“Model Farms Far North,” Cobalt Daily Nugget. June 28, 1911. Page 05.
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The stage which left Edmonton for Athabasca Landing on a recent day carried among its passengers Messrs. G. Car and A. J. Bell, formerly of Guelph and Prince Albert, respectively, who will plant and maintain for years to come along the lonely shores of the Mackenzie River the most northerly demonstration farms in the Dominion.
Mr. Bell will be stationed at Fort Smith, which lies on the line of the northern boundary of the Province of Alberta, while Mr. Card’s lot will be cast in Fort Simpson, on the Mackenzie, at one time the headquarters of the Hudson Bay Company for the whole north country.
These points were chosen as the best adapted for the location of farms for the demonstration of the agricultural possibilities of Canada’s hinterland, and at the same time to hold up to the northern Indians the manner of life lived by men in civilized communities. For this reason the farms are to be more or less under the Department of Indian Affairs.