Ted Gardner, Pioneer, Dies In Stettler At 71
Ted Gardner, widely known throughout Alberta as a cattleman and livestock dealer, died recently in the Stettler Hospital. He had been a resident of the Stettler district for many years.
Edward Meopham Gardner came of an old English family. He was born in Russell, Man., in 1884, and came to Alberta the year following the Northwest Rebellion in 1886. Captain Meopham Gardner, with his wife, Ted, and infant son Clem who is today a well known Alberta rancher, crossed the Prairies in a democrat to establish one of the province's pioneer ranches west of Calgary on the Elbow river.
In 1905 Ted and Clem Gardner located in the Hand Hills area north of the Red Deer river. During the fall of 1906 prairie fires burned their winter range and there was a serious outbreak of mange. The disastrous winter of 1906-07 which started in November with bitter sub-zero temperatures, saw dozens of outfits completely wiped out, when people were frozen to death and cattle died by the hundreds. The Gardner brothers, with less than half their cattle left, sold the dry stock and returned to the Pirmez Creek ranch.
In 1909 Ted Gardner started working for the late Senator Pat Burns. For some years he was in charge of the great trainloads of Burns' cattle dispatched to the old county. He also bought cattle on most of the big U.S. markets for these overseas contracts.
Ted Gardner was at one time the manager of the Burns' Imperial Ranch south of Stettler, a spread which covered three townships. He negotiated its sale to Usher Brothers and Jim Walter of Clive.
After leaving Pat Burns' employment he managed the Cluskin Ranch at Sexsmith in the Peace River District until retiring to Stettler in 1923 to take up permanent residence.
Mr. Gardner belonged to the Western Stock Growers' Association, the Southern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timers' Association and the Rotary Club. He was a life member of Masonic Apollo Lodge No. 27, and the Elk's Lodge.
He is survived by his widow, Muriel; his daughter, Mrs. June Lannan of Hollywood, Calif.; one brother, Clem of Pirmez Creek, two sisters, Mrs. E. O. Wallace of Calgary, and Mrs. J. Gervers of Kelowna, B.C.
Excerpt from The Calgary Herald, September 1, 1955, page 21
Ted Gardner, widely known throughout Alberta as a cattleman and livestock dealer, died recently in the Stettler Hospital. He had been a resident of the Stettler district for many years.
Edward Meopham Gardner came of an old English family. He was born in Russell, Man., in 1884, and came to Alberta the year following the Northwest Rebellion in 1886. Captain Meopham Gardner, with his wife, Ted, and infant son Clem who is today a well known Alberta rancher, crossed the Prairies in a democrat to establish one of the province's pioneer ranches west of Calgary on the Elbow river.
In 1905 Ted and Clem Gardner located in the Hand Hills area north of the Red Deer river. During the fall of 1906 prairie fires burned their winter range and there was a serious outbreak of mange. The disastrous winter of 1906-07 which started in November with bitter sub-zero temperatures, saw dozens of outfits completely wiped out, when people were frozen to death and cattle died by the hundreds. The Gardner brothers, with less than half their cattle left, sold the dry stock and returned to the Pirmez Creek ranch.
In 1909 Ted Gardner started working for the late Senator Pat Burns. For some years he was in charge of the great trainloads of Burns' cattle dispatched to the old county. He also bought cattle on most of the big U.S. markets for these overseas contracts.
Ted Gardner was at one time the manager of the Burns' Imperial Ranch south of Stettler, a spread which covered three townships. He negotiated its sale to Usher Brothers and Jim Walter of Clive.
After leaving Pat Burns' employment he managed the Cluskin Ranch at Sexsmith in the Peace River District until retiring to Stettler in 1923 to take up permanent residence.
Mr. Gardner belonged to the Western Stock Growers' Association, the Southern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timers' Association and the Rotary Club. He was a life member of Masonic Apollo Lodge No. 27, and the Elk's Lodge.
He is survived by his widow, Muriel; his daughter, Mrs. June Lannan of Hollywood, Calif.; one brother, Clem of Pirmez Creek, two sisters, Mrs. E. O. Wallace of Calgary, and Mrs. J. Gervers of Kelowna, B.C.
Excerpt from The Calgary Herald, September 1, 1955, page 21
Ted Gardner, Pioneer, Dies In Stettler At 71
Ted Gardner, widely known throughout Alberta as a cattleman and livestock dealer, died recently in the Stettler Hospital. He had been a resident of the Stettler district for many years.
Edward Meopham Gardner came of an old English family. He was born in Russell, Man., in 1884, and came to Alberta the year following the Northwest Rebellion in 1886. Captain Meopham Gardner, with his wife, Ted, and infant son Clem who is today a well known Alberta rancher, crossed the Prairies in a democrat to establish one of the province's pioneer ranches west of Calgary on the Elbow river.
In 1905 Ted and Clem Gardner located in the Hand Hills area north of the Red Deer river. During the fall of 1906 prairie fires burned their winter range and there was a serious outbreak of mange. The disastrous winter of 1906-07 which started in November with bitter sub-zero temperatures, saw dozens of outfits completely wiped out, when people were frozen to death and cattle died by the hundreds. The Gardner brothers, with less than half their cattle left, sold the dry stock and returned to the Pirmez Creek ranch.
In 1909 Ted Gardner started working for the late Senator Pat Burns. For some years he was in charge of the great trainloads of Burns' cattle dispatched to the old county. He also bought cattle on most of the big U.S. markets for these overseas contracts.
Ted Gardner was at one time the manager of the Burns' Imperial Ranch south of Stettler, a spread which covered three townships. He negotiated its sale to Usher Brothers and Jim Walter of Clive.
After leaving Pat Burns' employment he managed the Cluskin Ranch at Sexsmith in the Peace River District until retiring to Stettler in 1923 to take up permanent residence.
Mr. Gardner belonged to the Western Stock Growers' Association, the Southern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timers' Association and the Rotary Club. He was a life member of Masonic Apollo Lodge No. 27, and the Elk's Lodge.
He is survived by his widow, Muriel; his daughter, Mrs. June Lannan of Hollywood, Calif.; one brother, Clem of Pirmez Creek, two sisters, Mrs. E. O. Wallace of Calgary, and Mrs. J. Gervers of Kelowna, B.C.
Excerpt from The Calgary Herald, September 1, 1955, page 21
Ted Gardner, widely known throughout Alberta as a cattleman and livestock dealer, died recently in the Stettler Hospital. He had been a resident of the Stettler district for many years.
Edward Meopham Gardner came of an old English family. He was born in Russell, Man., in 1884, and came to Alberta the year following the Northwest Rebellion in 1886. Captain Meopham Gardner, with his wife, Ted, and infant son Clem who is today a well known Alberta rancher, crossed the Prairies in a democrat to establish one of the province's pioneer ranches west of Calgary on the Elbow river.
In 1905 Ted and Clem Gardner located in the Hand Hills area north of the Red Deer river. During the fall of 1906 prairie fires burned their winter range and there was a serious outbreak of mange. The disastrous winter of 1906-07 which started in November with bitter sub-zero temperatures, saw dozens of outfits completely wiped out, when people were frozen to death and cattle died by the hundreds. The Gardner brothers, with less than half their cattle left, sold the dry stock and returned to the Pirmez Creek ranch.
In 1909 Ted Gardner started working for the late Senator Pat Burns. For some years he was in charge of the great trainloads of Burns' cattle dispatched to the old county. He also bought cattle on most of the big U.S. markets for these overseas contracts.
Ted Gardner was at one time the manager of the Burns' Imperial Ranch south of Stettler, a spread which covered three townships. He negotiated its sale to Usher Brothers and Jim Walter of Clive.
After leaving Pat Burns' employment he managed the Cluskin Ranch at Sexsmith in the Peace River District until retiring to Stettler in 1923 to take up permanent residence.
Mr. Gardner belonged to the Western Stock Growers' Association, the Southern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timers' Association and the Rotary Club. He was a life member of Masonic Apollo Lodge No. 27, and the Elk's Lodge.
He is survived by his widow, Muriel; his daughter, Mrs. June Lannan of Hollywood, Calif.; one brother, Clem of Pirmez Creek, two sisters, Mrs. E. O. Wallace of Calgary, and Mrs. J. Gervers of Kelowna, B.C.
Excerpt from The Calgary Herald, September 1, 1955, page 21
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