Christian Marker was trained as a dairyman in Denmark. After receiving an excellent education in the dairy industry, he immigrated to Canada in 1890. His first job was in a dairy outside Toronto, but already in 1891 he began working at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa.

In 1897, the Dominion government appointed him supervisor and sent him to the Alberta District in the Northwest Territories to help farmers establish dairies. Among many others, he helped the farmers in the Icelandic settlement of Tindastoll establish a viable creamery. In appreciation for his help, they changed the name of their settlement to Markerville.

This book by historian Rolf Buschardt Christensen is a partial history of the birth and early development of the dairy industry in Alberta. In the process, we will follow Marker's career as Dairy Commissioner (1905–1934) and be introduced to some of the dairymen he met along the way.