Hugh Murray Shaw, right. Hugh Shaw moved from Oxford county, Ontario, to the High River district in 1871. He first homesteaded along the Little Bow River, and then later took up scrip along Mosquito Creek. While managing his own farm, he went into partnership with J. T. Cooper and established Shaw and Cooper, a real estate business. Mr. Shaw served on Nanton town council (1913-1915) and was elected federally as Union member for Macleod Riding in 1917.