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02 January 2023

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GEORGE COOK PALMER and EMMA ELIZABETH née JOHNSON

George Cook Palmer was born on 6 July 1879 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England to Benjamin Charles Palmer (1852-1936) and Esther Cook (1855-1925). His siblings were: William Gibbons (1876-1962), Benjamin Charles (1878-1878), Norman James (1881-1969) and Janet Esther Harriet (1885-1975). He lived with his parents and siblings in England at the following locations: Bristol (1881), Tottenham, Middlesex, (1891) and Bedford, Bedfordshire (1901). George received his education in Bedford and received the LRAM.

On 24 April 1906, George and his mother boarded SS ‘Parisian' in Liverpool, England and landed in Montreal, Quebec on 30 April 1906. George was identified as a teacher of music who was heading to Bethune, Saskatchewan. He homesteaded the SE-22-21-23-W2 in the Rural Municipality of Dufferin. His grant was issued on 17 April 1909. His brothers William and Norman obtained homestead grants located in the same section in the same year.

George married Emma Elizabeth Johnson, likely in May of 1911, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Emma sailed from Liverpool, England aboard SS ‘Corsican' on 24 April 1911 and arrived in Montreal, Quebec on 30 April 1911. The reason for her trip was to be married to George Palmer, described as a music professor, and her destination was Moose Jaw. Emma was born in March of 1872 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England to William Johnson (1840) and Nell (1843). Her siblings were: Nellie Elizabeth (1868-1933), Harriett Amy (b 1870), Robert John William (b 1874), Ada Mary (b 1876) and George H (b 1880).

At the time of the 1911 census, George and Emma were married and living in Moose Jaw where George was employed as a music teacher. They moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1915. In 1916 they were living at 310 25th St E and in 1921, at 671 University Drive. George became the assistant to Dean Collingwood in the Department of Music at the University of Saskatchewan and later opened the Palmer School of Music where he taught until about 1950. In 1934, George was elected as the first Provincial President of the Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Association.

Emma died on 21 September 1919 and George on 25 May 1968. They both died in Saskatoon and were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. George's obituary can be found here.

This family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title 3rd Ave Palmer Tree.