Fonds F3435 - Donald Graham fonds

Donald Graham was born in Scotland and moved to the Guelph, Ontario region in the 1860s. He joined the United States army, 14th Infantry in 1867 at Buffalo, New York, and served at Camp Verde, Arizona. In 1870 he moved to Manitoba and became a freighter and peddler on the prairies. Graham also worked at a sawmill in Fort Garry. In the summer of 1872 he went to Edmonton by Red River cart and later visited Fort Whoop-Up and was involved in the Cypress Hills Massacre. After some in Montana he moved to southern British Columbia, working on a Canadian Pacific Railway survey. He married Adelaide Genia in the Vernon district and eventually settled near Armstrong, Britich Columbia. Graham was the first reeve of the Spallumcheen municipality. Later in life Graham wrote a series of articles about his life and several were published in newspapers and magazines. One of his daughters was Adelaide McDiarmid (Durrand) (1891-1973) who lived in Edmonton.