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TRANTS CAME FROM SICILY IN THE 1100 S TO COUNTY DINGLE IN IRELAND
great grand father: WILLIAM TRANT BORN IN LEEDS MARCH 13, 1844 STARTED THE LEEDS ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (STILL IN EXISTENCE) STARTED TRADE UNIONS
EMIGRATED TO CANADA IN 1889 TO COTHAM ASSINIBOIA, SASKATCHEWAN (NEAR WEYBURN, SASKATCHEWAN) WHERE HE OBTAINED FOR COTHAM A SCHOOL, CHURCH AND A POST OFFICE WAS A SCHOOL TRUSTEE AND A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE BEFORE COMING TO CANADA WORKED FOR LONDON TIMES, TIMES OF INDIA IN BOMBAY WENT WITH THE PRINCE OF WALES ON A TOUR OF INDIA AND CEYLON IN 1872 MARRIED JANE TROOD OF BRIDGEWATER ENGLAND JANE TROOD HAD BEEN MARRIED TO THE HEIR TO THE COLEMAN MUSTARD COMPANY FOUNDER IN 1883 OF THE RADICAL FEDERATION WHICH HE PRESIDED OVER FOR 2 YEARS WAS ASKED TO ENTER PARLIAMENT BUT DECLINED FOR PERSONAL REASONS AFTER 1883 WAS SENT ON A PRESS MISSION TO FRANCE, SPAIN, ALGERIA, MOROCCO, USA AND MEXICO WROTE ARTICLES ON THE PUNISHMENT OF CRIMINALS FOR A SYNDICATE OF ENGLISH NEWS PAPERS WROTE OF HIS EXPERIENCES IN CANADA TITLE: FROM THE PEN TO THE PLOW
IN CASSEL'S MAGAZINE HE DESCRIBED LIFE ON THE PLAINS UNDER THE TITLE: PICKINGS FROM THE PRAIRIE
WROTE AN ARTICLE IN THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW: PRAIRIE PHILOSOPHY AND ANOTHER ARTICLE ON THE TREATMENT OF THE CANADIAN INDIANS ALL FROM A BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1898 CALLED CANADIAN MEN AND WOMEN OF THE TIME
HIS MOTHER WAS ISABELA HIRST DEWSBURY FATHER WAS WILLIAM TRANT OF LEEDS
grandfather: WALTER HURST TRUDE TRANT
father: WILLIAM FREDERICK CLYDE TRANT
SONS: WILLIAM HARVEY TRANT and DOUGLAS CLYDE TRANT
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