Settlers of Canada: Patrick Burns, Augustus Jones, Aaron Hart, Thomas Rowell Leavitt, Marie-Anne Gaboury, Susanna Moodie, Jesse Knight

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Patrick Burns, Augustus Jones, Aaron Hart, Thomas Rowell Leavitt, Marie-Anne Gaboury, Susanna Moodie, Jesse Knight, Alexis St. Martin, Jeanne Mance, James Todd, Alexander Ross, John Ware, Charles Ora Card, Iwan Pylypow, Hiram Capron, Theodore Brandley, Jacques Talbot, Alexander Monkman, Dominique Ducharme, John Moore Robinson, Esther Brandeau, Monica Storrs, John Hextall, Raymond Knight, Roderick Finlayson, John Troyer, Carl Stettler, James McNabb, Jean-Baptiste Thibault, Rene Godefroy, sieur de Linctot, Claude-Thomas Dupuy, Edward Allen Talbot, Asa Townsend, Richard Talbot, Robert and Henry Pratt, Robert Corrigan, Jean Pierre Roma, Clark Finch. Excerpt: Patrick Burns (July 6, 1856 - February 24, 1937) was a Canadian rancher, meat packer, businessman, senator, and philanthropist. A self-made man, he built one of the world's largest integrated meat-packing empires, P. Burns & Co., and was one of the wealthiest Canadians of his time. He is honoured as one of the Big Four western cattle kings who started the Calgary Stampede in Alberta in 1912. While making his fortune in the meat industry, ranching was his true passion. Burns' 700,000 acres (2,800 km) of cattle ranches covered so vast an area of Southern Alberta that he could travel from Cochrane to the US border without ever leaving his land. In 1931 Burns was appointed to the Canadian Senate as a representative for Alberta. On October 16, 2008, the Calgary Herald named Pat Burns as the greatest citizen in Alberta's history. Born in Oshawa, Ontario in 1856, Patrick was the fourth of eleven children of Michael and Bridgit O'Byrne. Shortly after, the family moved to Kirkfield, Ontario where Pat would spend the majority of his childhood. His parents had emigrated from Ireland and, as part of the naturalization process, the family name was shortened to Byrne and then lat...