SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE
1924

         FRANK HOPKINS.  

   Frank Hopkins is discharging the duties of town clerk of Biggar with
an efficiency and ease that commands the respect of all.  He was born
in Rugby, England, on the 22d of May, 1874, a son of George and Sarah
Ann  (Roddis) Hopkins, likewise natives of England. The father was a
building contractor and followed that line of work with unusual success
in  England throughout his life.  His death occurred in January of the
year 1901, the same day, month and year in which Queen Victoria's
demise occurred. Mrs. Hopkins died in August, 1910.
  The public schools of Rugby, England, afforded Frank Hopkins his
early education and later he was articled to an architect in Leicester,
England.  He followed that line of work for ten years, being for the
most part engaged in railroad extension work, and in 1905 he resigned
his position and came to Canada. He first located in Ontario and engaged
In farming near Chatham for six months. The following two months he
lived at Copper Cliff and in April, 1906, removed to Saskatoon, where
he worked for the Monarch Lumber Company one year. At the termina-
tion of that time he acquired a homestead near Kinloy, Saskatchewan,
and operated it with great success for one and one-half years. In Octo-
ber, 1908, he came to Biggar as manager of the North American Luumber
Company and remained with that concern until 1911. He then returned
to the employ of the Monarch Lumber Company and was made managed.
at Kinley. There he resided until 1918, when he returned to Biggar in
the office of town clerk, the duties of which he has since discharged. Lie
also has extensive farming interests here, which he supervises. Mr. Hop-
kins is a man of innate business ability and the dominant factors in his
present day success have been his energy and close application to the
thing at hand.
     Mr. Hopkins has been twice married.  On the 30th of April, 1903, he
was married to Miss Alice Tubby, who died in September, 1906.  They
became parents of one child: Edna, who was born in September, 1906.
Mr. Hopkins was married in August, 1913, to Mrs. Maggie Drummond.
Mr. Hopkins has always been public-spirited and has been active in the
civic affairs of every community in which he has made his home. While
a resident of Kinley, Saskatchewan, he was secretary-treasurer of the
village.  Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of
America and his religious faith is that of the Anglican church. During
the Great war Mr. Hopkins did all in his power to further the govern-
 ment's interests and was secretary at Biggar for the Patriotic Fund. He
is a man of genial and pleasing personality and possesses the genius for
making and keeping friends. He is a sincere believer in Biggar and its
future and is one of this community's leading citizens.

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