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Connor, Hubert Dudley "Barney"
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Hubert Dudley "Barney" Connor, 1881?-1950, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and emigrated to Canada in the 1890s. After silver was discovered in Cobalt, Ontario in 1903, he was engaged in prospecting and mining there. In 1909, together with his brother Arthur Frederick "Larry" Connor and Cobalt friends Herbert E. Diffey, Geoffrey "Tom" Thomas, and Jervais "Jerry" Beamish, he settled near Chinook, Alberta, where the five each established homesteads. In 1924 Barney married Emily Whitfeld, ?-1929, and they had two children, Nancy, ?-1983, and Dudley.