WILLIAM H. FLOOD.
 


	William H. Flood is one of those business men whose personal opera-
tions have resulted in a direct benefit to the community in which he re
sides and carries on his activities. As the head of a large land company
he has been instrumental in opening up large unsettled tracts and attract-
ing to the agricultural districts of the province a class of immigrants
that have developed the land and become desirable citizens. The extent
of the influence of his work would be hard to measure, but it is safe to
say that there are few men of Mr. Flood's age in Saskatchewan who
have had so much influence in bringing its untilled acres under cultiva-
tion, thus contributing to the growth of a wealthy agricultural region.
William H. Flood was born in Paisley, Bruce county, Ontario, in 1888,
and is the son of the late William and Jane (Strong) Flood, the former
an Irishman by birth and the latter a native of New York state, her birth
having occurred near Rochester. His parents were married in Ontario,
where William Flood was engaged in mercantile pursuits for many years
and later entered the live stock business. He was very successful in his
business activities and thus was able to provide his children with an ex-
cellent educational preparation for life. The father died in Regina, where
he had made his home for the seven years previous. The mother is still
living and resides in Toronto. William Flood always voted with the Lib-
eral party and in religion adhered to the teachings of the Roman Catholic
church. His son, William, was the third child in a family of eight, seven
of whom are living. William H. Flood was educated in Paisley, Ontario,
and Brantford College, following which he took up ranching in South
Dakota and continued in this line of work for three years. In 1901 he
returned to Canada and accepted a position with the Imperial Dry Goods
Company in Winnipeg, where he was connected with the house furnish-
ings department for two years. From Winnipeg the young man came
out to Regina, and he opened a real estate business here in 1903, in con-
nection with which he did a building and contracting business for several
years. It was part of his work in those days to build homes which he later
sold to prospective owners on terms that a man with a modest income
could meet, and in similar ways to help promote the building program
necessary to house the rapidly increasing population of the city.
	Mr. Flood is now specializing in farm lands under the name of The
Flood Land Company, which has had branches in Rosetown, Kindersley
and Saskatoon, as well as the main office at Regina. In developing its
large holdings in agricultural lands this firm has followed an aggressive
policy in immigration that has resulted in bringing into the province
many new settlers, a considerable part of whom came from the States.
These farmers were not only encouraged to come into the new country
and buy land, but they were given various kinds of assistance to enable
~hem to make a good start in working their own farms and in building
up their neighborhoods. Many of the Americans now living about Rose-
town and Kindersley in what is known as the Goose Lake country, were
brought there by Mr. Flood and his associates. The same company wal
most active in settling people along the Soo Line and now ranks as one
of the oldest and most successful of the large companies in the province.
It has sold many thousands of acres of land and has been a factor not to
be lightly valued in considering the forces that have contributed to the
phenomenal development of the Canadian west. Another of Mr. Flood's
enterprises is the Queen City Oil Company, which he was instrumental
in organizing and promoting. He sold the concern its leases on oil lands
in Montana, amounting to some thousand and eighty acres. Mr. Flood is
a man of exceptional organizing genius, who has found a suitable field
for his labor in the partially developed territory of the northwest. As
he is capable of planning large enterprises and carrying them to a suc-
cessful completion, down to the last minor detail, his ventures in the real
estate business on a large scale have been attended with noteworthy suc-
cess and he stands today as one of the leading figures in this line of work
in Saskatchewan.
	In September, 1907, Mr. Flood was married to Miss Margaret Ann
Carnegie, who was born and reared at Port Perry, Ontario, and educated
there and at Havergill College, Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Flood have two
daughters: Margaret and Phyllis.  Fraternally Mr. Flood is identified
with the Knights of Columbus, which indicates that he is a member of
the Roman Catholic church. His clubs are the Assiniboia and Wascana
Country Clubs of Regina. Since he was a boy Mr. Flood has been fond
of horses, and is a good judge of both harness and saddle horses.  In
fact, his love of these animals has made him an enthusiast on the sub-
ject, which provides him with a wholesome interest that is entirely differ-
ent from his business. For like all well-balanced men, he plays as hard
as he works and finds his brain all the clearer in the morning after the
diversions of the day before.




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