Fonds F3204 - Charles Craik Whyte fonds

Charles Craik Whyte, 1889-1960, was born in Coupar Angus, Tayside, Scotland, and immigrated to Canada before the First World War. He worked for the Western Commercial Company in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and later in Calgary, Alberta. The firm distributed alcohol and tobacco products. When prohibition was passed in 1916 the company moved into coal mining in the Drumheller valley, near Wayne. A subsidiary firm, Central Trading Company, was established to operate a general store and Whyte was secretary-treasurer and store manager until the 1950s, as coal companies came and went from the valley. Whyte retired to Trail, British Columbia. He and his wife, Helen Scott Amos, 1887-1978, had a least one daughter, Robena Helen (Sheridan).