T. C. Power and Bro was a prominent mercantile business started by Thomas Charles Power

Thomas Charles Power

Thomas Charles Power was a Republican senator from Montana and businessman. He was born near Dubuque, Iowa on May 22, 1839. He attended public school and graduated from Sinsinawa College with a degree in engineering. He then worked as a surveyor in Dakota until 1860...

 in Fort Benton, Montana

Fort Benton, Montana

Fort Benton is a city in and the county seat of Chouteau County, Montana, United States. A portion of the city was designated as a National Historic Landmark District in 1961. Established a full generation beforethe U.S...

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Daniel Webster Marsh

Daniel Webster Marsh

Daniel Webster Marsh was a businessman and mayor of Calgary, Alberta. He was born in Hudson, New Hampshire to parents Enoch Sawyer March and Margaret Whittier....

 helped establish the firm in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. Marsh opened up a store in Fort Walsh, Saskatchewan

Fort Walsh

Fort Walsh is a National Historic Site of Canada that was a North-West Mounted Police fort and the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre. Administered by Parks Canada, it forms a constituent part of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park....

 in 1876. As the Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

 moved west, Marsh saw the opportunity to open up new stores. He opened up their stores in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan

Maple Creek, Saskatchewan

-History:After the North-West Mounted Police had been established at Fort Walsh, settlers began to explore the Cypress Hills area, living along the creeks and doing small-scale ranching. The Department of the Interior was operating a First Nations farm on the Maple Creek, a few miles south from...

 in 1883 and Calgary, Alberta in 1884. From 1884 to 1893 he managed the store in Calgary, while is nephew, Horace A. Greeley managed the store in Maple Creek.