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Butchart, Elwood
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Elwood A. Butchart was born in Ontario in 1897. In 1904, he and his family traveled to Alberta, and settled in Edmonton. In 1913, Elwood worked as a pageboy for the Alberta legislature. From 1916 -- 1919, he served with the Western University Battalion. He played semi-professional baseball before he enrolled in engineering at the University of Alberta in 1919. In 1920, Elwood worked as a surveyor for the Ingenika Gold Company in northern Alberta. In 1923, he joined Jasper Park Lodge as the first superintendent of Transportation. Elwood left Alberta in the late 1920's for B.C. Elwood died in Vancouver in 1983.
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Provincial Archives of Alberta