At the start of the 20th century, two sisters and a brother, Mary, Agnes and Andrew Thomson emigrated from Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland, to Calgary, Alberta. Their parents were Andrew Thomson (1842-1914) and Helen Henderson (1843-1932).
I'm hoping some descendants will recognise them. I'm including a PDF display of the three families and their descendants (anonymised for those probably still living).
Mary (1873-1955) (
https://familytrees.genopro.com/bonjedward/terkelanderik/Thomson-Mary-ind00299.htm ) emigrated first - she married John Swanson (1864-1945) in Broxburn in 1896, and they emigrated with their four children in 1907.
Next was Andrew (1880-1949). He married Anne Cameron (1876-1946) in Dunblane in 1909 and emigrated with their daughter in 1911.
Agnes (
https://familytrees.genopro.com/bonjedward/terkelanderik/Thomson-Agnes-ind00301.htm ) married George Fairley (1877-1973) in Broxburn in 1901 and they emigrated with their two sons in 1912.
Andrew (
https://familytrees.genopro.com/bonjedward/terkelanderik/Thomson-Andrew-ind00302.htm ) was a watchmaker who started a business, but later worked as a farmer in Michichi.
They had one daughter, Rhoda St. Clair Robertson Thomson (1910-1994) who married Norman Kennedy and later moved to British Columbia.
George Fairley became a well-known butcher in Calgary. His sons Henry Grant Fairley and Andrew Thomson Fairley took over the family business, which only closed in the late 1990s.
John Swanson was at various times a stonemason, farmer and travelling salesman.
His son William Lumsden Smith Swanson (1897-1976) was a jeweller who ended his career as factory manager at Henry Birks & Sons, a chain of jewellers. He enlisted in the Canadian Field Artillery in WW1, and was said to have had a romatic attachment to his cousin, my grandmother in West Lothian, who he visited when on leave from the front. Our family has a brooch he gave her that he had made himself (
https://familytrees.genopro.com/bonjedward/terkelanderik/media/BillSwansonjewellery.jpg). Another son, James Sinclair Swanson (1900-1966) was an optician.
Both sons moved to California in later life. A daughter, Helen Henderson Swanson (1901-1972) married Eber Rowles Upton, a dentist.
My mother met people from Calgary in the 1950's, and was surprised to hear that the Swanson family was so well-known there.
