Charles Ora Card

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Charles Ora Card, founded the town of Cardston, Alberta in 1887, as the first Mormon settlement in Canada, under the direction of John Taylor. This was motivated in large part by strained relations the Mormons were then experiencing with the government of the United States of America over the practice of polygamy. Card went to Canada as a fugitive from the "raid" having jumped a train following his arrest. Charles Ora Card was a son-in-law of Brigham Young, …