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Where did life lead for the children of Andrew and Martha?

Maggie (Margaret) was 19 years old when she came to Canada. She was engaged when she came and her fiancée was to follow. However, he never came. She never married. She became a devoted worker as a missionary for the Anglican Church. Margaret was a matron at Chooutla Indian Residential School at Carcross, Yukon in 1928. She was at Old Sun School, Gleichen, Alberta in 1935, and spent 8 years at St. Mary’s Hostel in Athabasca, Alberta. She retired to Victoria B.C. She died there on January 21, 1954 and is buried in Royal Oak Cemetery in Victoria.

Agnes (Nancy) died in Winnipeg during the flu epidemic on December 16, 1918 and buried at Moore Park. She was only 29 years old. She had been a secretary in Winnipeg. There is a story that letters from a loved one were buried with her.

Marion (Minnie) married Dalice Dayton Roney and farmed near Swift Current, Saskatchewan. They had four children – Wilfred, Phyllis, Margaret and Ruth. Dayton died on Dec. 3, 1960 and Minnie died on Sept. 25, 1966.

Martha married Wilfred Singleton. He was an Anglican Minister. They worked at Hay River, Alberta for many years and then at Wynyard, Saskatchewan and retired to North Surrey, B.C. Martha died on Sept. 3, 1973.

William (Bill) enlisted in the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force on June 7th 1916. When he returned, he farmed a mile south of the home farm. He married Noreen Loney. They had one son, Keith, who took over the farm when Bill and Noreen retired to Brandon. Bill died on Feb. 27, 1975 and Noreen on Nov. 16, 1993.

Andrew (Andy) was drafted into the army in 1918. Upon his return from the war he became a farmer and lived about 3½ miles east of the home farm. He married Hilma Esterburgh (who taught school at Moore Park). They had three sons – Ronald, Duncan and Hilton. Hilma died Aug. 22, 1986 and Andy died Apr. 17, 1989.

Hector was 6 years old when he came to Canada. He attended school at Marlborough School and Moore Park School, completing Grade 8 (age 14). He began farming at an early age. His older brothers, Andy and Bill were soon away. William left for World War I in 1916 and Andrew was drafted in 1918. Hector attempted to do the same, but he was sent home. He was needed to help his father on the farm. At the age of 16 he was firing the steam engine for threshing.

As a young man he formed a band and played for local dances. He could play several instruments – saxophone, piano, violin, accordion and trumpet. This was a source of extra income as well as his amusement. Often in the winter he would visit his sister, Minnie and family at the farm at Swift Current. His niece, Ruth, described him as a dapper, handsome young man who was a favourite of the local ladies.

Mary Olive Easter Grant			Parents of Mary Olive Grant
			Thomas Grant	Mary Ann North
Parents of Thomas Grant			Parents of Mary Ann North
William Grant	Mary Harris		Cunningham North	Mary Ann Marchmont

Hector married Mary Olive Easter Grant on Mar. 3, 1930. Olive was the third daughter of Thomas Grant and Mary Ann North. Thomas was born in Hornton, Oxfordshire, England and came to Canada in 1887 when he was 18 years old. He worked as a farm labourer in Peel County, Ontario. He met and married Mary Ann North. They had moved to Manitoba in 1897. There were four girls in the family.

Mary Olive Easter Grant

Olive was born Oct. 6, 1908 and grew up on her parent’s farm at SW1/4 18-13-16, Langford Muncipality. She went to school at Belton School and Brookdale School and to Brandon Normal School – qualifying as a teacher in 1929. She taught school at Glanton School until she married.

That same year the Great Depression began and Western Canada was starting several years of drought. Hector and Olive struggled to keep the farm during the next decade. There was a mortgage on the farm when he took it over.

They discontinued their telephone, and stopped using the furnace and heated the house from the kitchen stove and a Quebec Heater in the living room.

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