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Caron
Update 2015
In
May of 2015 Bill Pinfold, a British tourist
with family ties to Caron, visited Caron and
sent me these images and comments.
"I called by at Caron just to have a look around and spotted a group of people erecting a new children's play-area beside the community hall on the corner of Main Street /Railway Ave and Ernfold Street. I wondered over to say hello and a chap called Ed Livingstone explained that several families have moved to the village so three of them have clubbed together to put in some slides etc. It sounds like the village population is really growing again. Ed is himself developing a couple of plots of land, including the exact spot on Morse Street where my great uncle's house stood. I also visited Sandra at the new RM office in Moose Jaw and had a lovely chat to catch up with her. She was explaining that the water table has risen drastically this spring due to excess water coming down from the north. The basement of the old RM office flooded to 3 feet deep, which she has never seen before in her 30 odd years in charge. The RM office has now been bought and is being converted to a private residence. The Canadian Legion hall next to the old RM office has been bought and changed a flea market." Below the former RM Office   The new playground  The former British Legion building  Below the former St Andrew's Church now a residence.   |
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Caron
Update 2016
In 2016 Bill Pinfold, a British
tourist with family ties to Caron, visited
Caron and sent me these images and comments.
"The village is looking
very green and pleasant at the moment.
A couple of new houses have been built
and a new house is being finished at
the junction of Morse and Coteau. The
new play park beside the village hall
has had two concrete bases added and
last weekend they were going to put a
gazebo on one and a picnic bench on
the other.
https://www.facebook.com/CaronForKids/
 A chap called Rodney
Schmidt who lives up the hill bought
the old RM office and uses it to
display his private collection of
antiques and museum pieces. Apparently
he can be approached for viewings so I
will try to call him next time I am
there."
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Caron
Update 2017
In June of 2017 Bill Pinfold, a
British tourist with family ties to Caron,
visited Caron and sent me these images and
comments.
"Another year and somehow I
managed to justify another visit to
Caron last week. That's 5 in a row
now and, having just found new
cousins in Moose Jaw, I suspect I
will also be back out there next
year too.
A few things to update you on : - we spent a few hours with
Rodney Schmidt who moved to Caron a
couple of years ago with his wife
Darlene. They live in a new house on
Coteau Ave and Rodney bought the old
RM office which was the Bank
of Hamilton up to 1924. Rodney is a
very personable chap who has
collected loads of interesting stuff
and has turned the RM office and a
shed behind into a mini-museum.
Loads of old telephones, storage
jars, farm gear, household gadgets,
bottles, pipes, etc and especially
some great railway station artefacts
including a message catcher and a
ticket cabinet.
 - the column with the old
school bell on it had to be moved.
The frame holding the bell had also
started to collapse. So the bell is
currently being stored and the idea
is to incorporate it in a new
village sign to be put at the level
crossing. A new sign is needed
because yet more people have moved
in to the village.
- the memorial cairn that
the Legion had has been removed and
will supposedly be placed in
Mortlach instead.
- Railway Ave looks to have
been renamed Milne VC Ave."
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