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 | ARMSTRONG, George and Jane
Status: Located; George ARMSTRONG died August 10, 1861 aged 76 years, native of ??. Wife Jane died March 3, 1865 aged 70 years, native of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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 | ARMSTRONG, Hannah
Status: Located;
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 | ARMSTRONG, Helen. Mary ARMSTRONG. Jane ARMSTRONG. Margaret ARMSTRONG. William ARMSTRONG.
Status: Located;
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 | ARMSTRONG, Isabella
Status: Located; Wife of Thomas ARMSTRONG. Died December 12, 1863 aged 37 years. Also David ARMSTRONG, son of above, died August 19, 1859 aged 3 months and 24 days.
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 | ARMSTRONG, John A.
Status: Located; Died May 12, 1871 aged 18 years.
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 | ARMSTRONG, Martha
Status: Located; Wife of Thomas ARMSTRONG. Died January 14, 1857 aged 36 years. Also her infant son died February 1, 1857 aged 21 days.
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 | ARMSTRONG, Thomas
Status: Located; Settled at Eramosa ??2?. Died June ?? aged 73 years. Native of ?? Scotland
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 | ARMSTRONG, William and Margaret WILSON
Status: Located; William ARMSTRONG died January 27, 1857 aged 65 years. Margaret WILSON died July 17, 1855 aged 65 years.
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| 309 |
 | Army Nurses at Camp McClellan AL, winter 1918
Mary Fogas far right
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 | Army Nurses at Camp McClellan AL, year unknown
Mary Fogas on left, second from top
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 | Arnt and Elen Eckle in 1910
Status: Located; Hope Township, Cavalier County, North Dakota
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 | Arrival of the ship Geo William in New York on 23 August 1853
Page lists the family of Christian and Dorothy Fiedler as passengers.
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 | Arrival record Alfred Kibble 1923
Following vacation in England in 1923, Alfred and Alice Kibble returned aboard the ship Montrose.
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 | Arrival Record for Ship Hekla in New York
Status: Located; The ship Hekla arrived at New York city on June 25, 1885. This record indicates that Bertil (entry # 144) is a farmer and Torger & Torvald were labourers (entry # 146 and 147). It appears to indicate that Gustav (entry # 149) is 11 months old and Godfred (entry #150) is 1 month. The family came from Modum, Norway and their destination is USA.
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 | Arrival record of Alice Kibble 1923
Following vacation in England in 1923, Alfred and Alice Kibble returned aboard the ship Montrose.
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 | Arthur Axtell
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 | Arthur Axtell and Della Ballard with son, Clarence 1900
Status: Located;
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 | Article written in "The First Years" M.C. Pleasant Valley #288
Mr. C. G. Holtzman
By C. Holtzman
I was in my late teens when the railway was displaying large posters, "Go west, young man, the last great west". I became interested and had a desire to see the prairies and to take advantage of the homestead privileges.
My brother had taken up the adventure in 1910, and sent all kinds of glowing reports of the opportunities in the west. So, in early April of 1911, I took up the challenge and bought a settler's excursion ticket to Winnipeg for $10.00, plus one cent per mile for the rest of the journey to join my brother in Saskatoon.
The accommodation on the excursion was not exactly "deluxe", just wooden slatted seats with berths for those carrying blankets, etc. It was first come, first served, with a stove at one end of each coach to brew tea. However, we were all like one big family with everyone in good spirits.
After a few days going over the pros and cons on homesteading; enquiring and looking over different locations, we decided to pool our resources and go homesteading. Our first trip to locate, though not so comfortable, was south west of Saskatoon, down what they called the Goose Lake line, on a mixed train that travelled from 10 to 20 miles per hour. The frost was giving way under the weight of the train and coaches rocking from side to side made us wonder whether we were going to be in a train wreck. However, we arrived at our destination in one piece. The trip overland to our proposed homestead was by a livery team and democrat. After going over and viewing the land we decided that this was good enough. We returned and we each filed on a homestead and preemption situated near D'Arcy.
After doing some bargain hunting we bought a team of oxen and equipment. We moved out to the homestead. Our first house was a tent while getting established, and breaking a few acres which we seeded that spring. After seeding we broke more land and then built a house.
When fall came we exchanged work with the neighbors. We got our flax threshed and earned enough cash to put us through the winter.
There was a big change in that first year of settlement. More settlers made the district a beehive of activity. Elevators were built, new businesses established. The Municipality started building roads in all directions. The hamlets became villages.
The second year we purchased another team of oxen. In 1914 we had completed our homestead duties and we each got title to 160 acres.
We continued another three years before getting the title to our preemptions. My brother sold his land and returned to Ontario. I continued until 1940 when a chronic ailment forced me to turn over my holdings to my son Stewart.
While in the pioneer days we had to put up with a few inconveniences there was no great suffering, and there is satisfaction in knowing that the vast plains of the west have added an economic value to this great Dominion of ours. It gives us a feeling of great pleasure to be considered among the pioneers who developed the "last great west".
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 | At the Fair
Status: Located; Jacob Wurm, Will Redinger, Edmund Daniel Wurm, William Rupp
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 | August Lein and Lina Dörr - Wedding Photo 1938
Status: Located;
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