Sam Livingston

Sam Livingston

Sam Livingston (4 February 1831 – 4 October 1897) came to Canada following an unsuccessful venture in the Californian gold rush of 1849, and eventually found his way to Jumping Pound, Alberta in 1873 where he opened a trading post. He was going to settle near the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers in 1875 but, when the North West Mounted Police arrived and established Fort Calgary, Livingston and his family moved further up the Elbow River to the current location of the Glenmore Reservoir. When the Glenmore Dam was built and the area flooded, part of the Livingstone house was preserved and now stands at Heritage Park. Sam Livingston was an important man to Alberta's history.

Sam Livingston married in 1865 and had a more settled way of life he also started a business which included trading for buffalo skins. By 1874 he had relocated his operations southward to be closer to the trade with the plains Indians and was doing business near the Roman Catholic mission, Our Lady of Peace, on the Elbow River. In the summer of 1876 Livingston moved with his family closer to Fort Calgary (Calgary), the newly established North-West Mounted Police post on the river. Here, in 1876, he began cultivation and with John Glenn was one of the first farmers in the area.

Livingston was a great innovator who brought the first examples of mechanised equipment to farming in the Calgary area. Some people call Sam Livingston "Calgary's First citizen", but George Clift King (the first man to marry in Calgary) is also given that title. In fact John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary Area, in 1873. [ [http://www.bowvalleyranche.com/pioneers.html Bow Valley Pioneers - Bow Valley Ranche Pioneers] ]

Sam Livingston died in 1897 shortly after the birth of his fourteenth child. His funeral procession was forty carriages long.

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External links

* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40361 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.bowvalleyranche.com/pioneers.html Bow Valley Ranch] - Pioneers


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