Bromley, John Hatton, Sr.

John Hatton Bromley, Sr. was born in 1864. He married May Catherine Lorenzetto on August 1, 1887 with Father Pat officiating. The wedding took place on the ranch that Bromley had taken up
halfway between Hedley and Princeton on the river side of the road.

Bromley left Ontario in October of 1883. From 1883 to 1884 he worked in the woods (site now in Vancouver). In 1885, he came to Granite Creek. In the 1890s, he took up Bromley Ranch where the Bromley mine now (1946) is. Mr. Bromley had purchased this ranch from Mr. Walker (who Mrs. Mary was previously married to).

John Bromley opened a hotel (1887?) near the mouth of Bromley Creek (Five Mile Creek?) on the old Hope Trail. The ranch was twelve miles down the river, which became somewhat of a stopping place later on after a wagon road was built up the river. In the 1880’s settlers beginning to establish in on the north side of river the district. It was also a stopping place for the stagecoach.

Bromley was a rancher in 1912.

He was a road foreman and received orders to complete the Princeton-Keremeos trunk road. He will be foreman on construction when work starts again (Caroline Allison’s notes).

They had a daughter, Eliza Ann (Mrs. Richard John (Bromley) Edmonds). Born August 11, 1888, who was living in Hedley, BC in 1946. Mrs. Eliza Ann Edmonds, after his death, married Ernest Haymand Frampton who died a few years before she passed away on January 15, 1957 as a result of a fire which destroyed her house.

John Hatton Bromley, Sr. died on February 24, 1919, likely on the family ranch near Hedley, BC.