ROBERT SAMUEL PARK.

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	Robert Samuel Park, at one time pioneer homestead inspector of the
Northwest Territories and a large landowner in this province, is one of
the strong business men of Whitewood. He was born in North Montreal,
Quebec, on the 25th of September, 1841, a son of James and Mary (Mc-
Leod) Park, who resided in the province of Quebec until their death.
They were prominent and highly esteemed in the community in which they
resided, Mr. Park being an extensive and successful 
agriculturist.
	In the pursuit of his education Robert Samuel Park attended the
public schools of his native province, and the Military School at Quebec
in 1864, and has a first-class certificate that he is able to handle a bat-
talion in the field. He started business in Hawkesbury, county of Pres-
cott, Ontario, and had lumber camps on the Ottawa and South Nation
rivers, supplying steamers with cordwood (the fuel at that time), for
over ten years, and sold from ten thousand to twenty thousand cords of
wood.  He was appointed Homestead Inspector in August, 1883, and
came west to Brandon in September of that year, locating permanently
in Whitewood in June, 1886, where he served as Homestead Inspector up
to the fall of 1898, when he was removed to Winnipeg. He remained there
in the Dominion Land office until February of 1900.  He came back to
Whitewood in June of that year and opened an office as real estate agent.
He is still residing there and is eighty-two years of age past last Sep-
tember.  He is considered an authority on land values throughout the
province, and owns thirty-six hundred acres of prairie land near White-
wood.
	Mr. Park has been twice married.  In 1865 he was married to Miss
Elizabeth Anderson, a native of Ontario, and a daughter of Rev. James
Norman Anderson, of Ormstown, Quebec. Mrs. Park died in 1871. On
the 2d of April, 1874, Mr. Park was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth
Clarrisa Pattie, of Hawksbury, a native of Ontario, and a daughter of a
United Empire Loyalist.
	Fraternally Mr. Park is identified with the Masons and he is Past
Master of the Queens Accepted Masons. He claims to be the oldest Free
Mason in the province, under the grand lodge of Ireland charter for St.
John's Lodge, Vankleek Hill, brought out of Ireland by the old settlers
of Ireland who settled at Vankleek Hill. He became a registered master
Mason on November 1, 1867. The religious faith of Mr. Park is that of
the Presbyterian church.


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