TITLED RANCHERS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20342, 15 September 1931, Page 14

TITLED RANCHERS.

PRINCE OF WALES LEADS. AN ATTRACTIVE ESTATE. From a Spicial Correspondent. VANCOUVER, August 19. Leading an ever-growing post-war contingent of titled rancliors in Western Canada, the Prince of Wales possesses at High River, Alberta, near the foothills of the Kockies, one of the best-equipped ana uiot.c efficiently managed pastoral property's in iSoitli America. Perhaps his best claim to notice in this connexion is the manifest improvement he has caused in the quality of horses and stock in the West. His 4000-acre holding attracts visitors from all parts of the woild. Next to the Prince, the best-known titled rancher is Lord Rodney io gain experience he and his wite. incognito, took a job as lined mini and cook 011 an Alberta farm immediately after his demobilisation at the end ot the war. After a they confided to their employer u-ho they were and bought 1000 acres near 1* ort baskatclieW Lo'rd Rodney was drawing from the British Government an annuity of £2OOO a year, wluca dated lroni 17»-, when Admiral Rodney defeated the entire French fleet off Jamaica, I . 192-1 the present Baron accepted £40,000 in full payment All the in ilk and cream supplied to the Edmonton, the provincial capital, it mo from the Rodney ranch. Ladv kodncy rears 200 turkeys a .year. 1 hen two sons, at school in England spend their holidays with them. Each jeai, Loni Rodney takes five young apprentice , mainly sons of titled families,, who start life for themselves later e- ( i'nPPed with the necessary practical expeli ""Lord Edward Montagu, son of tho Duchess of Manchester, now ™ £ on his own account, worked on tie Rodney ranch for five years g.o Due de Nemours, nephew ot the Kin-, oi the Belgians, and Hon. John Stanby, nephew of the Earl of Derby, arc similar examples. ... i • Lord Montagu struck oil on his property in Southern Alberta, near famous oilfield, Turner Vailej. Prince Erik, of. Denmark prior to I, is marriage last year to Miss J' ol * P<ooth, heiress to the Ottawa line Looth lumber millions, tarmcd ncai The Marquis of Anglesey has a cattle ranch in British Columbia. Lord Aylmer grows fruit for the English market at Kootenay, British Columbia. , _ Among distinguished Europeans arc Count Esterhazv, formerly Foreign Minister of Hungary; Count Holienstein, of Germany; Count Von der Kagen, of Prussito; Count Hamilton, a Swedish peer; and the Barons Joseph and Andre Csavossy, who served with tho forces of Austria in the wai.. The Csavossy • ranch is distinctive. Begun as a machine-milking dairy farm, it was turned over to wheat and beef when the equipment froze at 50 L-olow zero. A de Haviland light aeroplane and hangar complete their present outfit. Both were pilots in the v,ar. They came to Canada after an unsuccessful attempt at stock-breeding in Kenya. Among rioted absentee ranchers are Viscount Arbuthnot, the Earl of M.into (former Governor-General), Marquis of Aberdeen, the Duke of Sutherland, and the Earl of Egmout, who was a farmer before ho succeeded to the title.