Descendants of Joseph Charles Best

Joseph Charles Best was from a large family whose father John Best and his wife Mary Collins, emigrated from Ireland.

Joseph and Carolina Best were married on September 29, 1897 at Eldorado, Ontario with Reverend H. B. Rowe officiating.

Joseph went out west in the spring of 1898 and stayed with his brother Jack, who settled in the north of Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan. Carolina followed her husband after the birth of Arthur Alexander Best, who was born on August 16, 1898. It was a long trip on a mixed train with a small baby but people were very kind and they finally reached Winnipeg, Manitoba where they were housed in the old Immigration Hall until they could board a train for the west. They had to go to Oxbow as the train didn't stop at Glen Ewen at that time. Joe Best picked up his family and took them to the Jack Best homestead where they lived for some time in a sod house.

Joseph Best homesteaded in 1898 on NE 10-4-34 W1, nine miles northeast of Glen Ewen. He remained there until 1906 when they moved to Glen Ewen to live in a house how occupied by Mr and Mrs Bert Ryckman. Then he purchased the house which was part of the old school across from the present school. He worked had to get a new school built. Their house was located on Lot 3, Block 9, Sub. B1764. Later he sold parts of this large lot. They lived there until 1914. Joe ran a feed store in the village, then deciding to return to his former occupation they moved back to the homestead and lived there until 1918. Then he purchased a farm two and one half miles north of Glen Ewen, part of 28-4-34 W1, where he remained until his death on January 17, 1931.

While on the farm, both on the homestead and the second farm, Joe had a blacksmith shop; he sharpened plow shoes and shod horses. He was frequently called upon to doctor horses and cows as there was no veterinarian.

The rest of Joe Best's family was born in the Glen Ewen district. They were Gladys Mary, Charles Joseph, John Cecil, Wesley Robert and Wilbert, who died in infancy in 1910.

The following insert was taken from the Ontario Ghost Towns Website: ELDORADO, ONTARIO

Nothing much is left of Eldorado now, but in 1866 the story was quite different. When rumours of great gold discoveries such as "Gold the size of butternuts" began to surface in the town, not surprisingly, grew from nothing to some 80 buildings almost over night.

Prospectors and speculators arrived by the multitudes to have their pickings of the rumoured riches. Although small amounts of gold actually did exist in Eldorado, the majority of claims were either salted, fraudulent, or at the best, wildly exaggerated. By the 1870's the mines were drying up and the party was over. Almost everyone left.

Eldorado, however, didn't die easily. For a time, the Central Ontario Railway operated a small terminus to service the farm community and a few modest industries continued to maintain operations. Today, Eldorado is almost deserted with some two dozen buildings left, the majority of which are up for sale. The red stop signs are faded to almost white. It’s once numerous streets reduced to small backwoods trails. A cheese factory, selling Eldorado Gold Cheese, is still open as is the combination gas station/general store, their survival undoubtedly due more to the busy traffic zipping along on Highway 62 than the sustained patronage of the few diehard residents. An historical plague alongside the highway tells the story of Eldorado and the famous Hastings gold rush of the 1860's.

G E N E A L O G Y & H I S T O R Y B O O K S

Eldorado: Ontario's First Gold Rush

By Gerald Boyce.

Where did Ontario's first gold rush take place? Not, as you might think, in the Kirkland Lake or Timmins area of northern Ontario, but in the Madoc-Eldorado area of Hastings County, less than an hour's drive from busy Highway 401. The discovery was made in August 1886. Thousands of miners and speculators soon arrived from B.C., California and elsewhere. They included "Cariboo" Cameron of British Columbia Mining fame.

This book explores the events of the Madoc Gold Rush and explains some of it's touching, humorous and tragic moments. Gerry Boyce is one of eastern Ontario's best known historians. His contribution to regional history have been recognized by the Cdn. Historical Association and the Ontario Historical Society.

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Hastings County includes the following townships: Sydney, Thurlow, Tyendenaga, Hungerford, Huntingdon, Rawdon, Marmora, Madoc, Elzevir, Grimsthorpe, Tudor and Lake.

1866....Gold fever strikes Canada West (Ontario) with the discovery of gold at Eldorado in Hastings County. Thousands of miners and would be prospectors streamed into the area providing a boom to settlement in the northern portions of Hastings county along the Hastings Road (Highway 62). Source - book: ELDORADO: Ontario's First Gold Rush

Burial: 17 January 1931, Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan, Canada

Burial: August 1911, Eldorado, Ontario, Canada

Mrs. Carolina Franks-Best stayed on the farm with her son Wesley Best and his wife, Lizzie Hill-Best until the spring of 1942 when she moved to her house in Glen Ewen. Here she resided until 1962 when she went to Winnipeg to make her home with her daughter, Gladys Best-Young. She was an active member of the United Church, United Church Women and the Ladies Orange Benevolent Association. She passed away at the home of her daughter in Winnipeg on November 16, 1965 on her 91st birthday.

Burial: 16 November 1965, Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan, Canada

John Cecil Best was born on the homestead north of Glen Ewen on July 30, 1904. He was about three years old when the family moved to Glen Ewen. They lived most of the time in the old school house that was the first school in Glen Ewen. He went to school in Glen Ewen until 1914 when they moved back out to the homestead. He went to South Antler School from 1914 until 1918 and spent the 1919 winter at school in Glen Ewen. He started working out in 1921.

John married Bessie Barker in 1926 and while they living on the McCrindle farm, north east of Glen Ewen, the twins, Bessie Alice and Caroline Belle were born. Alice died in 1929 of pneumonia. In 1930, while they were living on the Wigmore farm their son, Percy John Terence was born. Later they moved to Glen Ewen where Bessie Jane was born in August 1933. John and Bessie moved from Glen Ewen to north of Melfort, Saskatchewan about 1934 or 1935. John went to Prince George, BC, for four months before moving his family to the Livelong, Saskatchewan area.

In 1942, he and Bessie separated and John and his daughter, Jane, came to Assiniboia to his sister's Gladys' home. John worked in a grain elevator at Tataqua for a year before moving to Weyburn where he worked in Eaton's mail order for a time. In 1955, he started working for Crawley Co. and was with them for eight years. During that time he was at McKenzie Island, Ontario; Beausejour, Manitoba; Hudson Bay, Manitoba; Deer Lake, Ontario; Churchill, Manitoba; Kenora, Ontario and Thompson, Manitoba. Most of these were mining camps where they mined nickel, copper and gold.

In June 1957, while John still lived in Thompson, he obtained his divorce. After leaving Thompson, John owned and operated a pool room for two years. When he sold it he retired and went to live with his sister, Gladys Best-Young in Winnipeg, Manitoba, spending time with his daughter, Jane in Weyburn and visiting his son, Percy in Marwayne, Alberta.

John Cecil Best has since passed away in November 1989 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan and is buried in the family plot in Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan.

The following is a copy of the Death Certificate of John Cecil Best.

Funeral Directors

Statement of Death

We Certifiy that John Cecil Best died at Weyburn, Saskatchewan on the 5th day of November, 1989 at the age of 85 years. The funeral of the above mentioned person was conducted by this Funeral Home on the 8th day of November 1989 with burial at Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan. Our records show the next-of-kin to be: NAME: Jane White

ADDRESS: Weyburn, Saskatchewan

RELATIONSHIP: Daughter

We certify the above to be a true statement from our records. Dated in Oxbow, Saskatchewan, this 8th day of November, 1989.

Per: Evelyn Yeates

Orsted Funeral Home Ltd.

Funeral service for John Cecil Best, age 85, late of the Souris Valley Regional Care Centre, Weyburn, Saskatchewan was held November 8, 1989 at 2 p.m. from the Glen Ewen United Church. Reverend L. Churchill was officiant. Interment followed at the Glen Ewen cemetery.

John Cecil Best was born on the homestead north of Glen Ewen on July 30, 1904. He was about three years old when the family moved to Glen Ewen where he later attended school. John married Bessie Barker in 1926 and went to live on the McCrindle farm. In 1934 John, Bessie and family moved to the Beatty area. After working on farms in that area for three years, John and his family moved to Livelong, Saskatchewan. In 1979 he moved to Weyburn where he resided until his death. John was predeceased by his parents, Carolina and Joseph, one sister, four brothers, one daughter and one grandson. He is survived by one son Percy (Lorna) Best of Heinsburg, Ab; two daughters, Belle Gough of Saskatoon, and Jane (Walter) White of Weyburn; six grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Robert White, Charlie White, Lynell Husum, Cliff Tollefson, Don Cooney and Jim Burnett. Funeral arrangements were in care of Orsted Funeral Home, Oxbow, Saskatchewan.

Burial: 8 November 1989, Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan, Canada

Bessie married John Best and they farmed for a while north of Oxbow, Saskatchewan, they lived in Glen Ewen, Melfort and Spruce Lake, Saskatchewan. Bessie Barker and John Best divorced in June, 1957. Bessie lived in Livelong, Saskatchewan, Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. While in Lloydminster, she and John moved into the Pioneer Lodge, where they lived for a few years before they moved to the Seniors Lodges in Marwayne, Alberta. Here they lived for a few more years before they moved back into Lloydminster and this is where John passed away at. After his passing, Bessie moved into the Knox Manor, where is lived until her death in 2000. She will always be remembered by her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and many of her friends as a very helpful lady. She had a heartful laugh and was always smiling even to strangers as she passed by on the street. Bessie was always taking care of someone before taking care of herself. Bessie started to take piano lessons at the age of nine years old and played the keyboard right up to her just before her passing. Music was always played a big place in her heart. When Bessie passed away, she was the missing link in a chain of five generation. Bessie was a part of three, five generations. May she rest in peace, eternally and be in the arms of our saviour.

Burial: 11 April 2000, Marwayne Cemetery, Marwayne, Alberta, Canada

Arthur Alexander Best came with his parents to settle in the Glen Ewen district in the year of his birth. He went to school at South Antler and Glen Ewen schools. He worked in the general store owned by Chappell and Spinks and worked for some of the farmers at that time including Bert Farr and Frank Adams. He also worked on several threshing outfits.

Arthur married Clara Belle Barker of the Mount Pleasant district in 1921. To this marriage, two children were born, Olive Gladys and Cecil Alexander. Mrs. Clara Best passed away in January 1926 and was buried in Glen Ewen Cemetery.

Arthur's sister, Gladys, kept house for him for a year on the Wigmore farm, north of Oxbow and cared for the two children until they went to live with their grandparents, Joseph and Caroline Best.

Arthur left the farm to go to work for Arthur Young of the Alameda district. There he met and married Jessie Nelson Burness on August 6, 1927. They resided at Alameda for four years, and then moved to Bienfait where Arthur worked in the coal mines, briquette plant and in the Bienfait hospital as a caretaker. They returned to Alameda in 1943 where he had the dray and milk business. In 1967, they purchased the Birch Inn Cafe, in Alameda and operated that for six and one half years. They are retired and live in Alameda.

Arthur and Jessie have a son and a daughter. Donald David resides in Oxbow and Phyliss Josephine with her husband, Robert Henry Farnden resides in Alameda.

Burial: 10 May 1979, Alameda Cemetery, Alameda, Saskatchewan, Canada

Clara Belle Barker died in Estevan Hospital, Saskatchewan on Wednesday, January 13, 1926, at the age of 25 years.

Burial: 13 January 1926, Glen Ewen Cemetery, Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan, Canada

My father Percy John Terence Best was born on January 23, 1930 at Oxbow, Saskatchewan. My mother Lorna Revilla Best (nee: Howard) was born on February 19, 1934 at Frenchman Butte, Saskatchewan. They were married at Frenchman Butte, Sask. by Reverend Elwood McLean on June 10, 1952 in the log church that used to stand across the street from Buchta's General Store. To this union, four boys were born, Ezra Larry, born on March 24, 1953 and died on April 24, 1953 and is buried at Mervin, Saskatchewan. Terry Ronald was born on May 17, 1954, Patrick Kelly was born on December 9, 1956 and Jonathon Percy Robin was born on March 8, 1972.

We lived in a number of places in Saskatchewan, like Glen Ewen, Midale, Macoon, Livelong and Pierceland, before settling down in Alberta, when we moved there in 1961.

We first stayed with my great grandfather, Robert Alexander Howse, near Islay. We lived with him for a month or so until dad found a job working for Frank Fox, owner of Nupar Stock Farm. It was here that I started school; Terry was already in grade two. Terry had started his schooling at Glen Ewen but halfway through his grade two, was when we moved to Alberta, so for that he was held back one year. Terry and I started to go to Sunday school at the Grace United Church in Islay. Every Sunday morning Mrs. Vera Anson and her daughter, Iris, would pick us up and onto church we'd all go. There were a few times on our way back from church that we'd all be talking and Vera would forget to stop and drive past our drive way, so she'd have to back up and stop. We'd all lost track on how many times she'd done this.

Dad worked for Frank Fox for a couple of years, and then he went to work for Lyle Anson, Vera's husband. We were to move just a few miles south of the Nupar Stock Farm. We first lived in the old Anson house which seemed awfully huge to us two small boys. Dad usually walked to Anson's to work for it was only a half mile away, it was okay in the summer but a might chilly in the winter time. By this time, mom had found work as a waitress at the Hub Cafe in Vermilion. I remember one of the funniest stories that happened to our family while living in the old place. Some of mom's relatives had come down to visit us, Thelma and Hank Bouchard, Grandmother Howard and two of her brother's, Joe and Tom. It was getting close to supper time, so Uncle Joe decided he'd go and shoot a duck on the slough behind the barn. The funny thing is after he shot the duck, he paid me $1.00 to wade out in the slough to get the duck, then he paid someone else another dollar to clean it and then he paid mom a dollar to cook it for dinner. When it was done, we all tied into it. Well, he sure didn't get his $3.00 worth, little lone get enough for a meal to feed nine people.

Anson's built themselves a new house, so we were able to move out of the old house and into the one they were moving out of. Dad worked for Lyle for a couple of years, then in 1966, we moved into the town of Islay and dad decided to work for the oil rigs and by this time mom was working at the hospital in Islay as a housekeeper. The house we moved into was terribly small, compared to the last two houses we had just lived in, it only had three rooms.

In the fall of 1966, dad was transferred to Nova Scotia and we sure missed him. He surprised us all by flying home for Christmas that winter. Dad was home until just after New Years and he had to drive one of his workers cars back. Terry and I were in grade six and five. Some of our friend's were Stewie and Sissie (Lucille) Shepard. It certainly didn't take us long to make friend's, for there weren't really all that many kids in town. Since there weren't many of us kids, we certainly kept the adult's on their toes by fighting fires that had gotten started by us kids, who tried to burn the grass so we could have bases to play baseball. This same summer, the old curling rink burnt down but not by our gang of kids.

On July 1, 1967, mom, Terry and I left Islay and flew to Halifax, Nova Scotia to join dad. By this time, he'd been working along the northeast coast of New Brunswick. Dad met us at the Halifax Airport and took us to Upper Rawdon, just west of Truro, where we had lunch with Mary MacPhee. When dad worked in this area, he stayed with Mary and her family. Before we left, Mary asked mom and dad if Terry and I could return and stay with her for a week while her son, Joel, went off to scout camp. They agreed.

We left and headed north for Tracadie, NB. The trip was long for us kids, for we'd first been cooped up in a plane for eight hours and now in a car. It took us one complete day of travelling. When we arrived at our destination, we made and called home in summer cabins at Upper Pouchmouche, NB.

Terry and I were there for about a week before Duane Anseth, dad's tool push, drove us down to Upper Rawdon. Well, we would up staying more than a week, we stayed for five weeks. In this time we have made many friends and taken swimming lessons at Rawdon Gold Mines. We also attended a few baseball games for Mary's one son, Harold, was a player and we also picked a lot of blueberries. On our Leisure time, a bunch of us kids would hitch up the horse, Andy, to the buggy and go for a ride. It was a one seater but we managed to get almost every kid in town in it, all ten of us. One of the funny things that happened was Terry decided it was my turn to drive the buggy. Well, I decided to make a trip around the garage and cut one corner too short, for I caught a wheel in the wooded fence and a tall spruce tree. Everything came to a sudden Halt. My passenger and I were thrown out and luckily neither of us got hurt and thank goodness the horse and buggy were okay. That was my extent of trying to drive a horse and buggy. We sure had a great summer in Upper Rawdon.

Mike Winters came down to pick us up around the middle of August, so we had to say farewell to our friends and head back to find our parents. We found that they had moved to Tabasintac, NB. There was an old gentleman taking care of the cabins, his name was Mr. Frank Harvie. His favourite saying was, "If I had me keys, I'd show ya me boat." I used to take apples off the trees in the yard and he asked me one time, why didn't I take them from the neighbour’s trees across the road. I said because they have a big dog. One incident that happened to mom was when she was walking along the beach and came upon some apple trees on the other side of the fence, upon a little hill. She was just crawling through the fence, when she saw a big dog come running over the hill, right at her. Well, mom didn't think twice and turned and ran. Once down the beach a ways, she glanced over her should to see if the dog was still chasing her. She was surprised to see that all the dog was running for was to cool off in the water of the river. She didn't think it was funny at the time but when she told us, we sure got a laugh out of it.

On September 7, 1967 we started our journey back west to Alberta, after dad bought a new 1967 Ford 1/2 ton in Truro. It took us five days to drive back west and we started our new life in Marwayne, Alberta. We stayed with mom's sister Ethel and her husband, Charlie Oliver, for a couple of weeks until we rented a house next to them which was owned by John Doull Sr. We lived in this house for two years. Then we rented a house from Forest and Margaret Tupper.

In the summer of 1969, dad was working at Pierceland, Saskatchewan, so we moved and lived there for July and August. We were still renting the house in Marwayne, so we moved back at the end of August so Terry and I could continue our schooling. In 1971, the house was sold to Mrs. Kate Boyce and so we moved into the second house at Gerry and Donna Hines' farm, north of town about 9 miles. We were to only stay for a couple of months but wound up living there for three years. It was there in March of 1973 that Jonathon was born.

One of the biggest excitements that took place every at the Hines', was moving all the cattle, about 700 head, north to their summer pasture which was about thirty miles north in the Heinsburg area. Another big event happened in our family, which took place on August 18, 1973 when Terry and Lori Pynten were married. They were united by Reverend Eldred Graves. It was a super day, for it was the first wedding in our family. We had friends and relatives from all over. Friends flew their plane up from Chinook, Montana, Dow and Margaret Overcast, their son Frank and his girlfriend Marcia Rusch. While they were here, we were all able to get a ride in Dow's plane and we used one of VC Hines summer fallow fields as a run way. It was a little rough but it did the trick.

Two years later, Frank and Marcia were married in Montana on May 23, 1975 and so Terry, Lori and I were the only ones who could go. Dad had to go to Grassland, Alberta to drill and the Hines were loosing calves on the lease so were unable to make it too.

Retirement: 1991

Lorna's maternal grandfather, Ralph John Wesley Howard was one of the first homesteaders in the Frenchman Butte area in 1905. In 2001, his first original home still stands.

Bessie Jane Best, youngest daughter of John Best arrived in Assiniboia in 1942 when she was eight years old. Her Aunt Gladys and Uncle Jack Young made a home for her until she got married. Jane went to school in Assiniboia until her uncle Jack was transferred to Swift Current in 1947. She continued her schooling there until Jack was moved to Winnipeg to Federal Grain's Head Office. After she completed her grade eleven, Jane went to work for Winnipeg Electric Company for five years. In 1957, she was married to Walter White, son of Mr and Mrs Arthur White of Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan.

Olive Gladys Best was born on November 24, 1922 on my grandfather's farm in the Mount Pleasant district (6-4-33 W1). She lived in north Oxbow district until her mother's death in 1926. Her aunt, Mrs. Gladys Best-Young came to stay with us for a year and then her brother, Cecil and she went to live with her grandparents, the Joe Bests, north of Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan. They went to school in town as they were closer there than the Mount Pleasant School. Since her grandmother owned land in town, they did not have to pay tuition fees.

Olive's first teacher was Miss Crane and other teachers were: Verna Chambers (Mrs Roy Hill), Mrs K. Cochrane (Mrs Ed Cooney), Jean Walker (Mrs S. Scott), Mary Parsons (Mrs A Walker), George Douglas, Mr Wilson and Mr Jack Wilkie.

They went to school during the "dirty thirties." We had plenty to eat and clothes to wear but no cars, etc., as the children have today. They walked two and one half miles to school. If we did have a horse to drive to school, we had to walk back to the rink after supper to skate or to play ball in the summer time. The skating rink in Glen Ewen was an open air rink at that time so we walked to town after supper, shovelled the snow off the ice, skated and walked back home again.

Olive learnt to ride horseback before she went to school and her father drove horses in harness races for several people. They also had several riding horses. She has always had a great love for horses and still own several at the present time.

On November 26, 1941 she was married to Lloyd George Curle in her grandmother's house. Lloyd was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs George Curle. Lloyd and Olive reside in the Mount Pleasant district. After Lloyd passed away from a battle with lung cancer, she retired and sold the farm. She built a house and retired to Weyburn, Saskatchewan, where she enjoys life and her grandchildren and great grandchildren, for far and wide.

Lloyd George Curle, youngest son of Gordon Curle was born on March 10, 1917 on the farm where he still lives, NW 30-3-33 W1. He was raised here and attended Mount Pleasant School. When the dry years came, he went to Ontario to work in the bush camps cutting pulpwood. He returned to his home in 1940 to assist his father with the farm. Lloyd Curle and Olive Best were married in 1941 and Lloyd's parents moved to Oxbow leaving the farm to them. The farm is six and one-half miles from Glen Ewen and eleven miles from Carnduff.

Olive and Lloyd had two children, Carollyn Margaret and Bryan Lloyd. Both were in Mrs. Reid's home in Carnduff with Dr. Stewart in attendance. Lynn started school in Mount Pleasant and was there two years. She started to go to Glen Ewen School when she was in grade three; Bryan started school that same year. They had a twenty-eight mile bus ride and in the winter they went by bombardier. At that time the children from three districts were riding the same bus and it was very crowded. The bombardier was worse and many children got sick but school went on any way. They completed their high school in Glen Ewen under the watchful eye of Percy Hodgson. They were both active in sports; playing softball, basketball, volleyball and both took part in high school drama.

Lloyd Curle took over the farm from his parents in the Mount Pleasant district and when the Curle family visit, they all enjoy time reminiscing.... the drought years, grasshoppers, dust storms, country dances, picnics, ball games, Halloween pranks, Christmas concerts, weddings, card parties, box socials, not forgetting, fowl suppers and the ice cream cones on Saturday night when everyone shopped for the necessities and talked over their weekly experiences. All eight of the Curle children were born in the house where Lloyd lives, making the land under Curle ownership for over seventy years.

Burial: 17 October 1981, Glen Ewen Cemetery, Glen Ewen, Saskatchewan, Canada

Cecil Alexander Best, son of Arthur and Clara Best, was born on October 21, 1924. He took his schooling at Glen Ewen until he completed his grade eleven, then he went to stay with his Aunt Gladys and Uncle Jack Young at Assiniboia. He enlisted in the army as soon as he was old enough, but the war was over before he finished his training in Canada.

Cecil married Louise Schramel of Avonlea, Saskatchewan, a former teacher at Mount Pleasant School in 1945. When he was discharged they came back to Glen Ewen and bought the farm where Mr and Mrs James Craft had lived, N34-3-34 W1. They lived there for several years but farming didn't pay off too well and the oil boom had just started so he went to work for Storms Trucking in Alida.

He went to work as an iron worker and has worked and lived at Esterhazy, building the potash mines, also at Allan, Rocanville, Lanigan, Colonsay, Vanscoy and Delisle. Cecil was employed at the hydro plant at Estevan and has been at the new plant at Coronach. He has worked on many buildings constructed in Regina and when the DEW line was built, he worked on the construction of the towers.

Cecil is now retired and lives in Fort McMurray, Alberta. He loves to travel and visit all of his children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, all across Canada.

Burial: 1999, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Occupation: Truck Driver/Field Operator

Occupation: Accountant

Gladys White and Craig Cheguis divorced in 1984.

Frederick Craig Cheguis and Gladys White divorced in 1984.

Carollynn Margaret Curle was born on October, 1943. After finishing high school, she attended the University of Saskatchewan for one year taking Arts and Sciences, then trained for fourteen months at the Brandon Hospital for Mental Disease and graduated in May 1963 as a Registered Laboratory Technician. She was employed at the Brandon Provincial Lab until it was moved to Brandon General Hospital where they built a new lab.

Lynn and Donald Alexander Carcary, son of Mr and Mrs William Carcary of Brandon, Manitoba were married on June 17, 1967. They made their home in Brandon where Don was employed at the Manitoba Hydro Generating Station. In 1972, Don returned to the University of Brandon and began his training in dentistry. After completing two years there, they moved to Winnipeg where he graduated in 1978 from the University of Manitoba Dental College.

After finishing high school, Bryan joined the Air Forces. He returned home, after receiving an honourable discharge to help his father on the farm and work on oil rigs in the area.

On September 12, 1964, he and Joan English of Carievale were married. They purchased the Harold Burnett farm north of Glen Ewen and lived there until 1971. Bryan and Joan separated in February, 1971 and their divorce was final a year later. Bryan was working in Alberta at this time and on June 24, 1972 he married Florence Lafreniere of Bonnyville. They have made their home there ever since. They have worked on oil rigs in the north during the winter; Bryan as a driller and Florence as a cook. They bought two trucks and hauled oil from Ethyll Lake to Lloydminster. They also hauled hot asphalt from Lloydminster to road construction sites all over the province. They also had a truck with Arnold Brothers and hauled from Ontario to British Columbia with the two of them driving. This was a life of living on the road. They sold their trucks and opened a woodworking shop in Bonnyville in March 1978, where they sell their own cabinets as well as factory made units.

Bryan and Florence are ardent fisherman and have a large boat and a camper truck and go out to many lakes which surround their hometown.

Burial: 20 June 1988