Surveyor, educator.
Born at Waterside, New Brunswick, on 26 September 1885, son of Haliburton Howard Hoar (1856-1937) and Annie Wilbur (1860-1937), he became a teacher in Albert County by 1904. In 1909, he graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a degree in Civil Engineering and was awarded the Ketchum Medal (1909). He went to Ottawa, Ontario where he passed his Dominion Land Surveyor exmainations (1911), and headed for Western Canada, where he would earn commissions with the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors (1912, Commmission #053), Alberta Land Surveyors (?, Commission #073, and British Columbia Land Surveyors (1916). He was employed as a surveyor with the Canadian Pacific Railway (1912, 1914) and the Federal Department of Natural Resources. While out west, he married Margaret J. “Madge” O’Harra (1888-?), and they had three children: twin boys Charles Ralph Hoar (1915-2003) and Donald Roderick Hoar (1915-1941) and a daughter, Doris Jean Hoar (1921-2011, wife of Mr. Williams). He settled his family at Calgary, Alberta.
A lack of survey-related employment immediately before the during the First World War may have motivated a career change, as he took up teaching in Manitoba as Principal of Eagleton School / Tilston School (1914-1915), Sunnyside School (1915-1916) and possibly near Roblin (1916-1917), but not at Goose Lake School, before he enlisted for military service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
In November 1917, he took his medical examination at Dauphin and enlisted four days later at Winnipeg under a false birth date (3 September 1893) and unmarried status, and directed all correpondence to go to his parents with no mention of his wife and children at Calgary. He was stationed at England until being demobilized in July 1919, upon which he returned to his family at Calgary and resumed work as a surveyor. He was active in the Alberta Land Surveyors Association, serving as Vice-President (1922, 1936), President (1923, 1930), and Director (1937).
He died at Calgary, Alberta on 12 June 1969.
Birth and death [Haliburton H. Hoar, Annie Hoar] registrations, New Brunswick Vital Statistics.
Death registrations, Alberta Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
1916, 1921, and 1926 Canada censuses, Library and Archives Canada.
Annual Report of the Schools of New Brunswick - 1903, pages A38 - A40. [Internet Archive]
Ketchum Medal Recipients, University of New Brunswick.
Sessional Papers - Volume 19 - First Seesion of the Twelfth Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, Session 1911-1912, page 51. [Government of Canada Publications].
Henderson’s Calgary Directories, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
“News of the city [Surveyors pass],” Daily Colonist [Victoria, British Columbia], 17 October 1913, page 6.
“Lethbridge representated surveyor’s convention,” Lethbridge Herald, 21 January 1922, page 7.
“Bradley is named Secretary-Treas. Land Surveyors,” Lethbridge Herald, 24 January 1936, page 12.
“Bradley named Vice-President,” Lethbridge Herald, 21 January 1937, page 7.
Find War Dead [Donald Roderick Hoar], Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
“Calgary flier missing,” Lethbridge Herald, 21 January 1941, page 8.
“What Council did Monday, March 5,” Drumheller Mail, 8 March 1945, page 1.
“New charges laid in Brant land deal,” Lethbridge Herald, 22 January 1965, page 1.
“Hutterites may appear in Lethbridge Court,” Lethbridge Herald, 27 January 1965, page 3.
“Hearing adjourned in Hutterite case,” Lethbridge Herald, 4 February 1965, page 3.
Obituary [Charles Ralph Hoar], Legacy.
Obituary [Doris Jean Williams], Calgary Herald.
Member Biography - Charles Millard Hoar, by M. L. J. Waschuk, Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association.
C.M. “Charles” Hoar, Alberta’s Land Surveying History.
Historical person search [Margaret J O'Harro], Ancestry.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 2 June 2023
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