Sam as he was called is a very important Calgarian . He was the first person to call Calgary home . He was a business man a rancher/farmer in the area of Calgary . By 1860's sam & his friend Jim Gibbons had worked their way north to the cariboo gold rush this was one of sam's favorite stories & times of his life . He married his wife in 1865 . Her name is Jane Mary Howse . Together they raised a family of 14 children by 1888 they had 11 children already . There is a fish hatchery named after sam & a school as well named in his honor . There house stands in what was there land called Heritage Park now . It is a big wood log framed house . His original headstone off his grave is still at "Heritage Park" in Calgary Alberta .


Obit:
Sam Livingston was One of the Oldest Settlers in the Northwest

Great Falls, Mont., Oct. 19--Sam Livingston, one of the oldest settlers in the Northwest territory and well known in Montana, dropped dead in Calgary a few days ago. He was 80 years of age. He went to Alberta from Fort Benton in early days and acquired a considerable fortune by trading with the Indians. Of late years he has occupied a ranch on Elbow River, and has watched with interest the growth and development of the Northwest, on both sides of the boundary line.

Anaconda Standard (MT), 20 Oct 1897


Samuel Henry Harkwood (Sam) Livingston (4 February 1831 – 4 October 1897) came to Canada following an unsuccessful venture in the Californian gold rush of 1849, and eventually found his way to Jumping Pound, North-West Territories, in 1873 where he opened a trading post. He was going to settle near the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers in 1875 but, when the North-West Mounted Police arrived and established Fort Calgary, Livingston and his family moved further up the Elbow River to the current location of the Glenmore Reservoir. When the Glenmore Dam was built and the area flooded, part of the Livingston house was preserved and now stands at Heritage Park. Sam Livingston was an important man to Alberta's history. The Glenmore Reservoir gets its name from Sam too; Sam and Jane started a school on their farm that Sam named 'Glenmore School' after a place in Ireland.

Sam Livingston married Jane Howse in 1865 and had a more settled way of life. He also started a business which included trading for buffalo hides. By 1874 he had relocated his operations southward to be closer to the trade with the plains Indians and was doing business near the Roman Catholic mission, Our Lady of Peace, on the Elbow River. In the summer of 1876 Livingston moved with his family closer to Fort Calgary (Calgary), the newly established North-West Mounted Police post on the river. Here, in 1876, he began cultivation and with John Glenn was one of the first farmers in the area.

Livingston was a great innovator who brought the first examples of mechanized equipment to farming in the Calgary area. Some people call Sam Livingston "Calgary's First citizen", but George Clift King (the first man to marry in Calgary) is also given that title. In fact John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary area, in 1873.

Sam Livingston died in 1897 shortly after the birth of his 14th child. His funeral procession was 40 carriages long.