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From: "Karen S" <>
Subject: RE: [CAN-Manitoba] book "Dauphin Valley Spans The Years"
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:57:06 -0500


Hello Shirl,

Issac Spillett came to Dauphin in the spring of 1893 from Alliston, Ontario
where he had been engaged as a brick kiln burner adn burned lime stone; he
was also a good carpenter. The Spilletts had a family of two girls and four
boys.

The homestead was located on S.E. 18-24-19. About five years later they
moved to N.W. 7-24-19 where he engaged in farming and bee-keeping. The
latter industry occupied him until 1930 when he switched to a venture in
mink raising; he later discontinued farming, renting out his land, and
devoted all his time to the raising of mink.

Gavin Strang was born in Bosfield, Kilbride, Scotland in 1857 and came to
Canada in 1881 by way of Montreal. He married Martha Fee in 1884 and this
was the first wedding ceremony among the white population of the area. They
had seven children: Katherine Isabella, Margaret Jennie, William, Sarah, adn
Edward. In 1917 they purchased the R.D. Gibson farm.

Hope this helps,
Karen


>From: "Shirl Biccum" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: RE: [CAN-Manitoba] book "Dauphin Valley Spans The Years"
>Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:34:24 -0700
>
>I would be very interested in the info. on the Strang and Spillett families
>as they are my family.
>I also have information on the Wishart family in a book called "Tales of
>the
>Touchwoods" which has info. on the time the Strangs and Wisharts
>homesteaded
>in the Northwest Territories(now Saskatchewan) before they re-located to
>Manitoba.
>
>Shirl Biccum, nee Strang,in Redmond,Washington
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karen S [mailto:]
>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:18 PM
>To:
>Subject: [CAN-Manitoba] book "Dauphin Valley Spans The Years"
>
>Hello List,
> This book was published in 1970 by the Dauphin Historical Society. It
>includes pioneer stories of the following families.
>page 97 The WINTERS family
>page 101 Robert WISHART family
>page 103 J.J. DUNFIELD
>page 103 The MCLAUGHLIN family
>page 104 Jacob CATHERS
>page 105 DURSTON family
>page 108 ESPLEN family
>page 109 Alex BIRSS family
>page 110 The BARKER family
>page 111 The HASSARD family
>page 112 The BOUGHEN family
>page 113 Robert CRUISE
>page 114 Theodore A. BURROWS
>page 115 The WARD family
>page 116 David BRUCE
>page 116 Alfred MAYNARD
>page 116 The SUTHERLAND family
>page 117 Dr. Henry (Harry) MACNEILL
>page 118 Herbert COULSON
>page 119 MCDONALD family
>page 120 Albert GRAY
>page 120 Bob COCKERTON
>page 120 Albert NEX
>page 120 Fred NEX
>page 120 Isaac SPILLETT
>page 120 Frank KILTY
>page 121 Joseph P. CLARKE
>page 123 BEATTIE family
>page 123 PILGRIM family
>page 124 Alvah SPENCER
>page 124 Matthew LEE
>page 124 STRANG family
>page 126 R.D. GIBSON
>page 126 Isaac ASHE
>page 126 Walter J. WICKES
>page 127 CHUTE family
>page 128 MALCOLM family
>page 130 James A. CAMPBELL
>page 131 MCKILLOP and GILLIES families
>page 133 MCKERCHAR family
>page 135 Paul WOOD
>page 135 Chris FELKER
>page 135 George YEAMAN
>page 135 Charles YEAMAN
>page 136 John SMITH
>page 136 William GILBERT
>page 136 John HARTLEY
>page 136 Thomas HADSHELL
>page 136 William FERRELL
>page 136 Bob CATHERS
>page 137 Henry G. HUGHES
>page 138 Andy SANDGREN
>page 138 John BOYD
>page 138 William TIMM
>page 138 Wesley WATSON
>page 139 William JONES
>page 139 John MCDONALD
>page 139 Robert MCLEAN
>page 139 Isaiah PITTS
>page 141 William HUESTON
>
>I'll be happy to do look ups from this book while I have it from the
>library
>
>but only for a short time.
>Karen
>
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