Hertert Greenfield-Premier of Alberta Still 

 Owns the Canadian Fann\Vhich Gave Him HisStart 



HERBERT GREENFIELD, Premier of Alberta, was born in Winchester. 

 England, in 1869. There's nothing remarkable in his early history 

 just an average, bright, healthy boy with a good father and mother. 

 There is no record of awe-inspiring, childhood genius nor can he remember 

 being fired by any overpowering ambition. 



At the age of twenty-three he decided to try his luck in Canada and hired out' 

 as a farm hand in Ontario. When he thought he had acquired sufficient 

 capital and experience, Horace Greeleys advice to young men occurred to him: 

 reading literature on the subject, he was enthralled with the glamour of the 

 West and immediately filed on a homestead at Westlock, Alberta, north of 

 Edmonton. There he settled down to hew his fortune out of Western land. 

 It took courage and enterprise, but he had both, for he had had experience. 

 From time to time, he increased his holding till it grew to some 600 acres. 

 He both practised and preached mixed farming. 



Then responsibilities, which have a way of falling on the shoulders of those 

 best fitted for them, made a track to his door. He welcomed and entertained 

 them. For five years he guided the destinies of the Local Municipal Council, 

 and was for several years President of Provincial Association of Municipal 

 Districts, finally graduatng into a leader of the United Farmers' organization. 

 When that party won the provincial elections in 1921, he was appointed its 

 leader in the legislature, and being called by the Crown to form a government, 

 became Premier the highest political honor the province has to bestow. 







Department of Colonization and Development 



Canadian, Pacific Railway 



/) >^J.S -Perrrtis - Chief Commissioner. 



