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Show The Tanners invade Canada 225 born there, but returned with their mothers to Utah. His other families all chose to remain in Utah. After his death at Lethbridge in 1927, the holdings of J. M. Tanner were closed out. were 1907, yet another Tanner family made its appearance in Alberta. Henry Smith Tanner, son of Joseph Smith and Elizabeth Haws Tanner, who was on the General Board of the Mutual Improve the to visit Canada, saw ment Association and had occasion In opportunities in the frontier and decided He succeeded in enterprise, was but too was old. of 840 purchase near interesting his father, Joesph Smith Tanner, acres present Hill which Cardston the Cochrane Ranch and located Tanner, second wife of Henry S., moved tract about 1907 or 1908 and appears to have three years. 1909. or May 6, was on Spring. Mary the newly purchased been there two in the unable to get him to come to Canada as he felt However, his father did assist in financing the Isabel Richards to avail himself of the land. cheap he to Her daughter Helen was born in of Joseph Smith Tanner's sons worked on the John Sidney, who married Orvilla Woolf at Logan his home in Hill Spring. The other boys made 15, 1908, July all seem to George Wilford, Hyrum, Leland Scott, and Arnold A number Canadian Farm. - have worked there at different times. Henry Bernard Tanner, son of Henry Smith Tanner, remembers going to Hill Spring three different summers, 1907-1909, to assist with the farm work. He says the farm produced five thousand bushels of wheat in 1909 and work was so pressing he did not get back to Utah to school until December of that year. Five thousand bushels sounds like a lot of grain, but the price was only seventy-five cents per bushel, and the crop no more than paid expenses. of or 1920, Janette Hamilton, the second wife son John her assist to Hill to moved Smith Spring Tanner, Joseph John Sidney who had lost his wife. Four of Janette's children Clarice (Mar and Iona Sarah (Jackson), Sidney, Agnes (Coombs), made Canada their home. The children of these four families tin) and most of them remained in Canada." numbered About 1919 - - twenty-seven No story to tell much of the is to introduce the intention the events; attempt has been made in the foregoing of these interesting |
