Price Ellison was an English

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-born blacksmith

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, farmer, rancher and political figure in British Columbia

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. He represented Yale-East

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 from 1898 to 1903 and Okanagan

Okanagan (electoral district)

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 from 1903 to 1916 as a Conservative

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 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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He was born in Dunham

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, Cheshire

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, the son of James Ellison and Ellen Fearnaught, and was educated in Manchester

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. Ellison entered the blacksmith and hardware business. In 1873, he came to the United States, travelling from Boston

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 to California

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. Ellison settled in Vernon, British Columbia

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 in 1876. In 1884, he married Sophie Christine Johnson, the first schoolteacher in Vernon. After not meeting much success at mining, he again worked as a blacksmith for a time in Vernon. Ellison then purchased a farm, where he grew wheat and raised livestock. He served in the provincial cabinet as Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and then as Minister of Finance and Agriculture. Ellison was defeated when he ran for reelection to the assembly in 1916. He died in Vernon at the age of 91.

Ellison Provincial Park

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 was named in his honour. In 1910, as Commissioner of Lands and Works, Ellison travelled with a group of surveyors who established the boundaries for Strathcona Provincial Park

Strathcona Provincial Park

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, the first provincial park in British Columbia.