page_title: Grenfell, Saskatchewan
section_title: Prominent Grenfell natives and residents
hierarchical_section_title: Grenfell, Saskatchewan / Prominent Grenfell natives and residents
context_page_description: Grenfell is a town in Southern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is situated at the junction of Highway 47 and the Trans-Canada Highway 1 80 miles east of Regina, the provincial capital. It is 15 miles south of the Qu'Appelle Valley where Crooked Lake Provincial Park and Bird's Point Resort are popular beach destinations in summer and are accessed by Highway 47.
  European settlement from Ontario and the British Isles began in 1882 before the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the site of the town. The post office was established in 1883; "the town's name honours Pasco du Pre Grenfell, a railway company official."
context_section_description: James Dill, Member of Council of the North-West Territories 1891-98.
  William J. Patterson, provincial premier from 1935 to 1944 and Lieutenant-Governor from 1951 to 1958 was born in Grenfell as was Lorne MacPherson, the Canadian entertainment lawyer, founder of the Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation and independent film producer.
  Sir Richard Stuart Lake started to homestead near Grenfell in 1883 along with his family. Lake served as a justice of the peace and vice-president of the Territorial Grain Growers' Association. He was elected to the North-West Territories Assembly before becoming Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan in 1915.
  Frederick W. Johnson taught school in Grenfell before serving in the Second World War and then practising law for many years in Regina, being appointed to the Court of Queens Bench, serving as its Chief Justice from 1977 to 1983 and ultimately becoming the sixteenth Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan between 1983 and 1988.  Johnson was also first chancellor of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.
  Benjamin Parkyn Richardson, MLA 1888-1891, as also the first president of the Grenfell Agricultural Society which was established in 1884.  "In the death of Benjamin Parkyn Richardson, the district of Grenfell has lost one of its early pioneers and the town one of its most prominent and active citizens. Coming to what was then Grenfell in the spring of 1884, he at once identified himself with the interests of the West, at that time still uncertain, its future success- doubtful. The difficulties and discouragement of those early years, is still fresh and green in the memories of some who are still with us, but who, like him whose loss we now deplore, have lived to see the full dawn of a brighter day, and a truer knowledge of the land we live in." was reported in the Grenfell Sun, 1910. He was also the director of the Hospital Board, chairman of the Public School Board, and editor of the Grenfell Sun, of which he was a founder.
  Dennis A. FitzGerald born January 1, 1903, in Grenfell and graduated Grenfell High School in 1919.  FitzGerald became director of the United States Department of Agriculture's Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, as chief of ECA's food division. Paul Hoffman, his superior in the division, said of him on his appointment, "He's probably the greatest authority on food procurement and distribution in the world."
  John Hubbard of Grenfell became the first president of the Saskatchewan Beekeepers Association in 1923.  He organised the first meeting at his apiary in Grenfell in 1920
  R.J. Staples, born 1904 in Grenfell, was a prominent educater in the field of music.  After receiving his education at the University of Saskatchewan he taught at several schools in Saskatchewan followed by serving as advisor on school music courses and provincial supervisor.  He introduced workshops in school music methods and was instrumental in the introduction of the recorder in Canadian schools.
  James Thomas Milton Anderson taught at Grenfell sometime between 1906 and 1911.  He married Edith Redgewick in Grenfell before moving to Yorkton and Regina, becoming the fifth Premier of Saskatchewan.
  Dr. Calvin Bricker, a Grenfell dentist, competed in the Olympics. In the London 1908 Summer Olympics he gained a bronze medal in the men's long jump, and during the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm he won the silver medal, again for men's long jump.  Bricker was inducted into the University of Toronto, Saskatchewan and Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.  Canadian athletes who excel in jumping activities are awarded the Cal D. Bricker Memorial trophy.
caption: James Thomas Milton Anderson.
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