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 Harriet
Jane
Campbell was born in Summerside, P.E.I., in
1861. She came to Moose Jaw while a young girl
with relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Porter, parents of
the first photographer in Moose Jaw. The First
Baptist Church was built in Moose Jaw in 1883
and Harriet Jane was the first member of that
church to be baptized that year, at the age of
21, in the Moose Jaw River.
William and Harriet Jane were married in 1884 in Moose Jaw, N.W.T. Their homestead, NE 24-18-28, was in the Westview district. They lived in a sod house beside the Old Temperance Trail over which supplies were hauled westward. When the police took Louis Riel to Regina for trial in 1885, they spent the night camped close to the house on the Richards' homestead. Around 1894, after a severe dry spell, the Richards and several other families loaded up their belongings and moved to the ravines in the hills SW of Caron where there would be water and grass for cattle. Here Grandpa dug into the side of a hill, fitted the recess with a board front, and this became "home" for his family for many months. The need for school arose, so Grandpa moved to the Caron district, settling near where Wilfred Crosbie now lives. The children attended Caron Prairie School on land of John Thomas (Top) Hans. he next farm purchased by Grandpa was the farm north of the Trans Canada Pipeline station, SW 1 - 18-29, where in 1904 he built a new frame house that still stands on the Wayne Peter farm.  Clarence Richards on
his Titan tractor at the farm.
 The Richards' home on what is now Wayne Peters' farm. When Grandpa Richards' Dad died at Pickering, Ont., he left the Ontario farm to Grandpa so they moved back to Ont. This farm is still known as the Richards' farm. Due to health reasons they had to sell the farm and return to Caron. Since the farm was rented, Grandpa bought the east farm from Mr. Yates, until the home farm became available again.  At one time, Grandpa and
Grandma owned the building where the
Hamilton Bank was in Caron. They lived over
the bank, and at the time of the big fire
(1915) it burned down and they lost
everything.
 The Hamilton Bank is on the far left of the photograph above. The 1915 fire
broke out in the store and devoured all the
buildings shown in the photograph. The
Hamilton Bank wasn't a lucky building because on
September 16, 1916, it fell victim to the first
professional bank robbery in Saskatchewan.
They bought a house in Caron and lived there for a while, then moved back to the farm until 1922, when they retired to Caron. Grandpa died in 1932 and Grandma in 1934. William and Jane had 10
children: Mary, Belle, John, Roy, William,
George, Herbert, Clarence, Harvey, and Jean.
***********************  Clarence was born in the frame house that Grandpa built on SW 1-18-29. He took over the farm in 1922 when he married Agnes. He was very active in community affairs. He was Sec. Treas. of Caron Prairie School, Pres. of Caron Prairie Club, Pres. of Caron Community Club, Councillor of #162for 18 years, Sec. Treas. of Caron United Church, and an ardent member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge #25, and of Rebekah Lodge #112. He farmed both the home farm and the east farm and had a dairy herd and shipped milk to Moose Jaw for years. Agnes Victoria Freid's parents and 3 oldest children came from Sweden in 1887 to Bruce Mines, Ont., where she was born in 1899. She attended Normal School at North Bay and taught in Ont. for awhile, but the salaries in Sask. were so much better that she came West to teach. She taught at Admiral, and at Caron Prairie School in 1920-21. Mother was President of the W.M.S. and W.A. for many years. She was responsible for organizing the Baby Band. She was active in church and lodge work and boarded the teachers.  Agnes and Clarence had 2 daughters, Ferne, and Faye (1930) who became an R.N., nursing at Eastend and Indian Head. In 1952 she married Gordon Sutcliffe and in 1967 they began a market garden at Lumsden. They have 4 children: Donna, Darlene (Worth), Richard and Paul. Ferne taught at Fastend, Lake Valley, Crestwynd and Sintaluta, and married Bud Price in 1950, living in Sintaluta until her return to work in Moose Jaw in 1973. Clarence and Agnes sold the farm to Lawrence Peter in 1961 and moved to Moose Jaw. They joined Minto United Church. Dad was still active .n community, church and Lodge work. Mother, too, worked hard for Minto Church and Rebekah Lodge #4.  In 1972 Mother and Dad celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, and in 1977 their 55th anniversary. Dad died in 1979 at the age of 79. The information above
was written by Ferne and Faye Richards
and is extracted from the book "From
Buffalo Trails to Blacktop"
The photographs
were generously donated by Ferne.
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