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Fremantle

Fremantle, Saskatchewan, Canada

Fremantle Saskatchewan
also seen Freemantle as a spelling

Unincorporated Railway Point (Siding, Loading Platform)

Located at SE Section 17, Township 8, Range 3, W2

Latitude- 49º 38' N
Longitude- 102º 23' W

Elevation 2058 ft

Located on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, CPR, in 1927, between Carlyle and Arcola


Part of My Dad's 1927 Map of this area.

They had 2 Grain Elevators, not shown in map above

First Elevator
built by the Maple Leaf Grain Co.
Art Hollonquist was the first agent.

Sask Wheat Pool built their elevator in 1929, destroyed by fire in 1962

David Alexander “Alex” Gilliland
b- Mar 14, 1903, in Carievale SK
son of David Gilliland, and Clara Gilliland, nee Crockard
He became elevator agent in 1932 in Fremantle.
SK Wheat Pool employee for 36 years,
retired end of Mar 1968 in Saskatoon
wife- Irene, 2 children
History and other agents in the Carlyle History book

No Post Office known




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  • Last modified: 2017/10/24 06:32
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