Thomas Wellington Chalmers: NWMP Inspector, Surveyor, and Boer War Hero
Event Ended- Where
- Fort Calgary, Officers’ Mess - 750-9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta View Map
- When
- Buy
- Buy Tickets
- Ages
- All agew
- Website
- https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/thomas-wellington-chalmers-nwmp-inspector-surveyor-and-boer-war-hero-tickets-45664933044
- Contact
- cchs.communication@gmail.com 4039916046 (Chinook Country Historical Society)
Thomas Chalmers is one of the three NWMP Officers shown in Fort Macleod in 1886, in a large photograph hanging in the Officer’s Mess in Fort Calgary. After leaving the Mounties, he went on to lay out the “Chalmers Trail,” which gave eager prospectors access to the Klondike via Edmonton. He later died a hero’s death in the Boer War, leaving behind his story and a tantalizing mystery, as told by his great-niece, librarian and local historian Barbara Brydges