Individual Notes

Note for: Kathleen Elizabeth Johnn, 1885 - 27 MAR 1937 Index

Burial:
     Date:   1937
     Place:   Sundre and District Cemetery, Sundre, Alberta, Canada'

Individual Notes

Note for: June Machan, 21 JUN 1911 - BEF 1985 Index

Census:
     Date:   1987
     Place:   Elk Rapids, Antrim County, Michigan, USA

Individual Notes

Note for: Robert M. Somerville, 5 JUN 1854 - 28 MAY 1929 Index

Census:
     Date:   1901
     Place:   Lanark Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Burial:
     Date:   UNKNOWN
     Place:   Greenwood Cemetery, Lanark Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Individual Notes

Note for: William Somerville, 2 NOV 1892 - 1932 Index

Census:
     Date:   1901
     Place:   Lanark Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Individual Notes

Note for: Andrew Somerville, 8 MAR 1896 - 27 APR 1904 Index

Census:
     Date:   1901
     Place:   Lanark Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Individual Notes

Note for: Lloyd M. Somerville, 4 FEB 1899 - 25 JUN 1981 Index

Census:
     Date:   1901
     Place:   Lanark Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Individual Notes

Note for: Christian Frederick "Christopher" McPherson, 20 AUG 1840 - 24 FEB 1920 Index

Burial:
     Date:   UNKNOWN
     Place:   Riverside Cemetery, Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada

Individual Note:
     [Machan Family.FTW]

Notes from Mrs. J. Tucker, Dauphin, Manitoba THE DAUPHIN AND HERALD AND PRESS MARCH 4 1920
CHRISTIAN FREDERICK McPHERSON was born in Guysboro, Nova Scotia and moved to Middlesex County, Ontario with his parents in 1852. He married Nancy McCloy. In 1880 he moved to Birtle, Manitoba. He and his wife, Nancy, in partnership with James Reid, operated a Stopping House at Binscarth near Birtle for several years. In 1888, they moved to the Dauphin area where he took up a homestead and farmed in the Spruce Creek district for thirteen years,(SE-28-24-20). They moved to Minitonas. Manitoba in 1901 and operated a lumber mill at Thunder Hill. He died in Winnipeg in February 1920 (Obit DH 04-03-20 H#7). Nancy moved to Kamloops.B.C. afler the death of her husband. She died there 13 August, 1946 aged 99 years. (Obit DH 12-09-46. H#19). Their children: James; Edward; George; Archibald; Annie. Mrs. A.D.McLeod; Margaret, Mrs. Robert Machan Myrtle, Mrs. J.R Hall; Amanda, Mrs G. Chapman; Mary, Mrs. Enoch Tennant.

Obituary: Dauphin Herald 4 March 1920 -

A DAUPHIN PIONEER BURIED: Christian Frederick McPherson who passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hall in Winnipeg, was buried in Riverside Cemetery on Friday. Service was held in St.Paul’s Church. Rev. H. P. Barrett officiating. The pallbearers: John Church, Wm.Buchannon, R. J Morrison, W. A. Armstrong. Jas. Buchannon and Geo. Buchannon, all members of the Orange order of which deceased was a life-long member.

He was born in Guysboro, Nova Scotia and with his parents, removed to Middlesex County, Ontario in 1852. In 1880, he caine west and located at Birtle. In 1888 he crossed the mountain and commenced fanning operations in Dauphin. He remained here for 13 years and in 1901 when the railroad was pushed north, he removed to Minitonas. Besides his widow, he is survived by four daughters: Mrs. A.D. McLeod,Winnipeg; Mrs. Robert Machan, Dauphin; Mrs. C.Cbapman, Kamloops and Mrs. J.R. Hall, Winnipeg. Four sons also survive. James and Edward of Kamloops; George and Archibald at Minitonas.

Individual Notes

Note for: Nancy McLoy, 1847 - 13 AUG 1946 Index

Event:
     Type:   Death Reg. #
     Place:   1946-09-010263

Burial:
     Date:   UNKNOWN
     Place:   Pleasant Street Cemetery, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

Individual Note:
     [Machan Family.FTW]

Notes for NANCY MCCLOY: Buried in Pleasant Street Cemetery, Kamloops. B.C.
Information provided by Mrs.J.Tucker,Dauphin.Manitoba. July 1999.

Obituary: MRS. NANCY McPHERSON - In her 100th year, Mrs. Nancy McPherson died on August 13 at Kamloops, BC at the family residence. She has been in failing health for a year. Funeral services were held on Thursday. August 15 from D~er’s funeral home at 3 o’clock with the Archdeacon Bradshaw officiating. Surviving are two sons and four daughters: Ed McPherson of Lantzville, Vancouver Island, James McPherson of Rayleigh Mount; Mrs. E.R.Chapman of Rayleigh. Mrs. J.R. Hall of Winnipeg; Mrs. Machan of Dauphin; Mrs. A.D.McLeod of Rayleigh; also a brother and a sister, Welsh McCloy and Mrs. Jane Misner of Fairgrove. Michigan. Mrs. McPherson went to Kamloops in 1917 with her husband who predeceased her on February 24, 1920. They had been former residents of Dauphin.

Newspaper clipping from paper dated February 1940:
THOSE DAYS THE TRAiN STOPPED SO THE PASSENGERS COULD SEE THE BUFFALO ON THE PRAIRIES
They stopped the train to let us get off and pick the gorgeous wild flowers that covered the prairie, cowslips and daisies and wild roses, and also to see the buffalo cropping the plain the the distance, says Mrs. Nancy McPherson of Karnloops,BC recalling her trip to Birtle, Man. in 1881. She has come here to say goodbye to her youngest granddaughter Nancy Hall who is going overseas as a nursing sister. Sunday Mrs. McPherson celebrates her 93rd birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.D. McLeod, Dallceith Apts. The train trip Mrs. McPherson was talking about was on the C.P.R. lines between Winnipeg and Portage La Prairie. She had come from Huron County, Ontario with six small children to join her husband who had a log cabin all ready to receive them at Bird Tail Creek, 10 miles north of Birtle. They were to go by paddle steamer up the Assiniboine, but they missed the boat by 24 hours. It’s a good thing; otherwise we’d have missed the buffalo.

Born, February 4, 1847, in Huron County, Nancy lived as a child in the wilderness in a clearing cut by her father and brothers. The nearest school was five miles away; to attend it, she had to stay with her grandparents. "I used to cry to go home" laughed Mrs. McPherson, looking back on those far off days. Home was a place of spinning, weaving and ???? cloth. That means washing and soaping it to make it shrink and tighten up. I can remember ???? the bobins for Aunt Belle. There was no such thing as birthday parties in her youth. "The only time I know when we had anything extra was on Hallowe’en night. We used to bob for apples and pennies in bowls of water. But we had fun at home. My father taught me to dance. He used to do step dancing".

Asked if she wore copper toed shoes as a child,the birthday lady smiled: "No, but one of my boys did. My eldest son had caught muskrats and skinned them. He walked four miles to Solsgirth to sell the skins and buy his little brother Eddie a pair of copper toed shoes. I remember them so well, sturdy little shoes with the metal cap for durability. One of the funniest things that had happened in her long life was losing all their possessions - temporarily." Our trunks came on a river boat, that got wrecked. Father found some of the things on the river bank three months afler. He found my dress trunk under a bin of oats - the trunk had been put in the barn for saftty by whoever found it, and later a load of oats dumped in, I suppose. I got all my dishes back - only one saucer was broken ????? too. But in the heart of the chum, I had put a jar of tallow. It was missing. It ws in a little brown jug with a neck - I thought if we ran out of candles, I could light it. I guess they thought is was something else in a jug. Living now at Kamloops with a son, Mrs. McPherson still uses the sturdy oak chairs her husband made for their first log home. They are rather like Windsor chairs, only the top of the back is straight. The spindles are all put in with little oak pins. During the last war it was a daughter and not a granddaughter that went overseas as a nurse, Mrs. A .D. McLeod. On the wall of the Dalkeith suite is an oil painting of Dorothy Vernon’s bridge. We were stationed near Haddon Hall - you remember Dorothy fled over the little bridge for her runaway marriage said Mrs. McLeod. These are Mrs. McPherson’s children: Mrs.E.R. Chapman, Kamloops and Mrs. J.R.Hall. Winnipeg, who are twins and who were both nurses; Mrs. R.G.Machan, Dauphin; James of Kamloops; Edward of Victoria - the little boy who got the copper toed shoes. The birthday lady is proud of living long as did her grandmothers, who both came to Canada; one was 98 and the other 103 when she died.

B.C.Div. of Vital Statistics - Registration of Death - Reg.No. 0102663
Resident of Rayleigh Mountain, Kamloops District, B.C. for 29 years. Burial August 15, 1946 at Pleasant Street Cemetery, Kamloops, BC.

Note: Nancy McCloy was 4ft. 1 tin, tall.

Individual Notes

Note for: Willard Andrew Machan, 6 FEB 1891 - 4 JAN 1917 Index

Event:
     Type:   Census1901
     Date:   1901
     Place:   Dalhousie Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Event:
     Type:   Religion1901
     Date:   1901
     Place:   Presbyterian

Burial:
     Date:   UNKNOWN
     Place:   St. Andrews Cemetery, Lot 11, Concession 2, Dalhousie Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada