Born
December 21st, 1857, near where Alford now is, five miles from
Brantford, Ontario, and was a son of Daniel Green and his wife,
Mary Crawford. His grandfather was Peter Green and his
grandmother was Mary John. His ancestors came originally from
Green Bay, in Wisconsin, and his mother was a daughter of Peter
Crawford, the Indian Missionary, who settled near Caledonia.
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His only
surviving relatives were Daniel Thomas Green, on R.R.4, Paris,
Ont., who assisted with this biography, and Lloyd C. Green, who
were nephews, and Edith S. White and Nettie V. Doctor, who were
nieces, living in or near Brantford, Ont.
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Daniel
was educated at the Brantford High School, and by teaching to
finance himself, graduated from McGill as B.Sc. in the class of
1880. In November 1882. he passed his preliminary DLS
examination, and in May 1884, his final DLS examination. On
the January 7th, 1885, when his address was Ottawa, he was
appointed an OLS by the DLS road. And finally became an
Alberta Land Surveyor.
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After
his graduation, Sir John A. Macdonald took a deep interest in
him, and for a time during the Macdonald regime and while the
Marquis of Lansdowne was Governor-General of Canada, he was
employed by the Department of the Interior. He is described as
versatile, traveller, raconteur, with a splendid command of the
English language, and he was a personal friend of the Hon. A.C.
Rutherford, who was the first Premier of Alberta.
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He
married Mary Catharine Plumb, an accomplished lady of Prescott,
Onto She died in June,
1935,
leaving no children, but two sisters, one Miss E.A. Plumb, then
residing in Prescott, and Mrs. C.S. Anderson, then of 68 5th
Avenue, Ottawa, widow of the late Rev. Canon Anderson.
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In 1886
he was employed as a DLS surveying old trails near Fort
Ellice and Moosemin, Manitoba, when his address was Brantford.
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In 1887,
surveying old trails in the Calgary district, namely, MacLeod to
the Blackfoot crossing, along the Bow River.
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In 1888
at the same class of work along the Bow River, when his address
was Ottawa. In 1891 to May 2nd, 1893, he was assistant surveyor
in the Department of Indian Affairs.
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In
1896-97, in the Yukon surveying mining claims.
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In 1907
he toured Europe for six months.
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In 1908
he surveyed mining claims in the Brazeau district west of the
Rockies.
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When the
Calgary-Edmonton Railway was built, he subdivided the site of
Rocky Mountain House, and in
1910
he homesteaded three miles south of that village, and carried on
surveying.
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On
November 29th,
1935,
as he had lost his wife, he was bidding good-bye to his Rocky
Mountain House friends preparatory to entraining for Edmonton
and BC for the winter, but dropped dead in the hallway of his
hotel.
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His
remains were taken to Edmonton, where he was buried beside his
wife in Edmonton Cemetery, thus ending a varied, busy and
colourful life.
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Many of
his Rocky Mountain House friends accompanied his remains to
Edmonton for interment with Masonic honours. He was a member of
the Civil Service Lodge AF and AM, Ottawa, also Tocheon
Lodge No. 151 AF and AM Rocky Mountain House, Alta. He
was an Anglican.
Source: Association of Ontario Land Surveyors
Committee on Biography
