He sold his stock and moved to California in 1929, but returned to Alberta in 1931 and bought the Merino Ranch near Morley. It had originally been part of the Cochrane Ranche. When he died his son, Kenneth, took over operations until 1946 when the land was sold to the Department of Indian Affairs. Kenneth, 1904-1979, started Canadian Cattlemen magazine in 1938 and was the first editor. He sold the magazine in 1953. He was secretary of the Western Stock Growers' Association for many years. He founded Kenway Saddle and Leather Company in Calgary in 1949, and ran it until retiring to California ca. 1967. Kenway Saddle bought out the Visalia Stock Saddle Company of California in 1958. Kenneth Coppock was married to Elyse Gertrude Preston, 1912-1991, and they had two children, Allan J., 1948-2013, and Carolyn (Relyea). For further information see "This Cattleman...the founder of Canadian Cattlemen" in Canadian Cattlemen. -- vol. 26, no.6 (June 1963), p. 3, 8, 52-55.

James Basil Gladstone, 1887-1971, was born at Mountain Mill, Alberta. He was educated at St. Paul's Anglican Residential School on the Blood reserve near Cardston, and the Calgary Industrial School. In 1911 he married Janie Healy, 1893-1977, a Blood, and they had six children, Lucy, Fred, Nora, Horace, Doreen and Pauline. Although not born a Treaty Indian, he was granted full Indian status in 1920 after the Blood Band petitioned on his behalf. He farmed on the Blood reserve. He was a founder of the Indian Association of Alberta, and served as president for seven years. In 1958 he was appointed to the Senate, and sat in the upper house until his retirement in 1971. As senator he co-chaired the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs. Nora Gladstone, 1920- , represented Canadian native peoples at the 1937 Coronation of George VI in London. She later trained and worked as a nurse. Fred Gladstone, 1918-2010, a well-known rodeo cowboy, took over the home farm. Horace Gladstone, 1922- , became an official with Indian Affairs in Lethbridge. Pauline Gladstone, 1929- , married Hugh Dempsey. For more details see The Gentle Persuader : A Biography of James Gladstone, Indian Senator / Hugh A. Dempsey. - Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books, 1986.

John Douglas Moodie, 1848-1947, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lived in Ottawa and Rapid City, South Dakota, USA before joining the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1884. He served in the Riel Rebellion and was then stationed in Alberta: Calgary, 1886-1887, Medicine Hat, 1887-1888, Lethbridge, 1888-1889; and in Saskatchewan: Maple Creek, 1889-1891, North Battleford, 1891-1895, and Maple Creek again in 1899. He fought in the South African War, and then returned to the NWMP serving in Dawson, Yukon, 1903-1906; the Hudson Bay area, 1906-1909; Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut; and Churchill, Manitoba. He retired to Maple Creek in 1915 and moved to Duncan, British Columbia in 1933. In 1943 he moved to Calgary. He married Geraldine Fitzgibbons, 1853-1945, and they had five children, Douglas Gerald, Allan Dunbar, Mrs. Simpkin, Charles Douglas, 1888-?, and Alex McAuley. Geraldine operated photo studios in North Battleford and Maple Creek and took photos of many of the places the family lived over the years. For further information see Brock Silversides' article, "Moodie, Through a Woman's Eye" in Epic. - vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1991), p. 26-31; Donny White's article "In Search of Geraldine Moodie : A Project in Progress" in Imaging the Arctic / edited by J.C. H. King and Henrietta Lidchi. -- Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : UBC Press, 1998, p. 88-97; In Search of Geraldine Moodie / Donny White. -- Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center, 1998; and Donny White's article "Geraldine Moodie, Pioneer of Photography" in Canadian Cowboy Country, vol. 10, no. 4 (Dec. 2006/Jan. 2007), p. 30-33.

Sidney Brook, 1871-1957, was born in Brighton, England. He came to Canada in 1891 and settled for several years near Morden, Manitoba. In 1907 he married Christena Isabelle McFadden, 1886-1966, of Manitou, Manitoba. They had seven children, Gordon S., 1908-?, Arnott, 1910-1917, Lorne V., [ca. 1912]- , Glen L., [ca. 1914 or 1915]- , Alice May (Carmichael), 1916- , Mabel (Lewis), 1920- , and Roy Eustace, 1924- . The Brooks moved to Alberta in 1910 and farmed at Craigmyle. Sidney served during the First World War and was wounded in France. The Brooks retired from farming in 1939 and moved into Craigmyle, where Sidney worked as the Alberta Treasury Branch agent for 15 years. In 1963 Isabelle moved into Calgary.

Alfred Ernest Cross, 1861-1932, was born in Montreal and came to Alberta in 1884. The following year he started the A7 Ranche west of Nanton, Alberta. He founded the Calgary Brewing and Malting Company in 1892, and was president until his death. He served on the North-West Assembly from 1899 to1902. He was a founding member of the Western Stock Growers' Association, Calgary Board of Trade and the Ranchmen's Club (for which he served as president, 1906-1908 and 1911-1912), and was one of the "Big Four" who founded the Calgary Stampede. He was also instrumental in establishing Alberta's petroleum industry. He started Calgary Petroleum Products in 1912, and was a director of Canadian Western Natural Gas. In 1964 A. E. Cross School in Calgary was named in his honour and in 2007 he was inducted into the Calgary Business Hall of Fame. In 1971 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada designated Cross as a National Historic Person. In 1899 he married Helen Rothney Macleod, 1878-1959, daughter of renowned North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) Commissioner James F. Macleod. The Crosses had seven children, five of whom survived: James Braehead Cross, 1903-1990, Mary (Dover), 1905-1994, Margaret "Marmo" (Shakespeare), 1912-1979, Alexander R. "Sandy" Cross, 1914-2003, and John M. Cross, 1916-1991. Two died in infancy: Helen Macleod, 1900-1904, and Selkirk Macleod, 1901-1904. Helen was very active in the Calgary Diocese Women's Auxiliary (Anglican church) and the Calgary General Hospital Ladies Aid. J.B. Cross succeeded his father as president of the Calgary Brewing and Malting Company in 1932, and also managed the A7 Ranche from 1932 to 1945. Sandy Cross was a well-known breeder of Galloway and Shorthorn cattle on Rothney Farm, south of Calgary. For further biographical information about the family, see Braehead : Three Founding Families in Nineteenth Century Canada / Sherrill MacLaren. -- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1986; Henry Klassen's article, "Entrepreneurship in the Canadian West : The Enterprises of A.E. Cross, 1886-1920" in Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, (August 1991), p. 313-333; and Gayle Thrift's article, "This is our War, Too: Mary Dover, Commandant of the Canadian Women's Army Corps", in Alberta History, vol. 59, no. 3, (summer 2011), p. 2-12.

William McCartney Davidson, 1872-1942, was born in Ontario. He began his long journalistic career in Toronto in 1894, and worked for several Ontario newspapers before buying the Albertan and moving to Calgary, Alberta in 1902. He published the Albertan until 1926 when he sold it to George M. Bell. He was a Calgary school trustee (1915-1918) and a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Calgary, 1917-1925. He married twice, first in 1899 to Christine Robertson, who died in 1904. They had three children, William, James and Marion (Martin). In 1913 he married Ethel Heydon, also a journalist. Ethel, ?-1969, was born in Ontario. She worked for an Ontario newspaper and briefly for the Medicine Hat newspaper before joining the Albertan staff in 1910. She was city hall reporter in the teens, and a founding member of the Calgary branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club. For further information see Jim Bradley's article, "Alberta West : A Pioneer Journalist", in Alberta History, vol. 57, no.3 (summer 2009), p. 10-14. The Davidsons moved to Victoria in 1930. From there William wrote an editorial-page column for the Albertan, 1938-1942 - see Jim Bradley's article, "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow : The Observations of W. M. Davidson", in Alberta History, vol. 62, no. 1, (winter 2014), p. 2-8.