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226 John Tanner and His Family families. More will be written about the participants in other sections of the volume. It is the author's opinion that no section of the West produced so many Tanners of note as did Alberta in the region of Lethbridge and Cardston. Chapter Eighteen - Notes -John Taylor, third president of the church, was converted in Toronto. Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. I, pp. 14-15. 2Melvin S. Tagg et al., History of the Church ill Canada, Chapter 1. Jenson 3Ibid. 4Ibid. 5Ibid. GIbid., chapter 2. 7Ibid., chapter 3. 8Ibid. 9Ibid. l0Ibid., p. 28 11 Ibid., chapter 3. 12Jesse Will Knight, The lesse Knight Family: (Salt Lake City. 1940). chapter 10. His Forbearers and Family i.3Ibid. 14Ibid. 15Ibid. 16Ibid. 17James Henry Tanner, "Excerpts from the life of James Henry Tanner." Origi­ nal, E. Pingree Tanner, Magrath, Alberta; copy author. See also Hugh B. Brown, "President N. Eldon Tanner, a Man of Integrity," Ensign, vol. 2 (November, 1972), pp. 12-19. 18Brown, "N. Eldon Tanner," Ensign, vol. 2 (November, 1972). 19Annie Clark Tanner, A Mormon Mother, An Autobiography, Salt Lake City, 1969), p. 163. Chapter 11, "The Canadian Farm," is revealing. 20Papers from E. Pingree Tanner Jr., in possession of author. 21Tanner, A Mormon Mother, =nse., pp. 149-151. p. 151. 23Ibid. 24Henry Bernard Tanner of Salt Lake says it was 3,500 acres. 25Interviews with Nettie DuPont and Henry Bernard Tanner, both of Salt Lake City.