A. S. Dawson : First Resident of the Brooks CPR House

A.S. Dawson, chief engineer, Canadian Pacific Irrigation Division.  (CPID) Charles Beresford, First Lord of the Admiralty, British Navy Duke of Sutherland Lord Desborough

• Not much is known about the CPR engineer A.S. Dawson, but what little is known will be laid out here.

• Dawson was the first owner of the Brooks CPR House and was an engineer for the CPR.

• He also drew blueprints and sold “ready-made house plans”.

• A. S. Dawson was acquainted with the Fourth Duke of Sutherland.

• It is said that Dawson died in a sanitarium in Ontario and that he had a son, but it is nearly impossible to find anything on these subjects.

Bibliography

Brooks, Between the Red Deer and the Bow. Delday, Eva.

Brooks, Alberta, 1975. Print.