The story of John Ware is tough to resist — a freed slave who made his way north to establish a ranch in what became Alberta — and is now the subject of a National Film Board movie being shot on the old Ware homestead.
Cheryl Foggo, the Calgary writer behind the production, previously tackled Ware's story in a play but can't shake the pull of the early settler.
"I think it's in part because of who he was. He's really just an amazing person and there's always more for me to discover as I go along," she told The Homestretch while discussing her film, John Ware: Reclaimed.
Ware arrived in southern Alberta in 1882 and worked as a ranchhand before establishing his own cattle operation. He eventually settled in the area of what is now Brooks.
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