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Show The Tanners invade Canada 219 With the movement of the church to the far West in 1846, work was greatly curtailed, but was not given up entirely. In 1857 President Young had a few elders called to search out Latter day Saints in Canada who had been almost forgotten for a period of years and had became inactive. A number were found and reactivated, and a few additional converts were made." It would be another forty years, however, before circumstances would arise which would set in motion Latter-day Saint activities which would make Canada so familiar to the church.' missionary * * * * In 1886 Charles Ora Card, President of the Cache Stake at who was Logan, Utah, being shadowed by federal agents as a suspect in connection with polygamous marriages, was advised by President John Taylor to find "asylum and justice" in Canada instead of going to Mexico as a large number of men with plural families were doing." Card, who had been dodging federal officials for years, reported was stepped on Columbia a number of to have swung his hat in the air when he first Canadian soil in British Columbia, and exclaimed, "In are safe.?" we His first trip to Canada was exploratory. After a long search, found most of the desirable land already taken up, they they decided on a location which later became known as Cardston, in honor of Charles O. Card. in which Card's return to Utah and his report to President Taylor, instructed to choose forty families as settlers and proceed to Canada to make settlement. After considerable searching he finally settled on the names of forty-one men, mostly from the ranks of those with plural families. Upon he was All the proposed pioneers, including Card himself, expected the church president would issue a "call" to the intended pioneers. But the President did not want this to be a requirement, but rather a volunteer pioneering venture. When the forty-one families learned they were not to receive a formal call, most of them backed out and left Card standing almost alone. 1 0 With a little urging from Franklin D. Richards, a member of the Quorum of Twelve, Card summoned all the courage he could find and assumed the leadership necessary to guide a small party to the |
