| About The Haddrells of British Columbia, Canada
Please sign in to see more. Cherry Ryan has collaborrated with Ian Haddrell to set up an extensive Haddrell family tree (see link below). Here, I have included only as many Haddrells from that tree as is necessary to show how the Haddrells in British Columbia are related to one another. Any name that was obtained from that site has a link back to it. The focus of this website is the many families with whom the Haddrells have intermarried. Currently, the most represented families are those who immigrated to British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in the early 1900s; and the Jeffrey family who homesteaded in Maidstone Saskatchewan in the 1900s and later moved to British Columbia's Fraser Valley, and those who married into the Jeffrey family.
What's new on this site
April 8, 2008
Another trip to the Vancouver Public Library. The names are not uploaded yet, but here are some highlights: Two Smiths who married each other; the first name from Ireland; a couple more names from Scotland; several more names from England and Canada; The birthplace of Catherine Scriver. Details coming soon!
February 14, 2008
My first visit to the Vancouver Public Library to browse the BC Vital Statistics microfiche Death Certificates. Names of parents and birthplaces of the deceased and parents are included in the records. Added: Gertrude Emily Smith's parents: Edward Smith and Unknown(F) Portlock; Esther Elizabeth Stratton's parents: William Stratton (b. England) and Christina McKay (b. Edinburgh, Scotland); William Morrison Stratton's son: B W Stratton; and wife: Mary Isabelle Clarke.
September 6, 2007
Automatedgenealogy.com has completed transcription of 1911 Canada census, so I did some more research there. Today, I added Frank Ivan Moore, Edward I Moore and Stanley W Moore -- family of Florence Jane Gale.
Allan Phare and family added. He is related to the other Phares in the tree, although I do not have the particulars at the moment.
September 27, 2006
Uploaded photo of CPR Land Sales Journal showing purchase of 160 acres by Charles James Gale in 1899.
September 22, 2006
I had Linda Gayle Hallstead's father and stepfather mixed up. I had her father listed as James Marshall Lamont, and thought her step-father was a Hallstead. Now I know why I couldn't find death certificates for either of them! Her father was James Marshall Hallstead. Her step-father was Samuel Lamont.
September 5, 2006
During a visit to the Glenbow museum archives in August 2006, I was directed to a book containing Birth, Death and Marriage registrations for the province of Alberta 1870-1905. Although I did not find a marriage registration for Charles Gale and Catherine Scriver, I did come across what ended up being their first child: GALE, George June 9 1898 - June 12 1898
Haddrells arrive in Canada
The first commercial orchard planted in Summerland was planted in 1887 by James
Gartrell from Ontario, Canada. In 1902, J.M. Robinson arranged financing from
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, then president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and
started the "Summerland Development Company" to entice immigrants to leave
their homes in England, promoting Summerland as a fruit ranching community.
Many buyers were also found in the Canadian prairies, where farmers were fed up
with the long, harsh Canadian winters. They were eager to leave frozen central
Canada for the 'Summerland'. Many orchards had already been planted, and were
just waiting for ranchers to take over and start making money.
The first Haddrell to arrive in BC was Charles William Haddrell in 1907. He returned to England to find a bride, and came back to Summerland in 1913 with his new wife, Gertrude Smith; his brother, Francis George Haddrell; his sister- in-law, Lillian Nell Tyler; and his young nephew, George Henry Cecil Haddrell.
Summerland grew quickly: a post office was established in 1902; the first
School District formed in 1903; a hydro-electric dam was operating in 1903;
telephone service was available by 1907; the Summerland Review newspaper
began printing weekly in 1908; the Municipal Hall was built in 1910; the
Dominion Experimental Farm was established in 1914; in 1917, the Good Roads
Association met in nearby Penticton for the purpose of improving roads for
motor-cars; Summerland's first radio station was on the air in 1925. More
history and photos of Summerland can be found at www.summerlandmuseum.org.
The Municipality of Summerland made a decision to name many of it's roads after it's residents. Many early pioneer names are included, as well as some later arrivals. The book 'The Streets of Summerland -- Origins and Locations', published in the 1980's, tells that the process has been inconsistent. Many early settlers have been left out, and the location of the streets have no relevance to the location of the families' homes, orchards or buisnesses. The book, however, has been a valuable resource to me. I have found the names of pioneers, their children and their children's spouses, as well as statements about what the idividuals did for a living and what groups they belonged to. The book is now out-of-print, so I borrowed it through the inter-library loans program.
Land Grants and Homesteads
Charles Acohk Haddrell, Douglas Cuthbert Jeffrey, Albert Waterhouse and Tom
Waterhouse each received a 160 acre Land Grant in Saskatchewan from the
Canadian government (see: Photos --> Documents). In order to qualify for a
grant, one had to be a single male over 21 (later 18), or the head of a
household, or a female who was the sole provider for her family.
The new land owner was then required to 'improve' the land in order to keep it. That usually meant clearing a minimum number of acres (15 to 50) and planting crops on 10 to 30 of those acres, and a house had to be built on the land having a minimum value of $300.00. The landowner was then required to live on the granted land for at least 6 months of the year for 3 consecutive years. Prior to 1889 it was also possible to purchase the quarter-section of land bordering the granted land. There was a $10.00 registration fee for the free land, but soldiers who served in the first World War did not have to pay the fee. They were, however, required to meet all the other conditions.
Charles James Gale purchased 160 acres from the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1899 for $3.00 per acre. He worked his land until 1914, when he moved his family to Summerland, escaping the harsh Canadian Prairie winters.
A favourite tactic of the Summerland Development Company was to take photos of Summerland to the prairies in the winter, enticing the hard-working homesteaders to relocate to the sunny orchards of the Okanagan Valley.
The Homestead of Douglas Cuthbert Jeffrey eventually grew to 3 1/2 sections, as he purchased land from disillusioned homesteaders who moved to warmer parts of the country or returned to England. This homestead is no longer in the Jeffrey name, but it is owned by one of his descendants in the Hinde line. The other homesteads listed here are no longer owned by their original families.
1 section = 1 square mile = 640 acres
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