Saskatchewan Gen Web Project - SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE by JOHN HAWKES Vol 1II 1924


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JAMES A. HARRIS.
Prince Albert numbers among her foremost business men and enter- prising citizens James A. Harris, secretary-treasurer of the Rural Mu- nicipality of Russia. He was born in Leicester, England, on the 29th of June, 1882, a son of Enoch and Ellen (B~rd) Harris, the former a native of England and the latter of Kildare, Ireland. The father lived in his native country throughout his life. He was a shoe finisher and silk weaver by trade and eventually engaged in the manufacture of shoes on his own account. He was very successful and was living retired at the time of his death in 1890. Mrs. Harris died in 1917. James A. Harris received his education in the public schools of Lei- cester, England, and after putting his textbooks aside worked in a box factory for about twelve months. He then became a stoker or fireman and enlisted in the army at the age of fifteen years. He saw service in Egypt, South Africa, and Zululand, remaining in the army six years. For the next three years he was engaged in coal mining and then clerked in a real estate office for a time. In 1907 he came to Canada and located at Bromptonville, Quebec, where for six months he was employed in the pulp works. At the termination of that time he went to the United States for a few months and then returned to Quebec and located at Thet- ford, being employed in the asbestos mines for two years. In 1910 he came to Prince Albert and for two years worked at the city hall as care- taker. He then acquired a homestead six miles north of this town. and operated that land until the outbreak of the Great war, when he again enlisted and became a member of the Twenty-eighth Battalion. He was transferred to the Princess Pat.Regiment in 1914 and went overseas in January of the following year. He was wounded in that year and soon afterward received his honorable discharge from the army. Returning to Prince Albert he went on the farm for a few months, regained his health and re-enlisted at Prince Albert, becoming a sergeant instructor. He was active in that capacity at Regina, Camp Hughes and Toronto until October, 1918, when he was again honorably discharged from the army. He then accepted a position with Pat Burns & Company and a short time later worked in the office of the Rural Municipality of Russia, with Mr. H. W. Reid. Subsequently he received his appointment as secretary-treasurer of this municipality and has since been active in this important position. Mr. Harris still owns the h9mestead. In August of the year 1903 Mr. Harris was married to Miss Laura E.Briggs, a native of Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire, England. To their union four children have been born: Louis, Myrtle, Ivy and Harry. Mr. Harris is a Liberal in his political views and he was reared in the faith of the Anglican church. He is a member of the Great War Veterans Association and the Imperial Veterans in Canada. Mr. Harris is an enthusiastic boxer and prior to coming to this country was very active in that sport. He likewise did much boxing while serving with the Twenty-eighth Battalion and won the boxing championship of that bat- talion. Mr. Harris is a man of keen insight and determination and well merits the position he has gained among Prince Albert's foremost citizens. Bibliography follows:


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THE STORY
OF
SASKATCHEWAN
AND ITS PEOPLE




By JOHN HAWKES
Legislative Librarian



Volume III
Illustrated



CHICAGO - REGINA
THE S.J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1924



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