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Train in Cartwright
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Our family, who had endured so many hardships, grew up to be thrifty, energetic and successful. My brother James left for the Big Bend country in Washington and prospered. My sister Mary maried into the Stevenson family at Morris, and her children are thriving farmers and nurserymen. My sister Sarah married Augustus Taylor and homesteaded in the Fairdale district. In 1900 I took a homestead east of Holmfield, married Viola Fisher and later raised four children: adopted son Fred Warner, daughters Vera (Mrs. Clare Pybus, Winnipeg), Nora (Mrs. Garson Vogel, Winnipeg) and son Sam at Killarney. In 1927 I retired to Killarney, and am now in my ninety-ninth year, still alert in both mind and body.
But things were about to change for Old Cartwright. The railway was bing built and it was to pass thorough 2 miles south of where Old Cartwright had been built. It wasn't practical for all of the supplies to be loaded and then hauled 2 miles north so the birth of present day Cartwright began.