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Crane, George A.
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George A. Crane was born in Liverpool, England and came to Alberta in 1905. He accepted a job in Morley with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and later began homesteading in the Hazel Bluff District. He worked at various places including a cement plant in Exshaw, Connaught Tunnel in Field, British Columbia, and a Canmore coal mine. In 1906 he worked with the geological survey mapping out homestead land.