Alexander Stavely Hill was the founder of Alberta's famous Oxley
Ranch. A British Conservative MP from 1868 to 1900, he travelled to
Canada annually between 1881 and 1884. "From Home to Home", first
published in 1885, is an account of those travels. Interested in
developing a new enterprise in a new country, Hill founded the
Oxley in 1882, persuading veteran livestock breeder John R. Craig -
later the manager of Oxley, who wrote his own memoir, "Ranching
with Lords and Commons" (reprinted by Heritage House in 2006) - to
drop his Canadian investors in favour of some English gentlemen
whom Hill claimed had much more to invest. Ironically, a bitter
feud later developed between Craig and Hill when the latter could
not (or would not) supply enough money to run the enterprise
properly. "From Home to Home" is a fascinating look at this
historically important time and place from the perspective of a
late-19th century version of an absentee landlord.
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