Background
Harry Evans was born on August 17, 1876, in Davenport, Ontario, now part of Toronto, to the Review and Mistress J.S. Evans.
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Harry Evans was born on August 17, 1876, in Davenport, Ontario, now part of Toronto, to the Review and Mistress J.S. Evans.
He was educated in Hamilton before earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1897. After graduating, he attended the Michigan School of Mines in Houghton, Michigan.
After leaving the telegram, he worked for the Manitoba Land & Investment Company for two years. Evans moved to Alberta in 1906 to prospect coal seams on the Pembina River. He moved to Edmonton the following year and managed the Pembina Coal Company until 1908.
He was the Canadian manager of a financial house in London, England, until it went bankrupt in 1912, when he founded the H. M. East. Evans Company, Limited., which dealt in bonds, insurance, and real estate.
He was elected mayor in the 1917 municipal election, finishing first in a five candidate field He did not seek re-election at the expiration of his one-year term.
Immediately before his term as mayor, he was president of the Edmonton Board of Trade. In 1925, he was appointed chairman of the Alberta Coal Commission.
He served as a financial advisor to the Government of Alberta from 1931 until 1937.
He was admitted to the Order of the British Empire on July 2, 1946, for meritorious service in war work. Harry Marshall Erskine Evans died in Edmonton September 20, 1973. Evansburg, Alberta, which he founded, and Evansdale, Edmonton, a neighbourhood, are named in his honour.
Evans"s daughter Sylvia Evans was amongst the few women who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World World War World War II