From the Calgary Herald, Thursday, September 12, 1957, pg 42:
Last of Fabulous Family, Dr. Donald Lineham, Dies
Dr. Donald Lineham, the last and youngest of the fabulous Linehams whose love for adventure brought them to Alberta's foothills with its earliest pioneers, died peacefully during his sleep in his Vancouver home last week, at the age of 84. He was the seventh son of the Lineham family who came from England to Montreal and later to Ontario soon after Confederation.
There were also two daughters, one of whom became Mrs. David Morrison, a pioneer of the Tongue Creek district and who died in 1938. Two of her children John Morrison and Mrs. Alberta Taylor reside in High River, and it was to their homes that this grand old doctor made many trips back to visit the country the Linehams loved so well.
John Lineham was the first to turn his eyes to the west and adventure. He left his Ontario home in 1880, travelling to Manitoba where he made his first money on a sub-contract for building railway grade for MacKenzie and Mann on a railway building at Dauphin. In 1881 he followed the CPR to Calgary where he became one of its first settlers and later as a prominent citizen, representing it in Regina in the North West Territories Assembly government for many years and was offered a senatorship, which he refused.
He was always willing to take a chance and established the first sawmill in what is now the town of Okotoks, and sent for his brothers, Will, Tom and Jim to join him in his venture. Some of his eastern neighbors also came to work for him, and a little settlement was formed which grew into the village of Okotoks. The brothers moved out and took up homesteads at the lower ranch which was south and west of Okotoks, where the C & E railway went through the valley.
TRIED DRILLING
He joined his friend A.P. Patrick in 1901, and they chartered the Rocky Mountain Development Company to drill the first oil well in Alberta. When they lost 70 feet of tools in the hole and were unsuccessful in regaining them, to clear the well, John lost interest in the oil business and turned his busy mind to Calgary and the booming real estate business of that day. His brother Will, a quiet reliable man, stayed with him, but Joe went on to the gold rush in California where he died.
Angus who came west to Regina in 1885, was a contractor and built the scaffold on which Louis Riel was hanged. He later went to Dawson Creek prospecting and died there. Tom became a noted explorer in Alaska, going on to the Madagascar Islands, and finally to the diamond fields of Cape Colony where he died.
STUDIED MEDICINE
Donald who stayed in the east to study medicine at McGill came west after one year's study, lured by the stories his brothers wrote, and went to work for John on the drive in the mill office. Finally after three years, he again returned east and completed his training in medicine. He became one of the west's pioneer doctors, practising in Winnipeg until the First Great War, and later settling in Vancouver.
John died in 1914 and Will in 1927, but to Dr. Donald Lineham the foothills country was still "back home" and nearly every year he returned to meet with the old timers, and talk about the early days and the seven Lineham boys whose love of adventure was legend.
To Donald Lineham, M.D., his adventure was the work he loved in medicine, and although at 75 he officially retired, he still took the odd trip as ship's surgeon up and down the coast from Vancouver to Kitimat. He loved the experience of seeing another part of Canada's country developed. He leaves only two children out of the four, (Lillian) Mrs. Swanson, and (Doris) Mrs. Ternen at the coast. His second wife predeceased him in 1953.
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B.C. Death Registration #57 09 009393
Last of Fabulous Family, Dr. Donald Lineham, Dies
Dr. Donald Lineham, the last and youngest of the fabulous Linehams whose love for adventure brought them to Alberta's foothills with its earliest pioneers, died peacefully during his sleep in his Vancouver home last week, at the age of 84. He was the seventh son of the Lineham family who came from England to Montreal and later to Ontario soon after Confederation.
There were also two daughters, one of whom became Mrs. David Morrison, a pioneer of the Tongue Creek district and who died in 1938. Two of her children John Morrison and Mrs. Alberta Taylor reside in High River, and it was to their homes that this grand old doctor made many trips back to visit the country the Linehams loved so well.
John Lineham was the first to turn his eyes to the west and adventure. He left his Ontario home in 1880, travelling to Manitoba where he made his first money on a sub-contract for building railway grade for MacKenzie and Mann on a railway building at Dauphin. In 1881 he followed the CPR to Calgary where he became one of its first settlers and later as a prominent citizen, representing it in Regina in the North West Territories Assembly government for many years and was offered a senatorship, which he refused.
He was always willing to take a chance and established the first sawmill in what is now the town of Okotoks, and sent for his brothers, Will, Tom and Jim to join him in his venture. Some of his eastern neighbors also came to work for him, and a little settlement was formed which grew into the village of Okotoks. The brothers moved out and took up homesteads at the lower ranch which was south and west of Okotoks, where the C & E railway went through the valley.
TRIED DRILLING
He joined his friend A.P. Patrick in 1901, and they chartered the Rocky Mountain Development Company to drill the first oil well in Alberta. When they lost 70 feet of tools in the hole and were unsuccessful in regaining them, to clear the well, John lost interest in the oil business and turned his busy mind to Calgary and the booming real estate business of that day. His brother Will, a quiet reliable man, stayed with him, but Joe went on to the gold rush in California where he died.
Angus who came west to Regina in 1885, was a contractor and built the scaffold on which Louis Riel was hanged. He later went to Dawson Creek prospecting and died there. Tom became a noted explorer in Alaska, going on to the Madagascar Islands, and finally to the diamond fields of Cape Colony where he died.
STUDIED MEDICINE
Donald who stayed in the east to study medicine at McGill came west after one year's study, lured by the stories his brothers wrote, and went to work for John on the drive in the mill office. Finally after three years, he again returned east and completed his training in medicine. He became one of the west's pioneer doctors, practising in Winnipeg until the First Great War, and later settling in Vancouver.
John died in 1914 and Will in 1927, but to Dr. Donald Lineham the foothills country was still "back home" and nearly every year he returned to meet with the old timers, and talk about the early days and the seven Lineham boys whose love of adventure was legend.
To Donald Lineham, M.D., his adventure was the work he loved in medicine, and although at 75 he officially retired, he still took the odd trip as ship's surgeon up and down the coast from Vancouver to Kitimat. He loved the experience of seeing another part of Canada's country developed. He leaves only two children out of the four, (Lillian) Mrs. Swanson, and (Doris) Mrs. Ternen at the coast. His second wife predeceased him in 1953.
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B.C. Death Registration #57 09 009393
From the Calgary Herald, Thursday, September 12, 1957, pg 42:
Last of Fabulous Family, Dr. Donald Lineham, Dies
Dr. Donald Lineham, the last and youngest of the fabulous Linehams whose love for adventure brought them to Alberta's foothills with its earliest pioneers, died peacefully during his sleep in his Vancouver home last week, at the age of 84. He was the seventh son of the Lineham family who came from England to Montreal and later to Ontario soon after Confederation.
There were also two daughters, one of whom became Mrs. David Morrison, a pioneer of the Tongue Creek district and who died in 1938. Two of her children John Morrison and Mrs. Alberta Taylor reside in High River, and it was to their homes that this grand old doctor made many trips back to visit the country the Linehams loved so well.
John Lineham was the first to turn his eyes to the west and adventure. He left his Ontario home in 1880, travelling to Manitoba where he made his first money on a sub-contract for building railway grade for MacKenzie and Mann on a railway building at Dauphin. In 1881 he followed the CPR to Calgary where he became one of its first settlers and later as a prominent citizen, representing it in Regina in the North West Territories Assembly government for many years and was offered a senatorship, which he refused.
He was always willing to take a chance and established the first sawmill in what is now the town of Okotoks, and sent for his brothers, Will, Tom and Jim to join him in his venture. Some of his eastern neighbors also came to work for him, and a little settlement was formed which grew into the village of Okotoks. The brothers moved out and took up homesteads at the lower ranch which was south and west of Okotoks, where the C & E railway went through the valley.
TRIED DRILLING
He joined his friend A.P. Patrick in 1901, and they chartered the Rocky Mountain Development Company to drill the first oil well in Alberta. When they lost 70 feet of tools in the hole and were unsuccessful in regaining them, to clear the well, John lost interest in the oil business and turned his busy mind to Calgary and the booming real estate business of that day. His brother Will, a quiet reliable man, stayed with him, but Joe went on to the gold rush in California where he died.
Angus who came west to Regina in 1885, was a contractor and built the scaffold on which Louis Riel was hanged. He later went to Dawson Creek prospecting and died there. Tom became a noted explorer in Alaska, going on to the Madagascar Islands, and finally to the diamond fields of Cape Colony where he died.
STUDIED MEDICINE
Donald who stayed in the east to study medicine at McGill came west after one year's study, lured by the stories his brothers wrote, and went to work for John on the drive in the mill office. Finally after three years, he again returned east and completed his training in medicine. He became one of the west's pioneer doctors, practising in Winnipeg until the First Great War, and later settling in Vancouver.
John died in 1914 and Will in 1927, but to Dr. Donald Lineham the foothills country was still "back home" and nearly every year he returned to meet with the old timers, and talk about the early days and the seven Lineham boys whose love of adventure was legend.
To Donald Lineham, M.D., his adventure was the work he loved in medicine, and although at 75 he officially retired, he still took the odd trip as ship's surgeon up and down the coast from Vancouver to Kitimat. He loved the experience of seeing another part of Canada's country developed. He leaves only two children out of the four, (Lillian) Mrs. Swanson, and (Doris) Mrs. Ternen at the coast. His second wife predeceased him in 1953.
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B.C. Death Registration #57 09 009393
Last of Fabulous Family, Dr. Donald Lineham, Dies
Dr. Donald Lineham, the last and youngest of the fabulous Linehams whose love for adventure brought them to Alberta's foothills with its earliest pioneers, died peacefully during his sleep in his Vancouver home last week, at the age of 84. He was the seventh son of the Lineham family who came from England to Montreal and later to Ontario soon after Confederation.
There were also two daughters, one of whom became Mrs. David Morrison, a pioneer of the Tongue Creek district and who died in 1938. Two of her children John Morrison and Mrs. Alberta Taylor reside in High River, and it was to their homes that this grand old doctor made many trips back to visit the country the Linehams loved so well.
John Lineham was the first to turn his eyes to the west and adventure. He left his Ontario home in 1880, travelling to Manitoba where he made his first money on a sub-contract for building railway grade for MacKenzie and Mann on a railway building at Dauphin. In 1881 he followed the CPR to Calgary where he became one of its first settlers and later as a prominent citizen, representing it in Regina in the North West Territories Assembly government for many years and was offered a senatorship, which he refused.
He was always willing to take a chance and established the first sawmill in what is now the town of Okotoks, and sent for his brothers, Will, Tom and Jim to join him in his venture. Some of his eastern neighbors also came to work for him, and a little settlement was formed which grew into the village of Okotoks. The brothers moved out and took up homesteads at the lower ranch which was south and west of Okotoks, where the C & E railway went through the valley.
TRIED DRILLING
He joined his friend A.P. Patrick in 1901, and they chartered the Rocky Mountain Development Company to drill the first oil well in Alberta. When they lost 70 feet of tools in the hole and were unsuccessful in regaining them, to clear the well, John lost interest in the oil business and turned his busy mind to Calgary and the booming real estate business of that day. His brother Will, a quiet reliable man, stayed with him, but Joe went on to the gold rush in California where he died.
Angus who came west to Regina in 1885, was a contractor and built the scaffold on which Louis Riel was hanged. He later went to Dawson Creek prospecting and died there. Tom became a noted explorer in Alaska, going on to the Madagascar Islands, and finally to the diamond fields of Cape Colony where he died.
STUDIED MEDICINE
Donald who stayed in the east to study medicine at McGill came west after one year's study, lured by the stories his brothers wrote, and went to work for John on the drive in the mill office. Finally after three years, he again returned east and completed his training in medicine. He became one of the west's pioneer doctors, practising in Winnipeg until the First Great War, and later settling in Vancouver.
John died in 1914 and Will in 1927, but to Dr. Donald Lineham the foothills country was still "back home" and nearly every year he returned to meet with the old timers, and talk about the early days and the seven Lineham boys whose love of adventure was legend.
To Donald Lineham, M.D., his adventure was the work he loved in medicine, and although at 75 he officially retired, he still took the odd trip as ship's surgeon up and down the coast from Vancouver to Kitimat. He loved the experience of seeing another part of Canada's country developed. He leaves only two children out of the four, (Lillian) Mrs. Swanson, and (Doris) Mrs. Ternen at the coast. His second wife predeceased him in 1953.
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B.C. Death Registration #57 09 009393
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