Published in the Crag & Canyon Newspaper
Banff, Alberta
June 26, 1953
William H. Fear is Buried Beside Brother George Here
Mr. Fear died in Victoria Wednesday, June 17, following a long illness.
Many of his old-time friends and lodge brothers from the Cascade Lodge gathered at the graveside to pay their last respects to their old friend. They buried him among the mountains he knew and loved so well, and with him they interred a part of the old west as it was before the railway went right across Canada.
The Fear brothers came to Canada from Essex, England, and in 1876 went to Toronto. Later they went to work for the CPR as hard rock men working on the north shore of Lake Superior. Work stopping on the railway construction, they then headed for the United States, via Winnipeg.
However, they stayed in Winnipeg a few months, eventually buying an ox train of Red River carts and freighting goods. They drove the outfit from Winnipeg, then Fort Garry, to Fort Walsh, trading the freight for furs and pemmican to take back to Winnipeg.
A few of these trips were enough, and they left Winnipeg to take sub contracts from the CPR, building the dump with wheelbarrows and shovels. These contracts were let out by the hundred-yard length, and when one length was finished, they would take on another.
Eventually, in this way, they reached the prairies and the foothills, where they started on the rock work contracting again. When they reached Donald, they met the railroad coming east, which completed the CPR railway in 1885.
They homesteaded for a time in the Little Red Deer, and then came to Banff where they bought a general store in the building now occupied by George Noble, a nephew. When business was poor, they would go to work for the government, and one of the many jobs they worked on was the corkscrew drive on Tunnel Mountain.
From that time on they ran a museum and Indian curio business in the same store on Banff Ave. until they retired in their 80's.
Few men in the mountains were more respected than the Fear brothers, both for their way of doing business and their great knowledge of the mountains and mountain lore.
With their passing, the mountains have lost men who knew them well, men who were constantly being consulted to tell what they knew of the Rockies and men who, after adopting Canada as their country proved themselves to be real pioneers that Canada so greatly needed in those early days.
Published in the Crag & Canyon Newspaper
Banff, Alberta
June 26, 1953
William H. Fear is Buried Beside Brother George Here
Mr. Fear died in Victoria Wednesday, June 17, following a long illness. Pallbearers at the burial ceremony were L.S. Crosby, T.W. Balderston, J. Watters, J. D. Hansen, C.B. Moffatt and George Saddington.
Many of his old-time friends and lodge brothers from the Cascade Lodge gathered at the graveside to pay their last respects to their old friend. They buried him among the mountains he knew and loved so well, and with him they interred a part of the old west as it was before the railway went right across Canada.
Banff, Alberta
June 26, 1953
William H. Fear is Buried Beside Brother George Here
Mr. Fear died in Victoria Wednesday, June 17, following a long illness.
Many of his old-time friends and lodge brothers from the Cascade Lodge gathered at the graveside to pay their last respects to their old friend. They buried him among the mountains he knew and loved so well, and with him they interred a part of the old west as it was before the railway went right across Canada.
The Fear brothers came to Canada from Essex, England, and in 1876 went to Toronto. Later they went to work for the CPR as hard rock men working on the north shore of Lake Superior. Work stopping on the railway construction, they then headed for the United States, via Winnipeg.
However, they stayed in Winnipeg a few months, eventually buying an ox train of Red River carts and freighting goods. They drove the outfit from Winnipeg, then Fort Garry, to Fort Walsh, trading the freight for furs and pemmican to take back to Winnipeg.
A few of these trips were enough, and they left Winnipeg to take sub contracts from the CPR, building the dump with wheelbarrows and shovels. These contracts were let out by the hundred-yard length, and when one length was finished, they would take on another.
Eventually, in this way, they reached the prairies and the foothills, where they started on the rock work contracting again. When they reached Donald, they met the railroad coming east, which completed the CPR railway in 1885.
They homesteaded for a time in the Little Red Deer, and then came to Banff where they bought a general store in the building now occupied by George Noble, a nephew. When business was poor, they would go to work for the government, and one of the many jobs they worked on was the corkscrew drive on Tunnel Mountain.
From that time on they ran a museum and Indian curio business in the same store on Banff Ave. until they retired in their 80's.
Few men in the mountains were more respected than the Fear brothers, both for their way of doing business and their great knowledge of the mountains and mountain lore.
With their passing, the mountains have lost men who knew them well, men who were constantly being consulted to tell what they knew of the Rockies and men who, after adopting Canada as their country proved themselves to be real pioneers that Canada so greatly needed in those early days.
Published in the Crag & Canyon Newspaper
Banff, Alberta
June 26, 1953
William H. Fear is Buried Beside Brother George Here
Mr. Fear died in Victoria Wednesday, June 17, following a long illness. Pallbearers at the burial ceremony were L.S. Crosby, T.W. Balderston, J. Watters, J. D. Hansen, C.B. Moffatt and George Saddington.
Many of his old-time friends and lodge brothers from the Cascade Lodge gathered at the graveside to pay their last respects to their old friend. They buried him among the mountains he knew and loved so well, and with him they interred a part of the old west as it was before the railway went right across Canada.
Published in the Crag & Canyon Newspaper
Banff, Alberta
June 26, 1953
William H. Fear is Buried Beside Brother George Here
Mr. Fear died in Victoria Wednesday, June 17, following a long illness.
Many of his old-time friends and lodge brothers from the Cascade Lodge gathered at the graveside to pay their last respects to their old friend. They buried him among the mountains he knew and loved so well, and with him they interred a part of the old west as it was before the railway went right across Canada.
The Fear brothers came to Canada from Essex, England, and in 1876 went to Toronto. Later they went to work for the CPR as hard rock men working on the north shore of Lake Superior. Work stopping on the railway construction, they then headed for the United States, via Winnipeg.
However, they stayed in Winnipeg a few months, eventually buying an ox train of Red River carts and freighting goods. They drove the outfit from Winnipeg, then Fort Garry, to Fort Walsh, trading the freight for furs and pemmican to take back to Winnipeg.
A few of these trips were enough, and they left Winnipeg to take sub contracts from the CPR, building the dump with wheelbarrows and shovels. These contracts were let out by the hundred-yard length, and when one length was finished, they would take on another.
Eventually, in this way, they reached the prairies and the foothills, where they started on the rock work contracting again. When they reached Donald, they met the railroad coming east, which completed the CPR railway in 1885.
They homesteaded for a time in the Little Red Deer, and then came to Banff where they bought a general store in the building now occupied by George Noble, a nephew. When business was poor, they would go to work for the government, and one of the many jobs they worked on was the corkscrew drive on Tunnel Mountain.
From that time on they ran a museum and Indian curio business in the same store on Banff Ave. until they retired in their 80's.
Few men in the mountains were more respected than the Fear brothers, both for their way of doing business and their great knowledge of the mountains and mountain lore.
With their passing, the mountains have lost men who knew them well, men who were constantly being consulted to tell what they knew of the Rockies and men who, after adopting Canada as their country proved themselves to be real pioneers that Canada so greatly needed in those early days.
Published in the Crag & Canyon Newspaper
Banff, Alberta
June 26, 1953
William H. Fear is Buried Beside Brother George Here
Mr. Fear died in Victoria Wednesday, June 17, following a long illness. Pallbearers at the burial ceremony were L.S. Crosby, T.W. Balderston, J. Watters, J. D. Hansen, C.B. Moffatt and George Saddington.
Many of his old-time friends and lodge brothers from the Cascade Lodge gathered at the graveside to pay their last respects to their old friend. They buried him among the mountains he knew and loved so well, and with him they interred a part of the old west as it was before the railway went right across Canada.
Banff, Alberta
June 26, 1953
William H. Fear is Buried Beside Brother George Here
Mr. Fear died in Victoria Wednesday, June 17, following a long illness.
Many of his old-time friends and lodge brothers from the Cascade Lodge gathered at the graveside to pay their last respects to their old friend. They buried him among the mountains he knew and loved so well, and with him they interred a part of the old west as it was before the railway went right across Canada.
The Fear brothers came to Canada from Essex, England, and in 1876 went to Toronto. Later they went to work for the CPR as hard rock men working on the north shore of Lake Superior. Work stopping on the railway construction, they then headed for the United States, via Winnipeg.
However, they stayed in Winnipeg a few months, eventually buying an ox train of Red River carts and freighting goods. They drove the outfit from Winnipeg, then Fort Garry, to Fort Walsh, trading the freight for furs and pemmican to take back to Winnipeg.
A few of these trips were enough, and they left Winnipeg to take sub contracts from the CPR, building the dump with wheelbarrows and shovels. These contracts were let out by the hundred-yard length, and when one length was finished, they would take on another.
Eventually, in this way, they reached the prairies and the foothills, where they started on the rock work contracting again. When they reached Donald, they met the railroad coming east, which completed the CPR railway in 1885.
They homesteaded for a time in the Little Red Deer, and then came to Banff where they bought a general store in the building now occupied by George Noble, a nephew. When business was poor, they would go to work for the government, and one of the many jobs they worked on was the corkscrew drive on Tunnel Mountain.
From that time on they ran a museum and Indian curio business in the same store on Banff Ave. until they retired in their 80's.
Few men in the mountains were more respected than the Fear brothers, both for their way of doing business and their great knowledge of the mountains and mountain lore.
With their passing, the mountains have lost men who knew them well, men who were constantly being consulted to tell what they knew of the Rockies and men who, after adopting Canada as their country proved themselves to be real pioneers that Canada so greatly needed in those early days.
Published in the Crag & Canyon Newspaper
Banff, Alberta
June 26, 1953
William H. Fear is Buried Beside Brother George Here
Mr. Fear died in Victoria Wednesday, June 17, following a long illness. Pallbearers at the burial ceremony were L.S. Crosby, T.W. Balderston, J. Watters, J. D. Hansen, C.B. Moffatt and George Saddington.
Many of his old-time friends and lodge brothers from the Cascade Lodge gathered at the graveside to pay their last respects to their old friend. They buried him among the mountains he knew and loved so well, and with him they interred a part of the old west as it was before the railway went right across Canada.
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