Grew up working on railroad & logging. Joined a Lodge called "Apprentice Boys". Moved to Saskatchewan in 1886 with brother John and sisters Eliza and Hattie. Took up homestead rights on Section 10_11_31. Worked in the Brandon District for 3 years to get money and equipemtn to break and form homestead.

First home on the Prairies was a shack, shared with his brother John, it was north of Fairlight. They farmed together as partners and were known all their farming lives as 'Adair Brothers'. Tom drove from Brandon with a team of oxen and a buckboard. Like many others in those days they hauled the winter fire wood from Moose Mountain, a distance of 50 miles. They hauled their grain to Elkhorn and Fleming.

After he married Elizabeth he made a home and moved to Manitoba, thus farming land in both Manitba and Saskatchewan, in the Lippentot Distr NW 1/4 6_11_29 and NC 1/2 7_11_30. The complete structure of the frame house still stood as at 1977, but to store grain.

Thom was for many years a Trustee of Woodville School, and a member of Lippentot Hockey and Baseball Teams. In his younger days, he was also a member of the Lippentot Rifle Club, for which he had many awards - the rifle range being on the same section as their farm.

The Adair brothers were among the first to have a thresing outfit, their first being a portable steam outfit. Theses machines required many men to operate and thresh (about 20). Tom had a 2nd class engineers certificate. They also had a well-drilling outfit. They drilled many wells around the country, but never found water on their farm.

Tom and Elizabeth's home was the scene of the 'Adair Family Picnic', first Friday in July for many years.

Elizabeth died Aug 8, 1914 leaving Tom with five small children. He managed with the help of housekeepers, relatives and good neighbours until December 1915 when he married Margaret McNeil