AGE 79 YRS 2 MOS.
Born in County Wexford, Ireland on 14 February 1847, he came to Canada at the age of ten. He grew up at Hamilton, Ontario then attended the Toronto Normal School before teaching at Thorold, Ontario for 11 years. In 1882 he and his brother Thomas came to Stonewall, moving the following year to Virden where they farmed 960 acres. Scallion was the founder and first President of the United Farmers of Manitoba (formed as the Manitoba Grain Growers' Association in 1903) and a founder of the Progressive Party of Manitoba. He led the battle against excessive freight rates in 1910. He died unmarried at his home in Virden on 24 April 1926
"Near the end of his life, James Scallion and his sister Hannah created two permanent philanthropic endowments, one to support the Virden hospital and the other to maintain the Virden cemetery, where Scallion was buried when he died in 1926." Source: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=8356 James William Scallion was an important man who fought for the betterment of the Manitoban and Western Canadian agriculture community. He was instrumental in the formation of a number of associations that later led to the first farmers' government in Manitoba under John Bracken.
Born in County Wexford, Ireland on 14 February 1847, he came to Canada at the age of ten. He grew up at Hamilton, Ontario then attended the Toronto Normal School before teaching at Thorold, Ontario for 11 years. In 1882 he and his brother Thomas came to Stonewall, moving the following year to Virden where they farmed 960 acres. Scallion was the founder and first President of the United Farmers of Manitoba (formed as the Manitoba Grain Growers' Association in 1903) and a founder of the Progressive Party of Manitoba. He led the battle against excessive freight rates in 1910. He died unmarried at his home in Virden on 24 April 1926
"Near the end of his life, James Scallion and his sister Hannah created two permanent philanthropic endowments, one to support the Virden hospital and the other to maintain the Virden cemetery, where Scallion was buried when he died in 1926." Source: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=8356 James William Scallion was an important man who fought for the betterment of the Manitoban and Western Canadian agriculture community. He was instrumental in the formation of a number of associations that later led to the first farmers' government in Manitoba under John Bracken.
AGE 79 YRS 2 MOS.
Born in County Wexford, Ireland on 14 February 1847, he came to Canada at the age of ten. He grew up at Hamilton, Ontario then attended the Toronto Normal School before teaching at Thorold, Ontario for 11 years. In 1882 he and his brother Thomas came to Stonewall, moving the following year to Virden where they farmed 960 acres. Scallion was the founder and first President of the United Farmers of Manitoba (formed as the Manitoba Grain Growers' Association in 1903) and a founder of the Progressive Party of Manitoba. He led the battle against excessive freight rates in 1910. He died unmarried at his home in Virden on 24 April 1926
"Near the end of his life, James Scallion and his sister Hannah created two permanent philanthropic endowments, one to support the Virden hospital and the other to maintain the Virden cemetery, where Scallion was buried when he died in 1926." Source: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=8356 James William Scallion was an important man who fought for the betterment of the Manitoban and Western Canadian agriculture community. He was instrumental in the formation of a number of associations that later led to the first farmers' government in Manitoba under John Bracken.
Born in County Wexford, Ireland on 14 February 1847, he came to Canada at the age of ten. He grew up at Hamilton, Ontario then attended the Toronto Normal School before teaching at Thorold, Ontario for 11 years. In 1882 he and his brother Thomas came to Stonewall, moving the following year to Virden where they farmed 960 acres. Scallion was the founder and first President of the United Farmers of Manitoba (formed as the Manitoba Grain Growers' Association in 1903) and a founder of the Progressive Party of Manitoba. He led the battle against excessive freight rates in 1910. He died unmarried at his home in Virden on 24 April 1926
"Near the end of his life, James Scallion and his sister Hannah created two permanent philanthropic endowments, one to support the Virden hospital and the other to maintain the Virden cemetery, where Scallion was buried when he died in 1926." Source: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=8356 James William Scallion was an important man who fought for the betterment of the Manitoban and Western Canadian agriculture community. He was instrumental in the formation of a number of associations that later led to the first farmers' government in Manitoba under John Bracken.
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