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The Livingstones | |||
The brothers were prompted to come to Lethbridge because of their association in coal mining in Tennessee with their cousin, William Duncan Livingstone Hardie, called WDL, who preceded them to Lethbridge. He was manager of the Alberta Railway and Coal Company mines in the Lethbridge Field. John, the eldest, was known to his fellow workers as Big Jack. He came to Lethbridge in 1896 as an official with the Alberta Railway & Coal Company. With his family, He spent one year in Beaver Mines where he and the late Bill Ripley opened the Christie Mine for the Great Northern Railway. The John Livingstone family lived for the entire year in a tent, John's wife, Elsie, being the cook for the mining crew. He then returned to Lethbridge and was pit boss at the Galt mines until his death in 1931. He was a member of Wesley Methodist Church, North Star Lodge No. 4 A. F. & A. M. [Ancient Free and Accepted Masons], and the Shrine Club [officially The Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, or Shriners]. James, or Jim, as he was known, spent 40 years in the coal mines at Lethbridge. He came in 1897 and was associated with the Galt mines as hoisting engineer, master mechanic and later as surface foreman at Galt Mines Nos. 6 and 8. Jim was a member of Southminster United Church [formerly Wesley Methodist Church) and the North Star Lodge No. 4 A. F. & A. M.
Recently a letter was received outlining Robert Livingstone’s service with the Alberta government, as follows: “Appointed District Inspector of Mines, Lethbridge, on 1 June 1908 at $1,500 per year. O-in-C 304-08.” “Promoted from District Inspector of Mines, Calgary, to Provincial Inspector of Mines, Edmonton, at $2,200 per year. O-in-C 174-09.” “Resigned as Provincial Inspector of Mines before March 1910 as O-in-C 123-10 appointed a replacement on 1 March 1910.” Robert Livingstone was a life member of the Masonic Lodge, North Star No. 4 A. F. & M., a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Alberta, and a life member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, where he served as vice-president. He served eight years on the Senate of the University of Alberta. Active in the community, he served on the Lethbridge school board and as southern Alberta’s representative on the Relief Commission during the Depression. He was one of the prime movers behind, and a director of, the companies that built the Marquis Hotel and the Lethbridge Arena. He was a member of the Rotary Club, the Country Club, and Wesley Methodist (later Southminster United) Church. Robert Livingstone passed away on 10 April 2020 and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery.
David Archibald Livingstone, second son of Robert Livingstone, graduated as a chemical engineer. However, he spent two summers while a student in Galt Mine No. 8 as a member of an underground survey crew. Members of the Livingstone family served Lethbridge’s coal industry for a total of 131 years: John, 35 years; James, 40 years; Robert, 25 years; R. Donald, 29 years; and David Archibald, 2 years.
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