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Biography Sam Livingston was born in 1828. He was searching for gold and travelled the American and Canadian west coast. Sam was the first one to be a farmer in Calgary and was the first settler to build a house.He had long hair, a long beard and he wore a red shirt and a buckskin jacket. Sam Livingston married Jane and had six girls and eight boys. He worked on a farm where he grew vegetables. Because he was a farmer, he pulled out the weeds and helped the vegetables grow large. He died in 1897. |
Contributions Sam Livingston is famous because he was one of the first farmers in Calgary. The first irrigation in the area was introduced by Sam Livingston. Sam Livingston sold extra vegetables to Inspector Brisebois and the N.W.M.P. at Fort Calgary. They put up a fence to keep the buffalo out from running over the gardens. A part of the Rocky Mountains was named after him.There was a school named after him: Sam Livingston Elementary School. The school was built in 1976 at 12011 Bonaventure Drive SE, Calgary. The school has 17 classrooms. |
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Lifestyle The Natives lived here first. There were some buffalo. The natives hunted the buffalo. Buffalo were used for everything. Father Doucet came next. He was a missionary and lived near Sam Livingston’s farm. Father Doucet visited them. There were new people living nearby the farm. When Sam’s children were old enough they helped in the garden. They pulled out weeds, so the vegetables would grow big and they picked the vegetables.One day a terrible thing happened to the garden. The buffalo squashed some of the vegetables. Sam and his family built a fence around the garden. They cut the small trees, stuck them in the ground and tied barbed wire from one to the next to make a fence to keep the animals out. The deer, the buffalo, the moose and the bears had to go around the fence now. The Indians had never seen a fence and they didn’t know what it was. The Indian people did not plant vegetables in rows. The Mounted Police came to bring peace, order and good government. The children grew more vegetables to see to the fort. They had a big wagon. Sam and Jane put the vegetables on the wagon. They went to the fort with Father Doucet. They met men and the boy who cooked. To become a N.W.M.P. they had to know how to ride a horse, shoot a gun and know how to write and read English and French. The N.W.M.P. were paid 50 cents a day. Many men quit the N.W.M.P. after two years because the work was too hard. In 1886 there was a fire that destroyed fourteen buildings in downtown Calgary. In 1886 they would pour water from a bucket when there was a fire. In November 7, 1886 there were no fire stations and firemen. |
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Reflection Dear Mr. Livingston,Thank you for the milk from you two wild cows that you shared with the N.W.M.P. and new settlers. I am grateful you were the first farmer in Calgary because people started to come to settle here. You were a great model for your family because you taught your 14 children to be good workers, getting along with others and to read and write. |
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