Henry (Harry) Huish ^{1371,1993,1994,1995,1997,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015}

  General Notes:

This was taken from a tape that Cindy Huish made of Harry Joseph Huish speaking to a grade 9 Social Studies class at Chestermere High School , Alberta, in May, 2000.

Lillie and Harry married in Blaenavon, Wales.
Harry had worked in the coal mines of Wales since he was 7 years old and after his marriage and the birth of their first son Frances Charles, Harry came to Canada in 1903 and settled in the Crowsnest Pass with the land given to emmigrants by the C.P.R. He wanted to be a farmer but the land there had only 2 inches of topsoil and the rest was sheer rock. When Lillie came over to join her husband she immediately realized the futility of farming and moved her family into the town of Lumbreck where Harry went back to work in the mines. They had two daughters Olwyn and then Myrtle. ( Olwyn passed away while still a teenager in Calgary near the end of WW 1)
When Frank was only 14 years old (1914) after working as a lampboy he went to work underground as an apprentice miner. The first day underground the Hillcrest Mine blew up. 197 men died that day. Fortunately Frank was in an area that was not affected by the explosion and walked out. Harry was not so fortunate. He was found two days later with a Timber across his back piled with tons of coal. He had two broken hips, a broken pelvis and a broken back. He wound up crippled , bent over almost in two with his legs crossed and walked with a cane for the rest of his life. He was only in his forties.
The family moved to Drumheller and after one year moved to Calgary where both Harry and Frank got a job with the C.P.R.
Because of wartime and the shortage of men Harry was hired on as a clerk and stayed on until he retired at age 62. He passed away at age 77.
Frank worked in Banff for a couple of summers during the depression after marrying Mae Harris and starting their family. But continued with the C.P.R. when times got better.
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obituary, Harry Huish, March 6, 1947, Calgary Herald

Funeral services for Harry Huish, 75, of 3811 1st St. S.E. who died Tuesday, will be held in Jacques' chapel, Thursday at 2:45 pm. Dir. J. Gordon Jones will officiate. Burial will be in Burnsland Cemetery.
Mr. Huish was born in Somersetshire, England and moved from Wales to Lundbreck Alberta in 1906. He lived in various points in the Crow's Nest pass before coming to Calgary in 1916. He had been employed as a frieght handler with the C.P.R. from 1919 to 1932. He was a members of the First Baptist church.
Surviving are his wife Lilly, one daughter Mrs. J.J. Leam of Calgary and one son Francis Charles of Calgary.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Coal Miner, 1891, Blaenavon, South Wales. ²⁰¹⁸

• Occupation: Coker, 15 Nov 1898, Blaenavon, South Wales. ²⁰¹⁵

• Occupation: Colliery Hauler below ground, 1901, Blaenavon, South Wales. ¹⁹⁹⁵

• Residence: 30 James Street, 1901, Blaenavon, South Wales. ¹⁹⁹⁵

• Residence, 1906, Lundbrick, Alberta. ¹⁹⁹⁷

• Residence, 1915, Crow's Nest Pass, Alberta. ¹⁹⁹⁷

• Occupation: Miner, 1916, Calgary, AB. ¹⁹⁹³

• Residence, 1916, Calgary, AB. ¹⁹⁹⁷

• Residence: 603 15th Ave, 1916, Calgary, AB. ¹⁹⁹³

• Occupation, 1919-1932, Calgary, AB. ¹⁹⁹⁷ freight handler, C.P.R.

• Occupation: Freightman, railway, 1921, Calgary, AB. ¹⁹⁹⁴

• Residence: 1510 3rd Street, 1921, Calgary, AB. ¹⁹⁹⁴

• Religion, 1947, Calgary, AB. ¹⁹⁹⁷ Baptist

Henry married Lily Ann Taylor, daughter of Charles Taylor and Ann Lloyd, on 15 Nov 1898 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, England ²⁰⁰⁹.^,2015 (Lily Ann Taylor was born about 1878 in South Russia ^{1371,1993,1994,1995,2015}, christened on 29 Oct 1878 in Scottish Presbyterian English Church, Odessa, Ukraine,^2022,2023 died on 25 Sep 1952 in Calgary, AB ²⁰²⁴ and was buried on 29 Sep 1952 in Burnsland Cemetery, Calgary, AB.)