He homesteaded in the Canadian North West Territorries in 1881 beside William Syme Redpath just north of where the village of Gerald, Saskatchewan is today. He later became a became a stage driver, operating a line from Moosomin to Redpath and on to Sumner and Kinbrae, north of Esterhazy.
In 1885, during the North West Rebellion in Canada, he was a member of French's Scouts, and Boulton's Scouts.
He was called to the bar in 1891, eventually Queen's Counsel, after studying under the tutelage of Edward L. Wetmore, then a judge at Moosomin and later the first chief justice of the province of Saskatchewan. The same year he was a member of the western rugby champion Moosomin-Cannington Combines.
Tennyson left his legal career to travel to the Yukon in 1899 for the Klondyke Gold Rush, but arriving late, the gold mines had all been staked and he decided to return to England. He had barely arrived when he died in London from bout of influenza, aged 38.
He homesteaded in the Canadian North West Territorries in 1881 beside William Syme Redpath just north of where the village of Gerald, Saskatchewan is today. He later became a became a stage driver, operating a line from Moosomin to Redpath and on to Sumner and Kinbrae, north of Esterhazy.
In 1885, during the North West Rebellion in Canada, he was a member of French's Scouts, and Boulton's Scouts.
He was called to the bar in 1891, eventually Queen's Counsel, after studying under the tutelage of Edward L. Wetmore, then a judge at Moosomin and later the first chief justice of the province of Saskatchewan. The same year he was a member of the western rugby champion Moosomin-Cannington Combines.
Tennyson left his legal career to travel to the Yukon in 1899 for the Klondyke Gold Rush, but arriving late, the gold mines had all been staked and he decided to return to England. He had barely arrived when he died in London from bout of influenza, aged 38.
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