Robert Turner biography
biographical note
Turner, Robert
Robert and his brother James, joined their cousin, John A. Turner, at Calgary, Alberta in 1886. Robert was born in Scotland in 1861 and died in 1951 at Vancouver, B.C. In 1888 at Montreal, Quebec he married Catherine (Kate) Gardiner Dawson, who was born in 1861 in Scotland and died in 1963 at Vancouver, B.C. They had one child. Robert homesteaded the SE 1/4 10-21-3-W5th. He also had a number of other quarter sections in the same area. He raised Clydesdale horses, Shorthorn cattle and Sheep. He was a Gazetted Captain of the 15th Light Horse, in 1905.
The cited information was sourced from Website / URL published by Southern Alberta Pioneers And Their Descendants <http://www.pioneersalberta.org/profiles/t.html> The author/originator was Southern Alberta Pioneers And Their Descendants.Robert and his brother James, joined their cousin, John A. Turner, at Calgary, Alberta in 1886. Robert was born in Scotland in 1861 and died in 1951 at Vancouver, B.C. In 1888 at Montreal, Quebec he married Catherine (Kate) Gardiner Dawson, who was born in 1861 in Scotland and died in 1963 at Vancouver, B.C. They had one child. Robert homesteaded the SE 1/4 10-21-3-W5th. He also had a number of other quarter sections in the same area. He raised Clydesdale horses, Shorthorn cattle and Sheep. He was a Gazetted Captain of the 15th Light Horse, in 1905.
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