William Lawrence, pioneer
The late Wm. Lawrence was born at Uxbridge, Ont., in June 1850 where he
spent his boyhood days. He left home at an early age and spent many
laborious days lumbering. He came west in 1881, landed at Emerson
and walked from there to the Glenora plains as it was called at that
time, where he took up land and broke it with oxen and went through the
same hardships as other early pioneers. In
1885 he married Miss Jemima Walker of the Marringhurst district. He
continued farming until 1919 when he built a cottage house in Glenora
and retired.
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He was a man who commanded respect, always
honest and square in his
dealings. He was in the Glenora school board for many years and many
have enjoyed his talk of early days, which would have filled many
pages. He was a great axeman and only a short time before he passed
away he walked to the bush to cut poles. He was a hard worker all his
life. His wife is still living in Glenora and his daughters who reside
in the district are Mrs. A.M. Lindsay, G. H. Brinkworth, and Mrs. G.M.
Simpson, and three brothers, T. L. of Cloverdale, B.C., Noble of
Glenora, and John in the Yukon. The late George Lawrence, former M. P.
for Killarney was another brother and the late C. G. Lawrence of
Killarney. C. G. was one of the early school teachers in the
Marringhurst district and farmed the SE 27-3-13. For a number of years
worked in the Real Estate business in Winnipeg with his brother T. L.
For the benefit of the readers who would like to look over the names of
the old settlers we have made a list of them with their home sections.
By information given the largest number arrived between 1878-90.
The earliest settlers and store keepers drew their goods from the
nearest railway point which at first was Emerson, then Manitou in 1884,
Pilot Mound in 1885, Greenway 1889, and Baldur in 1890. The first
number of years the hauling was done by oxen which would take a week
sometime to make the trip which can
be made today in a few hours
by a truck.
J. Wilson 21-4-12; R. Brown 10-4-13; J. Nelson 32-4-12; A. Percival
10-4-13; J. Fox, R. and G. McKnight 33-3-13; Jas. McLellan and A. Brown
4-4-13; W. Gray 10-4-13; J. Collins 10-4-13; W. & T.
Lawrence, Sam
Kink 2-4-13; E. Heaver 31-3-13; M. Olson 31-3-13; Mis McKnight,
N.
Preston, J. Olson on section 32-3-13; A. Gibson 6-4-12; G.
Lawrence,
and T. Fox 34-3-13; N. Lawrence, R. S. Thompson 35-3-13 J. Allchine and
Dun Bros. 28-4-12; W. Lawrence and J. Elsey 36-3-13;
D. Rankin
30-3-13; J. Crofton 29-3-13; J Cummings 18-4-12; J. Walsh
17-3-13; M.
Little, G. Graham, T. Feeley on section 28-3-13; J. Farquhar 12-4
-13;
Landerkins and C. Lawrence 27-3-13
J. Flanigan 4-14-12; D. Bently 33-4-12 J. Lawrence 26-3-13; J. Gray
25-3-13 J. Graham 33-4-12; John Montague on section 30-3-12; W.
Galloway and J. Montague 30-4-12; John and Jacob Nelson 32-3-12; J. Fox
and T. Graham 22-3-13; Jas. McClellan 18-4-13; D. McMillan and J. W.
Bellhouse; 24-3-13; John Standing and Alex McWilliams
19-4-12; T. F.
Graham 22-3-13; R. M. Wilson, and J. Greaves 20-4-12; J. Campbell
24-3-13; A. Burnett 16-3-13 D. A. Ross 6-4-13; J. Brown and
W. Turner
15-3-13; W. Houston 9-4-13; P. Buchart and L. Simmons 13-3-13; J.
Demster and W. Webb 18-4-12; W. Walton, R. S. Thompson 17-4-12;
Cavers
and sons. William, Douglas and Jim- 12-3-13.
Pioneer Women
We must not forget the pioneer women who played a noble part in early
days. We pay tribute to the memory of the women who came to this
district in the early days when it often meant they had to leave
comfortable homes to come here and live in sod-roofed shanties. How
lonely it would have been for many if the
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