Ralph Cruikshank was born on April 22, 1885 in Minnesota, USA. He came to the Similkameen about 1920. His home, the Cruikshank place, up Red Creek past the Collett place, out on the Coalmont Road, about two miles west of Princeton.
He died in Princeton, BC, on December 6, 1960. He is listed in the 1946 directory as being a farmer.
References:
1946 Directory’ Princeton Our Valley, page 207; Death registration (BC Archives)