James l rhubarb biography of alberta

Wagstaff, Charles

Charles Wagstaff was born in England in 1863 and came to Canada at the age of eighteen. He worked on the construction of the C.P.R. in 1883, and was married to Sarah Cotton in Medicine Hat in 1889.

They had three daughters. Mr. Wagstaff was an engineer for forty years.

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He died at Medicine Hat.

Waines, Edward

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Edward Waines was born at St. Catherines, Ontario in 1861 and died at Calgary, Alberta in 1948. He came to Calgary in 1886, and settled in the Springbank area, sixteen miles west of Calgary. He was one of the first breeders of shorthorn cattle in the Northwest Territories.

Edward married Jeanette Beveridge, daughter of another Calgary pioneer family.

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She died in 1916, leaving four young children which he raised alone. In 1910, Edward retired from ranching, and moved into Calgary where he resided until his death at age 86. Edward Waines rode with the Southern Alberta Pionee