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Wells, Egbert I.
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Egbert I. Wells, 1886-1969, was born in Hastings North Township, Ontario and moved to Alberta in 1902 to a farm at Wellsville, 12 miles south of Fort Macleod. He and his wife Isabella May Rollins were married in September 1914 in Lethbridge and they had four children, Margaret (Reasbeck, later Maxwell), 1919-2018 , Egbert Rollins, 1915-1969, Jean [Horricks], 1928- , and Allen Rollins, 1931- . They later moved to Calgary, then returned to the Fort Macleod area.
Jean Wells wrote an account of life on the farm in Morning Has Broken / Jean Wells. -- Victoria : Trafford, 2003; and Allen wrote The Winter Count / Allen R. Wells. -- Bloomington: Xlibris, 2012.