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| Father:- Henry Currie was born Jan. 28, 1843 in Blenheim, Oxford County, near Ayr, Ont. Mother:- Agnes Hall was born in South Dumfries, a few miles from Ayr, Ont. Henry and Agnes moved west on Feb. 28th, 1907. Along with their family they brought Scott Rose. Scott was born at Ayr, Ont. Feb. 2, 1898. Scott's mother died when he was two years old so Henry and Agnes took him into their family. When his Dad and three brothers left for Manitoba, he would not go with them. So he came west with Mr. and Mrs. Currie, the only Father and Mother he new. He married Rose Miller from Elphin, Ontario. She came out west to visit her aunt in 1919. Rose was a cousin to the Wilson's. Grandma Wilson's maiden name was Miller. Scott and Rose were married Feb. 6, 1924 at Sovereign Manse. Then her name was Rose Rose. Agnes Currie died April 25th, 1922. Henry and her son Ernest accompanied her body back to Blenheim and she was buried in the Ayr cemetery. Henry Currie later moved to Saskatoon, Sask. and then to Glamis where he died Aug. 9, 1931. His body was also sent back to Ayr, Ont. James Hall Currie came west from Blenheim, Ont., first to Neepawa, Man. and then to Sask. in July 1904. His brother Jack, Bob Black and Art Innis came with him. He took up a homestead at Valparaiso, east of Melfort. In Nov. 1905 he took up a homestead at Glamis, Sask. on the NW quarter of 6-28-13. He later traded his brother Ern for the NW quarter of 12-28-14. He went back to Man. for the winter and came back June 20th, 1906. He built a sod house and a frame barn. Jack and Ern brought their mother and dad out west in the spring of 1907. They stayed in Hanley, Sask. all summer. They brought lumber already cut to build a 16 ft by 28 ft house. The boys built the house. The house they lived in at Hanley they tore down to bring with them but they left the roof intact. They couldn't get it across a creek six miles west of Hanley so had to find a place to cross on the ice. When their father saw the Saskatchewan river for the first time he said "Dod! we'll never gang across there" There were so many people coming west they had to wait a whole day get across on the ferry. When they finally got on the ferry a colt got loose, fell in the river and almost drowned before they got it ashore. Bonnie View post office started in the home of Henry Currie. Jim Currie was the the first Postmaster. In 1910 Jim Currie purchased a threshing outfit. With a crew consisting of himself, his two brothers Jack and Ern, and five other men they did all the threshing in the district for eighty farmers in forty days. The shortest job was twenty minutes and the longest was a little over a day. Jim met Mabel Wilson that fall when she came west with her brother, Mel, to visit their sister, Agnes (Mrs. Bob Nisbet). According to Doris (Currie) Turner, Jack Currie saw Mabel Wilson first and made a date with her. He was also dating Annie Lillico at that time. Mabel saw Jim Currie and that was the end of Jack. He later married Annie Lillico. She never came out west very often. If she did she never spoke to Jim and Mabel. Jack farmed at Glamis until 1923 then went back to Ont. He just came back at harvest time a few years after that. Jim and Mabel were married in Elphin, Ont. on Dec 27, 1911. They came back west and farmed until 1942. They moved to stay at Crest, Sask. Then in 1947 they built a house in Nipawin, Sask. They lived there until Jan. 1958. Due to ill health they went back to Glamis to live with their son Elmore until Nov. when they took up residence in Golden Years Lodge in Elrose, Sask. They celebrated their 50th anniversary Dec. 27, 1961. Mabel passed away Dec. 5, 1962. She was buried in Rosetown, Sask. Jim came back to live with Elmore until he died July 14, 1963. He was also buried in Rosetown. | ||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified 17 Jun 1997 | Created 22 Oct 2002 by Reunion for Macintosh |