A. JOSEPH HYLAND. 

	A.Joseph Hyland, a locomotive engineer of Moose Jaw, is one of the
oldest engineers in the Canadian Pacific System, with which he has been
connected continuously for almost forty years. Beginning as an engine
wiper, he has worked his way to the top through the intermediate stages
of fireman and substitute engineer until today he runs one of the best
passenger trains on his road-the Imperial Limited. His present run is
to Broadview, Saskatchewan. To be intrusted with great transconti-
nental train is the height of every Canadian locomotive engineer's am-
bition and a goal attained by few, for it is only the engineer of long ex-
perience and consummate skill who can speed these palatial trains across
the prairies and mountains on schedule time in all sorts of weather, with
the minimum amount of jarring and discomfort to their passengers.
When Mr. Hyland was made an engineer on the Imperial Limited, the
appointment came as a fitting tribute to his years of careful and able
service in the employ of his company. His record is one that might be
envied by any railroad man, for it shows a series of advancements and
is clear of demotions and censure. Moreover, Mr. Hyland is happy to
be able to claim that he has never had a bad accident in all his years
of railroad life.
	Born in Hagersville, Ontario, on the 11th of July, 1867, A. Joseph
Hyland is the seventh child and youngest son of James and Mary
(O'Shaughnessy) Hyland, both of whom are deceased. Out of a family
of eight, four children are living: A. Joseph Hyland, of this review; and
three sisters-Mrs. Brennan of Broadview, Mrs. Chatterton, of Nelson,
British Columbia, and Mrs. Concanty of Moose Jaw. The father and
mother were born in Ontario and married in the east. James Hyland as a
young man settled on one hundred acres of unimproved land, which he
cleared and farmed until 1875, when he came as far west as Manitoba.
There he was engaged in work on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, which was
just being built, working as a foreman of a construction gang. After about
four years he returned to Ontario, but 1882 found him back in western
Canada, this time in Saskatchewan, where he took up a homestead near
Broadview. Some years before his death he retired from the farm and
both he and his wife passed away in Broadview. He always voted with
the Conservative party, while his religious faith was that of the Roman
Catholic church.
	A.Joseph Hyland obtained his education in the public schools of Hag-
ersville before he came out west to live. He was. a lad of fifteen when
the family settled in Broadview, just old enough to help with the work
and feel the thrills of frontier life. In his new home he drove a team of
oxen on the farm and in other ways proved himself almost equal to a
man in strength and skill. When the news of the Rebellion spread about
the country in 1885, Mr. Hyland, then eighteen years of age, drove from
Broadview to Troy, arriving just about the time that Riel was captured.
The following year he went to work on the railroad as an engine wiper.
Before long he was promoted to the position of fireman and in 1892 he
became an engineer, running extra locomotives.  Ever since 1896 he
has been making regular runs as an engineer on the Canadian Pacific
trains and now has the Imperial Limited, one of the best trains in the
system. Mr. Hyland came to Moose Jaw to live in 1887 and has made
this city his home ever since, starting from here on all of his runs.
	On January 10, 1894, Mr. Hyland was united in marriage to Miss
Margaret Cowan, daughter of Thomas Cowan, one of the early residents
of Moose Jaw. Mrs. Hyland was born in Missouri and came to Canada
with her family in~ 1880. For three years her father operated a grocery
store in Winnipeg, following which he came out to Moose Jaw. Here
he built the Occidental Boarding House, which will be remembered by
all the people who came here in the '80s, and conducted this establishment
for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Hyland have a family of six chil-
dren, three sons and three daughters: Gladys, who married John Bastedo,
a farmer of Vantage, Saskatchewan; Miss Jean, an employe in the Land
Titles office; Josephine, now living at home; Harold, who is employed
by Swift & Company, in their Moose Jaw branch; and Kenneth and Ivan,
who are in school.
	Mrs. Hyland is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Hyland
has departed from the family traditions in politics by giving his support
to the Liberal party and is identified with the Ancient Order of United
Workmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He has always
been fond of outdoor sports and as a young man was one of the leading
baseball players of this community.

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