John Allan McPherson was one of the first homesteaders of Parkland County, in Alberta, having travelled there with a group of settlers who explored the unknown west. Originally travelling up to Winnipeg to work, he was eventually contracted to bring supplies to Fort Edmonton with a partner named Madill, a project expected to take ten weeks. After the travels, which took five weeks longer than planned, McPherson decided to get some land for himself, and with the help of a new partner, Alex McNabb, established a small homestead near what would later be Stony Plain and Spruce Grove.
An image of the page of "Along The Fifth" with the story can be found here and here.
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3 comments:
Out of curiosity, is this the end of the adapted article? I feel like there's still something else missing to complete the story. If it is the end of the article, then I think some more research should be done on John A McPherson, and then the continuation of his story can be added onto the article to be used for a social studies class on the first settler in Stony Plain. The article thus far has a really great beginning on McPherson's arrival to the land that he named Stony Plain, but then what happens afterward? Does he do anything to develop Stony Plain into a settlement/community?
Is there something that follows or is that all, because it feels like it just ends before the end.
I'll check to add more to it, I think I might have cut out some things that I thought were not important but I will add them.
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