GEORGE S. PEACOCK.
 


	George S. Peacock has been connected with the Regina Cold Storage &
Transfer Company for a period of twenty years, throughout which he has
been a witness of the remarkable growth of the Saskatchewan capital.
Moreover, he has had the satisfaction of seeing his own company expand
to keep pace with the increasing needs of the community, bringing a grati-
fying reward to those persons connected with its establishment and sub-
sequent operation. As manager of the firm since 1904, Mr. Peacock has
had a substantial share in this development.
	Mr. Peacock first came to Regina in 1901, when he was a young man
of twenty-one. His earlier life had been spent in his native province of
Ontario, where he was born, in Bruce county, on the 4th of September,
1880. His father, Samuel Peacock, was a farmer of English birth, who
immigrated to Canada from his native Yorkshire in early life. In Ontario,
where he settled on a farm, he met and was married to Miss Catherine
Stewart, who had been born in Peel county of that province.  Samuel
Peacock was a Conservative in his political views, and both he and his
wife were devout members of the Methodist church.  George was the
eighth of their ten children, seven of whom are living.
	George S. Peacock was educated in the high school at Port Elgin and
the Model school at Walkerton, following which he taught in Ontario for
two and a half years. In 1901 he came west to Regina, where he took the
course in the Normal School and taught for six months at the barracks of
the Mounted Police.  In partnership with H. W. Laird he founded the
Regina Cold Storage & Forwarding Company in 1903 and has been man-
ager of the concern since 1904. The operations of the firm are those cus-
tomary in connection with cold storage and a general transfer business
and it has become one of the largest firms of its kind in the city.  Mr.
Peacock is also financially interested in and vice president of the Security
Storage & Transfer Company, which makes a specialty of packing goods
for shipment and handling furniture.  This is a new organization, but
has already found a good field for development in its particular line of
work.
	Mr. Peacock was married in 1908 to Miss Ella M. Stephenson, a native
of Lambton county, Ontario, and they have two children: Billie, a boy of
twelve; and Nancy, aged ten. Mrs. Peacock is prominent in the women's
societies of the Methodist church, of which she and Mr. Peacock are mem-
bers. Mr. Peacock is a Mason, a member of the United Order of Canadians
and the Rotary Club. Socially he is identified with the Assinlboia Club,
while his membership in the Wascana Country Club, the Regina Curling
Club, of which he has held the office of president, and the Regina Gun
Club, indicate a love of outdoor sports-his chief source of recreation.
He possesses the initiative and energy that is characteristic of the west
and has always kept well abreast of all developments and progress in both
civic and commercial circles in Regina, in whose future he has unbounded
faith.

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