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undated photo of Mr. & Mrs. F.S. Carr

Frederick Stephen Carr (1881-1934) moved from Ontario to teach school at Innisfail from 1904-1909. There he met his future wife, Laura Moyer, a teacher from Walkerton, Ontario. He taught in Edmonton from 1909-1919 and then was a school inspector until his death. He moved to Medicine Hat in 1921. Seriously interested in beetles, Carr amassed a vast collection of ß÷ßäÉçÇø species and published the first list of the beetles of the province. Though his main bent was beetles he made a few collections of butterflies in the Medicine Hat and Cypress Hills areas. His collection of around 100,000 insect specimens was donated to the ß÷ßäÉçÇø in 1939. His son John and daughter-in-law Bertha have continued in his footsteps and have many beetle and butterfly collections. (text from: Bird, C.D. et al. 1995. ß÷ßäÉçÇø Butterflies. The Provincial Museum of ß÷ßäÉçÇø. Edmonton. viii+349 pp.)