Sam Livingston

Samuel Henry Harkwood Livingston (4 February 1831 – 4 October 1897) born in Ireland, he came to Canada following an unsuccessful venture in the Californian gold rush of 1849, and eventually found his way to Jumping Pound, North-West Territories, in 1873 where he opened a trading post.

When the Glenmore Dam was built and the area flooded, part of the Livingston house was preserved and now stands at Heritage Park.

By 1874 he had relocated his operations southward to be closer to the trade with the plains Indians and was doing business near the Roman Catholic mission, Our Lady of Peace, on the Elbow River.

In the summer of 1876 Livingston moved with his family closer to Fort Calgary, the newly established NWMP post on the river.

[2] In the months before the 1885 North-West Rebellion, Livingston and John Glen helped found the Alberta Settler Rights Association.