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by Jackie Flanagan |
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In 1910, seven years after they arrived from Nebraska with their six children to homestead in the Red Deer Lake area, Thomas and Ella Patton sold their half-section of land and started a market gardening operation in what is now the Pump Hill district of Calgary. They named the farm Fairview Gardens because the high points offered a splendid vista - the city of Calgary in the distance. |
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Continued in the Winter 1998 issue of AlbertaViews |