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Type of entity
Person
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Byers, Jack
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Description area
Dates of existence
1881-1967
History
Jack Byers, 1881-1967, was born in County Durham, England. After serving in the South African War he came to Canada in 1903, and homesteaded at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan. In 1908 he took up a ranch at Valjean. In 1923 he joined the federal Department of Agriculture as a livestock promoter and worked for the department until ca. 1952. He was a charter member of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers' Association in 1913, and was manager of the Western Stock Growers' Association, 1933-1938. He and his wife, Lillian, moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1933.
For further information see "This Cattleman" in Canadian Cattlemen. -- vol. 26, no.3 (March 1963), p. 3, 10, 12.