The R.M.
of Pipestone
A decade of building. Many schools, churches, businesses are
established as settlers get established. The first substantial brick
houses are built.
1890
The first “Reston” Post office is located on William Bulloch’s land.
Their home also housed the first library. The name of Reston was
suggested by the Milliken family. It was the name of the little town in
Berwickshire, Scotland near which the Millikens had lived before coming
to Canada.
Lambton School #763 opens.
1891
Hillview School opens in the spring in a granary on NW 12-8-28. A
school is built later that year. (Closed 1963)
1892
The CPR reaches the new village of Pipestone on Dec. 2. Mr.
Richardson immediately opens a store in a tent, which is later moved to
Main Street.
The railroad reaches Reston. The first railroad station was a freight
car set down at a point nearly opposite Main Street. The first agent
was Cleland Jones who came in to town on one of the work trains. The
first passenger train came in to Reston on Dec. 2, 1892.The first
merchant was James Campbell whose descendants still live around
Sinclair. He put a building on the east side of Main Street during the
fall
William Busby builds a lumberyard (Pioneer Lumber) . The first freight
delivered when the railroad line was opened was a car of lumber.
The first facility for handling grain in Reston is a warehouse built in
the fall of 1892 by Deyell and Mann of Souris.
Hillside School District #377 established on NW 21-9-26.
Wheat from Laggan Farm (William McDonald) takes top honours at an
International Miller’s Convention in Glasgow, Scotland.
The first settler in Sinclair: John Milton
Brandon Sun, May 5, 1892
1893
Reston Post Office is moved in to the new village
The Reston Lake of the Woods Elevator is built – it operated until it
burned in 1950.
Pipestone Union Church is built on 2nd Ave & 6th St. in the
Pipestone. Initially a Presbyterian Congregation, it was also
used by Methodists.
Pipestone School classes are held in Rattray's Hall, with Mr. J. G.
Rattray the first teacher. Classes were later held in the Church until
the school was built.
1894
Huston School #770 opens on SW 2-6-27.
Bardal Post Office is established April 12 on SE 22-8-29 (Closed 1918).
Postmaster George R. Lusk operated it out of a small frame building.
Other reports indicate it was once located on SE 27-8-29
Bardal Post Office building, 2011.
1895
The Coal Dock was an essential part of the
railway infrastructure.
1896
Elm Valley school opens on SW 2-9-28. (Later moved to Woodnorth
for use as a Sunday School.)
W.R. Guthrie is Chairman of first meeting of Lanark School.
Reston Methodist Church built.
Methodist Church & Parsonage shown here in
1905.
1897
Reston Cemetery established by the R.M. of Pipestone.
1898
Belleview School built on SE 36-8-26. Often used as a Church &
Sunday School.
Crescent School established on NE 14-6-29. (Moved to NE 30-7-25 in
1920. Rennovated inside 1960’s. Closed 1970. Moved to Pipestone Fair
Grounds site after 1980)
Humberstone School opened north of Pipestone.
John Milton appointed Sinclair Postmaster, also adds a stock of
groceries.
Council receives an order from the medical health officer to pay A. V.
Parker $115.00 for compensation for clothes destroyed because of
diphtheria.
1899
Robert Ayers is the first dentist in the Reston district.
Prarie Rose School #967 opens in May. The first school year ran six
months.
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