Roche Percee Post Office

Roche Percee, Saskatchewan, Canada

Federal Electoral District: Moose Mountain (Saskatchewan)
This Post Office was established August 1, 1890
Name was changed to Coalfields Apr 1, 1896
Closed Feb 6, 1897
Reopened Mar 1, 1905,
and closed April 13, 1970

Locations
- First Location- Sec. 34, Twp. 1, Rge. 6, W2 - 1890-08-01
- Sec. 30, Twp. 1, Rge. 6, W2 - 1905-03-01
- In The Town Store

Postmaster Information:

Postmaster	Appointment date	Vacancy date	Cause of Vacancy
Hilliard Edwin Price	1890-08-01	1893-01	*
Neil Gow	1893-05-01	1894-04-02	Resignation
George Frederick Gow	1894-07-01	1897-01-29	Resignation, Closed
Matthew (Matt) T. Knight	1905-03-01	1909-08-30	Resignation
Joseph Taylor	1909-12-01	1911-04-07	Resignation
O. Chesworth	1911-05-26	1916-02-29	Resignation
Archibald Dan Rose	1916-05-22	1923-04-14	Resignation
William H. Duncan	1923-06-30	1926-06-30	Death
Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan	1926-12-14	1944-04-04	Resignation
Mrs. Hazel Girtus Nash, nee Vaughn	1944-04-05	Acting	-
Mrs. Hazel Girtus Nash, nee Vaughn	1944-05-10	1945-11	Resignation
Anson Dwight Stoner	1945-12-01	Acting	-
Anson Dwight Stoner	1946-07-18	1946-07-26	Resignation
George Nicholas Vetter	1946-09-01	Acting	-
George Nicholas Vetter	1946-12-23	1948-11-11	Resignation
Peter Olsen	1948-11-16	Acting	-
Peter Olsen	1949-02-28	1953-04-29	Resignation
Harold M. Babbings	1953-05-09	Acting	-
Harold M. Babbings	1953-09-09	1957-10-30	Resignation
Harry Hiram Corneil	1957-12-01	Acting	-
Miss Lois Alice Babbings	1958-01-23	Acting	(Postmaster General)
Miss Lois Alice Babbings	1959-02-03	-	-

Source: PSFDS03-10889 National Archives of Canada

Bios and Genealogy of Postmasters above

Hilliard Edwin Price

First Postmaster
b- Mar 26, 1861, Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois, USA
d- ?
Father -Donald Price, born in ON, died before 1891
Mother- Mary Beckton, age 62 in 1891, b- Scotland
Mary's Father born in England, Mother- Scotland
Sister- Nellie Hilliard, age 26, born in ON
- Hilliard's Wife- Margaret Gow,
  - b- Apr 11, 1870, Ontario
- Daughter- Elizabeth (Bessie) May Price,
  - b- July 10, 1894 at Coalfields SK
  - (in BC Vital records her name is Elizabeth Mary Clare, born in Estevan SK, died Jan 31, 1955 in Prince George BC. Her spouse was Stephen Joseph Clare)
- Son- Malcolm (Mack) Price,
  - b- Aug 3, 1896 in USA
- Son- Russell Aubrey Price,
  - b-July 15, 1898 in Estevan SK
- Daughter- Zena (Ena) Price,
  - b- 1902 in Alberta
- Daughter- Edna Price,
  - b- 1904 in Alberta
- Daughter- Millie Price,
  - b- 1906 in Alberta
- Daughter- Elna Price,
  - b- 1909 in Alberta
- another Daughter Alice Eleanor Price, b- 1911 in Irvine AB,
  - married Adam Ramsey, who was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland,
  - married June 4, 1932 in Vancouver BC
Hilliard was single in 1891 census, Age 28, born in 1863 in USA, Free Church religion, living in Broadview, Assiniboia East, Sub Dist 11 & 12.
shown as a rancher
1901 census shown born Mar 26, 1862 in USA, living in NW Medicine Hat, Assiniboia West (AB), Occupation shown as restaurant
1906 census, age 41, living in Irving AB at Section 30, Township 11, Range 3, W4, Shown immigrated from US in 1867
1911 Census, age 46, SE Section 26, Township 11, Range 3, W4, Scotch nationality, Anglican religion
Alberta homestead records say Section 36, township 11, Range 3, W4

Neil Gow

b- July 1867 in ON
Gow family came from Morris MB
I believe he married Ida Mary Hulse in Winnipeg Oct 29, 1890
in 1911 living on Woodlawn St in Winnipeg shown as a well driller

George Frederick Gow

b- July 10, 1835 at Portsmouth England,
baptized July 19, 1835 at Saint Thomas, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
d- Apr 15, 1911 in Winnipeg MB, age 75
Father- John Gow
Mother- Margaret Paterson
I believe he had a sister named Ann Gow
Married and had 6 children
- Wife- Elizabeth Gow, b- 1833 or 1834 in Ontario
- son- Frederick (Fred) George Gow,
  - b-1858 or 1859 in Ontario, died July 17, 1937 in Winnipeg
  - who married Isabella (Bella) Brown
1871 census living in Macaulay, Muskoka, Ontario
1891 census living in Subdistrict of Youville, district of Provencher, MB

He was a Businessman, Farmer, Hotelier, and Indian agent. At the age of seventeen he accompanied his family to Canada West from Ireland, where he had spent his childhood. In 1878 the Conservative Government appointed him Indian Agent at Winnipeg but he resigned the position within a few months to become proprietor of the Morris House, Morris, Manitoba, where he combined farming with his hotel business for fifteen years. He moved to Estevan and was in the coal business there for twelve years. He then returned to Winnipeg, operating a real estate and insurance business until his retirement.

He was on the committee of the St George's Society in Winnipeg MB, ca 1879

Matthew (Matt) T. Knight

(Died Nov 1913)
wife- Francis Townsend

Archibald Dan Rose

b- Nov 2, 1887, in Strood Kent, England,
d- Mar 22, 1968 in Medicine Hat, AB
age 28 in 1916 census
Immigrated in 1906
son of Frank Rose and Louisa Waddel
- wife- Lily Prescott Rose, nee Dutton,
  - b- Oct 6, 1895, Kent England, age 21
  - d- Dec 5, 1987, in Redcliffe, AB
Immigrated in 1912
- daughter- Doris J. Rose, b- SK, age 2
- son- Norman Cecil Rose, b- in SK, age 9 mo

William H. Duncan

b- 1877,
died June 30, 1926,
buried in Estevan City Cemetery

Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan

b- Dec 1882

Mrs. Hazel Girtus Nash, nee Vaughn

b- Nov 16, 1906 on Sec 6-Tsp 7-Rge 8- W2nd, SK,
d- Nov 10, 1994
daughter of Charles (Charlie) Thomas Vaughn, and Ethel Bruce Vaughn,
- Charles Thomas Vaughan
  - b- July 1878, in Ontario,
  - d- May 8, 1946
  - buried in Estevan City Cemetery.
- His wife was Ethel Bruce VanStyck. (VanSlyck)
  - Ethel is buried in Souris Valley Memorial Gardens, Estevan.
The Vaughn's moved from Stoughton to Estevan in 1909.
Lived on a farm south of the City, by the Souris River

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