Bate,
G. Eilleen
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Biography:
Claims: Became the Town’s first female councillor in 1972.
Probable Significance:
Source: Reflections P.
Cossar, Andrew
Biography: (1855-1921) In 1885 he married Betsy Deacon.
Claims: Andrew came to Manitoba in 1880 and worked for two years
helping to build the first two bridges across the Red River. In 1882 he
homesteaded N 10-2-19. He was elected councillor for Turtle Mountain
Muncipality in 1886 and re-elected until the change of boundaries in
1890 put Range 19 in the Municipality of Morton. There, too, he served
on the Council and also on the Wood Lake School Board.
Probable Significance: Medium
Source: Trails & Crossroads to Killarney p. 221 /
Reflections p.
Foster, Andrew
Biography: (1867 – 1956) m. (1896) Katherine Cullen ( 1876
– 1944)
Claims: Lena - Enterprise district. 1888. Served on the
first school board of Enterprise, and later on the school board of Lena
when it was opened in 1907. He supported the United Grain Growers and
served as president of the Lena Pool Elevator Association. He was also
a member of the Killarney Consumers Co-operative. For several years he
was councillor. Though brought up a Conservative, he became interested
in the Progressive party and in 1922 was elected member for Killarney
in the Manitoba Legislature. Defeated in 1927, he ran again
successfully in 1932. Perhaps dearest to his heart was his elec- tion
as Manitoba director of the Canadian Aberdeen Angus Association of
which he later became president.
Probable Significance: Medium
Source: Trails & Crossroads to Killarney p.
241 / Reflections p.
Hannah, John
Biography: (1857 - ), Ontario. M. 1887 Kate Grieve
Claims: Farmer, municipal official.
Homesteaded in 1884. In 1888 he was appointed councillor for the RM of
Riverside, in which position he served for five years. In 1902 he was
elected Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Turtle Mountain. In 1905 he
was Mayor of Killarney.
Probable Significance:
Source: Reflections P.
From
the Local History Sources...
Born
in Bruce County, Ontario on 25 April 1857, son of Richard Hannah
and Jane Owens, he farmed before coming to Manitoba in 1882. Two years
later he took up a homestead near Pelican Lake, where he remained until
1897 when he purchased a farm four miles south of Killarney.
In 1887 he married Kate Grieve of Bruce County, Ontario. They had five
children: Clara Mabel Hannah (b 1889), Bertha Agnes Hannah (b 1892),
Howard Eldon Hannah (b 1894), Mary Kathleen Hannah (b 1900), and
Lawrence Hannah (b 1905).
Monteith, Robert
Biography: b. Ontario. (1843-1930) Married Mary Kilpatrick
(1838-1912) in 1867
Claims: Blacksmith, farmer, municipal official.
First Mayor – 1904 after the village was incorporated in 1903,
1884-1886, Reeve from 1887-1890 and again after 1893. Operated a
woollen mill at Crediton, Ontario. Monteiths moved to Killarney in 1896
and started a furniture business and implement business in partnership
with George McNamee and dealt extensively in the sale of farm lands. In
partnership with Jonathan Lindsay, they owned a threshing machine, a
hand-fed separator run by a straw-burning engine. In 1897 he was
appointed Justice of the Peace. He was originally trained as a
blacksmith.
Probable Significance:
Source: Trails to Killarney p / Reflections
p. 445
From
the Local History Sources...
Born
in Renfrew County, Ontario on 28 February 1843, son of George
Monteith and Euphemia Crawford, he came with his family to Canada in
1849 and worked for a time as a blacksmith. From 1874 to 1882 he worked
in the woolen trade then came to Manitoba, settling on a farmstead five
miles south of Killarney. He farmed until 1895 when he moved to
Killarney and, until 1903, operated a furniture business after which he
retired. In 1867, he married Mary Kilpatrick (1838-1912) of York
County, Ontario. They had five children: George Monteith, Robert Ernest
Monteith (1870-1957), John Herbert Monteith, Mary Helen Monteith
(1874-?), James R. Monteith (1879-1879), and Euphemia Margaret Monteith
(1884-?, wife of John R. Hodson). He served for four years as a
councillor and nine years as a Reeve of the Rural Municipality of
Turtle Mountain. He was the first Mayor of Killarney. He was a member
of the IOOF. He moved into Winnipeg in 1922 and died there on 28 March
1930. He was buried in the Killarney Cemetery.
Robert was a councillor, a reeve, Killarney's first mayor and a founder
of the Presbyterian church. The Monteiths moved to Killarney in 1896
where Robert had a furniture business until 1912. Mary died in 1912.
Robert stayed in Killarney until 1922 when he went to Winnipeg to live
with his daughter Helen. He died there in 1930 and is buried beside his
wife in Killarney cemetery.
ROBERT MONTEITH (1843-1930) was born on a farm on Thames Road near
Exeter, Ontario. He became a blacksmith but there is only one record of
his practice in that skill after he came west. One day he criticized
the way David Cullen was sharpening a ploughshare whereupon Cullen
handed him the ploughshare and suggested he do it himself. Robert
borrowed Cullen's apron and sharpened the ploughshare to his
satisfaction.
He married Mary Kilpatrick (1838-1912) in 1867 and later operated a
woollen mill at Crediton, Ontario. In March 1882, he joined George
Crawford and his family and Mrs. William Craw- ford (Mary Monteith's
sister) and her children on their journey to Manitoba. Robert filed for
E 10-2-17 and prepared a shelter for his family.
In August Mary Monteith and her five children came out by way of
Brandon with her brother John Kilpatrick. With their possessions piled
high on a cart drawn by oxen, they drove across the fenceless,
roadless, open prairie to their new home. In their first house, a sod
shanty with a dirt floor, the two youngest children spent most of the
winter playing on the bed. Later a log house was built from logs hauled
from Turtle Mountain.
The land was prepared for seeding by a walking plough and harrow drawn
by oxen. The seed was broadcast by hand, the grain harvested with a
scythe and flailed out. That winter snow had to be melted, not only for
household use but to water the oxen.
By 1889 Robert Monteith in partnership with Jonathan Lindsay owned a
threshing machine, a hand-fed separator run by a straw-burning engine.
Ernie Monteith was water man, W. J. Schnarr fireman, and James Tait a
member of the crew.
Robert Monteith served for many years on the Council of Turtle Mountain
Municipality, as councillor from 1884-1886, Reeve from 1887-1890 and
again after 1893. He became the first mayor of Killarney when the
village was incorporated in 1903. He was one of the founders of the
original Erskine Presbyterian Church and for many years an elder.
Leaving the farm in 1896, he ran a furniture business in Killarney, an
implement business in partnership with George McNamee and dealt
extensively in the sale of farm lands. In 1897 he was appointed Justice
of the Peace. He retired in 1912 and went to Winnipeg to live with his
daughter Helen.
Their second son, Ernest (1870-1957), graduated first from Ontario
Agricultural College where he received an honorary fellow- ship for
"Valuable Contribution to Veterinary Science" and in 1904 from Manitoba
Medical College. He married Catherine McKinnon of Killarney in 1905 and
practised in Balcarres, Saskatchewan, until he retired in 1928.
Rollins, Margaret (McGill)
Biography: d. 1948 m (1904) P.K. Rollins
Claims: In 1904 P. K. Rollins married Margaret McGill (1880-1948),
daughter of George McGill of the Neelin district. She had been
secretary for James M. Baldwin of the Union Bank, and in 1917 became
secretary treasurer of the Municipality of Turtle Mountain, a position
she held for thirty years. In 1946 she built the first cottage on the
South Shore Land Development.
Probable Significance: Medium
Source: Trails & Crossroads to Killarney p. 301 /
Reflections p.
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