P. Turner Bone, Pioneer Here, Dies
Peter Turner Bone, 86, prominent Calgary, resident, died Tuesday shortly after 6 p.m. in the General hospital following an illness of several months.
Mr. Turner Bone was the fifth person to take up residence here in the days when Calgary consisted of a trading post and a few shacks and tents along the Bow River. He spent the winter of 1883-1884 in a tent.
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
A civil engineer by profession, he came from Scotland to join the construction forces which laid the C.P.R.'s lines of steel through the Rockies to Vancouver. Later he played a prominent part in surveying the north and south Canadian Pacific lines out of Calgary to Edmonton and Lethbridge. In 1893 he settled permanently in Calgary, associating himself closely with civic government and a number of community projects. He served as alderman for several terms, was a member of the old General hospital board for many years, was a founder and director of Western Canada College, and a member of Knox United church since it was established here.
During the First Great War he served as secretary of the Southern Alberta Patriotic Fund. He was first chairman of the Town Planning Commission following its inception in 1929, serving on it until January 1944, and a charter member of the Southern Alberta Pioneers' and Old Timers' Association. He was a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Society of Professional Engineer of Alberta and one-time president of the Calgary branch of the Engineering Institute.
A keen gardener, he was one of the first to grow fruit trees in the city and the garden surrounding his residence at 340 4th Ave. W., where he lived for more than 40 years, was one of his chief interests in later life. Mr. Turner Bone was born in Kirkoswald parish, Ayrshire, Scotland. He went to parish school in Kirkoswald. then to Ayr Academy and later to Glasgow University, where he studied civil engineering, at the same time equipping himself along practical lines by working with the firm of Kyle, Dennison and Frew, civil engineers of Glasgow.
Attracted to Canada by the opportunities open to ambitious young men, he came to Toronto in January 1882, as an engineer with the Toronto and Quebec railway. A year later he came to the north-west with the C.P.R., serving as a member of the engineering crew on through the mountains until completion of the line. When rail construction was finished, he put in another year supervising construction of snowsheds through the mountains.
IRRIGATION ENGINEER
In 1887 and 1888 he was associated with construction of a line in Maine, later acquired by the C.P.R. The following year he was in Saskatchewan, associated with the building of the railway between Regina and Prince Albert. When this was completed, he returned to Calgary to assist in construction of the line between Calgary and Edmonton.
In the early 1900's he became first engineer in charge of the C.P.R.'s irrigation projects east of Calgary to Gleichen. A few years later he returned to Scotland and then went to Paris for study at the Sorbonne in Paris, before coming back to Calgary. In addition to his activities as a civil engineer, he engaged to a considerable extent in ranching. He used to like to recall that when he first came to the district buffalo were still plentiful.

KILLED IN ACTION
For several years before his death Mr. Turner Bone spent his leisure in compiling his memoirs, which will be published shortly by MacMillan Publishing Co. His wife, Elizabeth, predeceased him in Calgary in 1927 and one son, John, was killed in action in the First Great War while serving with the air force. Surviving are one son, Allen, Montreal, who will reach Calgary Friday, and three grandchildren. Rev. Allen R. Huband will conduct services in Knox United church Friday at 2 p.m. Burial will follow in the family plot, Burnsland cemetery. Gooder Brothers' funeral home is in charge.