Co-Founder John McLeod's Memoirs Page 2

Quick Synopsis of his Story

1882 Nothing sown but a few potatoes.
1883 A good crop – thirty bushels wheat and sixty bushels of oats that year.
1884 And up to 1886. Good crops but in 1886 it was dry and the crop was very poor so they were glad to use the straw left from 1886.
1887 Was a good year and everyone had a good crop when wheat at .50 cents a bushel was considered good.
1888 Plenty of rain but a lot of the crop was frozen very badly, grew long and rust but didn’t get time to properly mature. Frost came on the 15th and 22nd of August.
1889 No rain at all and no crop to thresh but had enough wheat stacked from 1888.
1890 Moved to Melita but had lovely crops on the farms. Father sick for ten weeks with typhoid fever and had to go to Deloraine for a doctor.
1891 The biggest crop. Snow came in November.
1892 Moved to Estevan. Norman born at Melita February 17th.

Norman Leslie McLeod
b- Feb 17, 1892, at Melita MB
d- Sept. 25, 1949
Son of John McLeod
and father to Bona Jean (nee McLeod) Brace
Norman donated the McLeod Trophy, to the Estevan Collegiate Institute

Bona Jean Brace sent this story to me to publish here.
A copy of this story has also been donated to the Souris Valley Museum, as a piece of Estevan's History, by Bona Jean Brace.

John and Sarah McLeod had 7 children
Their birth and Death dates below:
Jean Ethel, born Oct. 10,1886, died Aug. 29,1952
Norman Leslie (above), born Feb. 17, 1892, died Sept. 25, 1949
James Lawrence, born May 19, 1901, died (April, I think) 1953
Esther Grace, born June 21, 1903, died Sept. 27, 1973
There were 3 other children, 2 boys and a girl who only lived a short
time - 12 days for the girl, 3 1/2 weeks and 9 months for the two boys.

Copy of an Actual 1939 AD in the ECI Trumpeter Yearbook

Article Written By Bill Tennant, About John McLeod and his Granddaughter, For ECI Reunion 2000 in Estevan.
Printed in the Special Reunion Edition of the Estevan Mercury. Permission to use from Publisher Peter Ng.

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