Charles Ora Card (1839 – 1906) was the founder of the town of Cardston, Alberta, the first Mormon settlement in Canada. He has been referred to as "Canada's Brigham Young".[1] Card founded Cardston in 1887 — in what was then part of the Northwest Territories — under the direction of John Taylor, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This was motivated in large part by strained relations the LDS Church was then experiencing with the federal United States government over the church practice of plural marriage in Utah Territory and elsewhere. Card went to Canada as a fugitive from the "raid", having jumped a train following his arrest. Card was the first president of the Alberta Stake of the LDS Church, the first stake established outside of the United States. Charles Ora Card was a son-in-law of Brigham Young, and is the great-grandfather of writer Orson Scott Card.
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Notes
- ^ Richard E. Bennett, “Canada: From Struggling Seed, the Church Has Risen to Branching Maple,” Ensign, Sep. 1988, 30.
References
- Richard E. Bennett, “Canada: From Struggling Seed, the Church Has Risen to Branching Maple,” Ensign, Sep. 1988, 30
- Neldon Hatch, "A History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cardston and Area to 1950" in Keith Shaw (ed.) (n.d.). Chief Mountain Country: A History of Cardston and District (Cardston, Alta.: Cardston and District Historical Society) 1:173–182
- Andrew Jenson (1971, reprint). Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:297
- Don L. Searle, “Cardston—Harvesting a Pioneer Heritage,” Ensign, Apr. 1987, 36
- Melvin S. Tagg (1963). A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Canada, 1830–1963 (Ph.D. thesis, Brigham Young University)
