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Ebor Cemetery NE 10-9-29 1910   GPS Reading: 14U  0332392 5513806 Former Ebor Store Ebor SE 15-9-29 1906 History Issac Haywood built a store in 1906 on Lots 1,2,3&4? - site on corner of what was “Main Street” - photo in “The Peanut” by Gilbert McKay GPS Reading: 14U 0330119 5518661 Butler School Cairn 1983 NW 33-9-29  Butler   History Site of Butler District 1886-1966 On CNR line Orma School #1401 – 1907-1917 Butler Unions School #1401 – 1918 - 1966 GPS Reading: 14U 0328520 5494340 Bardal School Cairn W 15-8-29 History Bardal is also noted on the Ewart Village Cairn First school on 14-8-28 1901-1927 1927 – 1967 (Closed) GPS Reading: 14U 0328520 5494340 Sinclair Mennonite Cemetery SW 1-8-29 History First burial - 1961 Former Bardal Post Office Est. April 1, 1894 on SE 22-8-29   History Postmaster George R. Lusk 1904 George E Proctor -  NW 22-8-29 Building now on S 22-8-29 - Closed 1918 Stone Fence ca. 1905 Property owned by Peter & Bridget Cassidy as of 1901  - enclosed two sides of a yard - ca. 65m each length - up to 1 m high and nearly a metre wide  at the base Irwin Farm   History House & Barn from the 1920's SE 18-8-29 Features

Former Irwin Farm House ca. 1905 Once home to Mel Irwin family

Former Icelandic Hall NW 9-9-29 Building Code Number: 143.J.1 Construction Date: Ca. 1900 Original Owner Name: - Built as Icelandic Hall - moved to Sinclair – used as a Grocery Store by Dan Toews, Wally Graham - moved to farm site as a shop Building Features of Interest: - a number of Icelandic settlers, originally from The R.M. of Argyle, moved to the Sinclair area in the early 1890’s - the old wagon trail from Virden, still visible on some properties, was known as the “Icelandic Highway” - Cemetery established south of Sinclair (In another  R.M.)

Buffalo Rubbing Stone W 15-8-29 GPS Reading: 14U 0328520 5494340 Bardal is also noted on the Ewart Village Cairn First school on 14-8-28 1901-1927 1927 – 1967 (Closed)