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About Price Ellison
- Price Ellison (October 6, 1852 – December 10, 1932) was an English-born blacksmith, farmer, rancher and political figure in British Columbia.
- He represented Yale-East from 1898 to 1903 and Okanagan from 1903 to 1916 as a Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. He was born in Dunham, Cheshire, the son of James Ellison and Ellen Fearnaught, and was educated in Manchester.
- Ellison entered the blacksmith and hardware business.
- In 1873, he came to the United States, travelling from Boston to California.
- Ellison settled in Vernon, British Columbia in 1876.
- In 1884, he married Sophia Christine Johnson, the first school teacher in Vernon.
- After not meeting much success at mining, he again worked as a blacksmith for a time in Vernon.
- Ellison then purchased a farm, where he grew wheat and raised livestock.
- He served in the provincial cabinet as Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and then as Minister of Finance and Agriculture.
- Ellison was defeated when he ran for reelection to the assembly in 1916.
- He died in Vernon at the age of 81.Ellison Provincial Park was named in his honour.
- In 1910, as Commissioner of Lands and Works, Ellison travelled with a group of surveyors who established the boundaries for Strathcona Provincial Park, the first provincial park in British Columbia.
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