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    Giant Among Giants: Ernest C. Manning
    Giant Among Giants: Ernest C. Manning
    Giant Among Giants: Ernest C. Manning
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    Giant Among Giants: Ernest C. Manning

    By Ron Pegg

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    "My Mother listened to the gospel every Sunday morning and every Sunday afternoon. On Sunday afternoon, Mom's radio was tuned to the Barrie radio station. It was the late 1940s. At 3:00 pm, a program was on the air from Edmonton, Alberta. Ernest Manning was the preacher, and the name of the broadcast was "Canada's National Back to the Bible Broadcast." After sixty years of having studied this man and following his career, I firmly believe that the man who was elected in seven consecutive elections as Premier of Alberta, and who never faced a close election in his entire political career, a man who still can be heard on repeat broadcasts of Canada's National Bible Broadcast, is one of Canada's greatest people." Ron Pegg
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWord Alive Press
    Release dateJan 4, 2015
    ISBN9781770691896
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      Giant Among Giants - Ron Pegg

      Canadian.

      CHAPTER ONE

      Rosetown

      Ernest Charles Manning arrived in Rosetown in 1909. He was one year old. He had been born in Carnduff, which is in the southeastern part of Saskatchewan. His dad, George, had come to Canada from Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England. George worked on a farm in Manitoba before going to Carnduff to be a farmhand.

      He had been in Canada for almost ten years before he was able to convince Elizabeth Bessie Dixon, whom he had met while working in the butter industry in Dover, to come to this new land. Bessie had quit school at fourteen years of age in order to look after her ailing stepmother. She had then gone to London to become a maid for an Austrian baroness. She joined George in Carnduff in 1903, working as a maid on the same farm that George worked. They married that fall.

      The new couple hoped to develop land of their own near Carnduff, but they saw the crops in that area destroyed by hail three years in a row. Because of this, they decided to go further north into Saskatchewan.

      In the spring of 1909, George went to Saskatoon and filed for a homestead near the proposed new town of Rosetown. By 1909, the railway was getting closer to Rosetown, but had not quite reached that far. At Zealandia, he got a couple of horses and a plough and headed to his new homestead.

      When George arrived, he discovered with horror that this property was in the Bad Hills southwest of Rosetown. It was little more than hills and gravel. The little Englishman quickly returned to Saskatoon and refiled. He received a new quarter section five miles southwest of Rosetown in the Glen Payne district.

      Bessie, with her two small boys—Bill, who was four, and Ernest, who was one—took the train from Carnduff to Saskatoon, bringing with her their few family possessions.

      She was able to board a coach on a construction train that was part of the company that was building the extension of the rail line past Rosetown.

      The trip was not pleasant, as the coach was full of drunken construction workers, but the train did get the young mother, her family, and her belongings almost to the new town.

      The family moved into one of the few shacks available in Rosetown. George worked at various jobs in and around the town to help the family survive. At the same time, he built a fourteen-by-ten foot shack in a hollow on the new homestead. He had also purchased four oxen with which he began ploughing the land.

      Ernest, his big brother Bill, and their mother settled on the homestead that would be Ernest’s home until the mid 1920s.

      CHAPTER TWO

      The Setting

      In 1903, the people of Saskatoon were amazed when a train from Prince Albert actually arrived on time. It was only a decade before this that the train tracks had been completed to this city, which was quickly becoming the fastest growing city in the world. Much of southern Saskatchewan had been settled by people from all over the world. They had come from the social and economic repressions of Europe. Some—the Scandinavians, and to a lesser degree the British—brought with them knowledge of co-operatives. People came from Poland, Russian, Romania, and the Ukraine. Many were fleeing oppression, the lash and goad of czar, king, emperor, land owner, or factory overseer. To these people, Canada meant freedom. Saskatchewan is the only province in Canada where the majority of the settlers are from a non-English or French

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