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John
Calvin Hutchinson
Mr.
& Mrs. John Calvin Hutchinson and Mr. Hutchinson’s cousin, Archie
Coats and family, felt the call of the West, then Manitoba.
In the
early spring of 1888, leaving the two small sons behind in London,
Ont., taking a small child, Myrtle, they arrived in Killarney (April
3rd, 1888). They made their first home one mile north of Killarney in a
sod shanty owned by Mr. Atkinson.
In the
spring of 1889, they moved to three miles south of Ninga where their
second daughter was born – Belle, now Mrs. W. L. Foster of High River,
Alta.
The
winter of 1890 Mrs. Hutchinson returned to Ontario to fetch out the two
boys, Mark and Edson.
In the
spring of 1897, the family moved from Ninga to Wakopa, living there
till they retired and moved to their daughter’s, living at Ste. Rose du
Lac, Man.
Mark
now lives in Calgary, Alta. Edson died in 1903.
Mrs.
Hutchinson died at the age of 86 in 1930 and Mr. Hutchinson followed in
October, 1934 at the age of 93. So the hardships of the west made
good hardy pioneers of those who left the east and elsewhere and
answered the call of the west.
Three
of the family are still living.
Mrs. A. F. Forsyth (Myrtle
Hutchinson) 22267 West Mensies Street, Haney, B.C.
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