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Digitizer

• Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1880-1889.

Summary note

Description: Consists of ranching views, primarily unidentified.

Notes

• Charles Sharples, 1856-1909, was born in Quebec. He came to Montana, USA in 1878 and joined a cattle drive bringing livestock to the Cochrane Ranche in Alberta. He remained in Alberta and worked for the Department of Indian Affairs, then in 1884 was appointed manager of the Winder Ranche near Claresholm, Alberta. The ranch ran up to 1100 head of horses, selling most to the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP). When the Winder Ranche Company was dissolved in 1892, Sharples filed as a homesteader on the site of the ranch headquarters. He married Barbara Macdonald in 1892 and they had four children. In 1902, he was appointed brand inspector, coroner and Justice of the Peace for the Claresholm district.
• AMDigital Reference: NC-19 and PA-328.

Original version

Reproduction of: Charles Sharples Photographs c. 1880s.

Location of originals

Glenbow Museum

Copyright note

Glenbow Museum

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on April 12, 2017).

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