RANCHING IN CANADA

Evening Star, Issue 18998, 21 July 1925, Page 3

RANCHING IN CANADA

ARISTOCRATIC SETTLERS NOBLES ON THE LAND. Ranching in Western Canada is rapidly becoming the aristocrat of occupations, and a number of those who have recently taken up large areas of land in the great dominion are of noble descent. Prince Charles Philippe d’Orleans, descendant of King Louis Philippe, of France, and nephew of tho King of the Belgians, recently arrived there in the company of tho Hon. John Stanley, who was his companion at Oxford, to become tho latest addition to tho growing list of titled agriculturists in Western Canada, says tho ‘ Herald’s ’ Toronto correspondent. Ho is now on the ranch of Lord Rodney at Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, where lie will remain for a year as a pupil before acquiring a ranch of his own, probably in tho vicinity of that of tho Prince of Wales in Southern Alberta. Ho will have as companions two young sons of Lord Rodney, who recently arrived at tho ranch. NEIGHJ3OIIS OF THE PRINCE. Southern Alberta is being particularly favored by the aristocracy of Europe, seeking fresh outlet for their endeavors along the line of agriculture, and each year sees some addition to \he territory's group of titled ranchers. The acquisition and subsequent development of a ranch by the Prince of Wales is generally regarded as having been a prccedenl, whereas the Prince had several predecessors among the titled families of Europe, as In'lias had many successors. The Prince was, in nil probability, guided In some extent. in tho selection of the locality of j his ranch by reason of the close proxi- i mity of that of the Earl of Minto, j which had been established some years j before.

Years ago, Lord Aberdeen and the Duke of Sutherland developed ranchos in Western Canada, tho former at tho northern entrance to the Okanagan Valley, in British Columbia, and tho latter in tho Brooks district of Southern Alberta. Before relinquishing his property a short while ago Lord Aberdeen had performed some colonisation work with Old Country families and played a small part ill the development of the British Columbia fruit industry. Tho area, about tho Duke of Sutherland’s property has become famous as an alfalfaproducing region, and his land had the honor in 1921 of bringing tho championship for alfalfa seed to Canada for the first time. SOME FAMOUS ESTATES, hi the same High River district of Southern Alberta is the fine mixed farming establishment of the Count do Fonts, a French nobleman who located there many years ago, and is one of the province’s most successful agriculturists, North of this, near Calgary, is the grain farm of Admiral G. Como, D. 5.0., a relative of the Kin" of Italy, while still farther north is the Danish dairy colony of Markerville, where Prince Eric, son of the King of Denmark, lived for years and studied fanning. Other distinguished ranchers include Count de Rousao de Sales, member of a well-known French family who now sxiemls most of bis time in Montreal, and Viscount Arbuthnot, who formerly worked with a threshing outfit in Alberta, while tho viscountess did her own housework. Since the war, following the upheaval in Europe, Western Canada has received many refugees of the old nobilities, particularly from Russia, who, in tli© new land, are moulding new lives. In edition, many individuals of high rank in the Allied forces have, in the revulsion from war, and the desire for more tranquil existence, taken up the threads of civil life as farmers upon the plains of Western Canada.