James Walker - Calgary's Citizen of the Century
Winnipeg/Canada,1/Fe 19/85 Duplex to Calgary, N.W.T. Calgary receiver on back.
James Walker orders The Manitoba Free Press: one weekly subscription to be mailed to Carluke, Ont. (his home town) and a second to his address in Calgary.
James Walker was introduced in this series on Calgary Group Page No. 1 with an 1882 cover. By the time the above card was mailed in 1885, Walker had resigned from the N.W.M.P. and established himself as a businessman with interests in ranching and lumber. Among his lifetime of accomplishments he was responsible for the laying of Calgary's first sidewalk, stringing the first telephone line and founding the Calgary Agricultural Society [forerunner of the Calgary Stampede]. On the outbreak of World War I, Walker led a battalion of Canadian Forestry Corps that served in England and Scotland. His contributions to Calgary are many and for the 1900's was named Calgary's Citizen of the Century.
The James Walker correspondence was disbursed years ago but the alert collector can still find these interesting and historic covers and cards.
- From the Hugh Delaney Collection.
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