Marjorie Winnifred Owens

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• Alt. Birth: High Bluffs, Manitoba, Canada

Marjorie married Wilbur Edgar Breadner on 30 Jul 1932 in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. Wilbur (son of John Henry Breadner and Elizabeth Bell) was born on 26 Oct 1907; died on 5 Jul 1992 in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. J.L. Breadner
2. L.B. Breadner
3. R.C. Breadner

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Emily Campbell Price notes:

"farmer"

Herbert married Christina Belle Campbell on 23 Nov 1904. Christina (daughter of John Howard Campbell and Mary Campbell) was born on 21 Jun 1880 in Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada; died on 29 Sep 1977. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Resided: 31 Mar 1901, Macdonald, Manitoba, Canada
• Resided: 1911, Portage la Prairie Sub-Districts 1-51, Manitoba, Canada
• Resided: 1926, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada

John married Sarah Ann Henderson. Sarah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Resided: 1906, 11, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada
• Resided: 1911, Portage la Prairie Sub-Districts 1-51, Manitoba, Canada

Notes:

Emily Campbell Price notes p. 19:

"Two more of the children of John and Christine (McFarlane) Campbell married descendants of MALCOLM; their dau. Chatherine Jane, m. Niel's son James; their son, John Howard Campbell, married Mary daughter of Peter, son of Malcolm."

John married Mary Campbell on 16 Jul 1879 in Howard Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Peter Campbell and Isabel McLarty) was born on 16 Aug 1853 in Howard Twp., Kent County, Ontario, Canada; died on 27 May 1944 in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Portage la Prairie, Portage la Prairie Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Resided: 31 Mar 1901, Macdonald, Manitoba, Canada
• Resided: 1911, Portage la Prairie Sub-Districts 1-51, Manitoba, Canada

Notes:

Notes from "The Family of James Stephens:"

Mary was born on July 24, 1851, on a farm located on the 12th concession of Howard, Kent County, Ontario. She attended the one-room Slabtown school. After her school days were over, she took a three month course in dress making. doing the sewing for the family occupied most of her time but she also help with the spinning and weaving and other arts of homemaking. A happy gathering place for the young folk of the area was the "Singing-school", and there Mary developed a good singing voice. She also took music lessons and learned to play the organ.

When she was 25, Mary married John Howard Campbell, son of John and Christena Campbell who lived near London but were not releated. Howard was employed at the Kent Flour Mills at Chatham which was owned and operated by two of Mary's cousions, Archibald and John Campbell. Howard bought a nice house in Chatham and Mary was quite proud of her new home with the white picket fence around it. They did not live long in Chatham though, for John found the work amidst the dust and flour did not agree with him. He was offerred a partnership in the mill but still felt he should give it up; so in 1882 with his wife and little daughter Christena, he joined the other members of the Peter Campbell family in their trip by train to Manitoba.

They took with them some furniture and some livestock, including a pure bred cow given to them by Mary's father, and a dapple grey horse, a gift of her uncle Mac Campbell. The horse was supposed to have a touch of the heaves, but in Manitoba the climate must have had a good effect for the heaves were gone, and Mary's duaghters rode and drove him, for many years.

The train trip to Manitoba was not a pleasant one for the train was dirty, and their clothes were soon soiled and there was no place to get them washed. In Winipeg they stayed at a boarding house which wasn't very clean either, so they eagerly looked forward to reaching their destination, a farm about fifteen miles from Portage la Prairie. Much to their dismay, when they reached the little two room log cabin which was to be their home, they found it filled with bushels and bushels of wheat left by the homesteader who had live there previously. For several weeks they were the guests of neighbors living across the road while Howard disposed of the wheat.

There on that pioneer farm Howard and Mary farmed with much success for fifty years. They kept large herds of cattle, and for many years Howard was noted for the fine seed grain which he raised and sold. About 1889 he had a new frame house built which was still in good repair in the mid ninteen sixties.

In the early days Mary and the children stayed in town with her parents during the winter, while Howard worked in the bush near High Bluff getting the year's supply of wood. The children went to school in Portage la Pairie for as yet there was no nearby church or school. Life on the prairies was pretty lonely, and Mary often said she didn't know how she could have stayed had it not been for the folk who lived across the road. In the summer there were picnics and it wa fun picking wild fruit that grew so plentifully. She loved working in the garden and took pride in her housekeeping; she was noted for her canned fruits, pickles, mincemeat, and her specialty, cooked meats.

Mary had been a member of the Disciple Church in Ridgetown which her grandfathers, McLarty and Campbell, had both helped to organize. Soon a church of that denomination was started in Portag la Prairie and she became an active worker there too.

After her husband's death on September 30, 1930, Mary left the farm and lived in Portage la Prairie, boarding for a time but, for the most part, living with her two daughers, Christena and Maud. She passed away on May 27, 1944 and was buried in Hillside Cemetary, Portage la Prairie.

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John married Christine McFarlane. Christine and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigrated: 12 Jul 1821, Herkimer County, New York
• Immigrated: 4 May 1830, Canada

Notes:

Ted Lollis Notes:

1882 (December 15) - "Going with full speed from our old home to the westward" 

Retiring farmer Peter CAMPBELL writes on arriving in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, to his nephew Malcolm CAMPBELL in Kent County, Ontario.

Letter dated 15 Dec 1882 from Peter CAMPBELL (age 63) in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, probably to his nephew Malcolm CAMPBELL (age 39) in Howard Township, Ontario, Canada:

Portagelaprairie Dec,-15-/82

Manatoba
Mr Malcom Campbell

Dear Nephew

We take this oppertunity to give a breaf but short descrption of our journy to those parts.

after we left Ridgetown, the next place we cald at was Charingcrss. only halted there few minets. then the iron horse snorted and off we all were to Essuckes Center. a short delay ther. and then away to Amisburg. we ware delaid here merely an hour before we crosed the river.

and after that, we only halted a few minets at several stations till we got in to Detroit where I found the present that I received from my FRIENDS of grate service in giving me the time of the day. altho it was night, the station house and the surroundings wer lighted up with ellectrick light wich made the senery all around the station looke very beautiful.

we left the city on our journy west at half past ten. the darkenss prvent us from seeing much mor, and sleep also, till dalight appeard. in the morning we were in sight of part of the south east part of Lake Michigan and an extencive open plain to the south of us. the soil for some distance along the lake was white drifting sand up to Michigan City. the land around this city lookes very baron. it aperes to be supported by the lumber trade. the banks of the lake are very low for some distance and in many places the land is low and marshey.

at last we reached the Grate Meteroplas of the west at nine in the morning. we were convaid from one station to anothe station in buses a ditance of two or three miles. all this distance the streets appear to be swiming with Human Beings of different classes and shades. the central station in this city is a very costly and butiful building.

at eleven oclock the cry was all on bord, and we found our selves in a few minits going with full speed futher from our old HOME to the westward. along this road for som distance there were some very find looking land, and there appard to be a large portion of it under cultivation. the shades of night coming on hid from our vew the appearence of the country that we went through in the darkness, and also a grand and romantic vew of the bulworks of nature along that grate River the Missippy. the weathe was bright and lovely.

at six oclock on friday morninge we hoved in sight of Stpauls situated on the, Missippy river, wich takes a turn to the north here. they have built a large union station for the acomadation of the diferent roads in this city. at night time we turned to the north for the land of frost and snow and wheat an barly oats and potatoes.

along for some distance through Menisota the country is broken with small lakes for the distance of one or tow hundred miles. the prairie along in these parts is roling. and the soil dont appear to bee so fertile as in some other places.

we got to Winipeg at eight oclock on Saturday morning. and the city appears to me to bee half as big again as it was last Year when we were here. on bored again on the cars at ten oclock An for our destination.

got to the portage at twelve oclock noon Saturday. found all the friends well. Howard moved too the town tow weeks before we arrived here. we will live in the one house this winter. Howard is out thrashing his grain. he thinks that he will have tow or three thousand bush.

the weather is very cold these days. Merquery down tow 37 below ZERO.

Lonzo Springted was at our house last night. says he had a good crop of grain. the boom is all over in those parts.

three of the boys is working in the mill. Mary has a young daughter.

Yours Truly

Peter Campbell

PS write home

let us know what Enca [?] thought of the country

This letter was copied in 1967 by Errett Campbell HAMILTON [1890-1974] of La Canada, CA, but where he obtained it or where the original is today are unknown. The copy he made is brown and has the following note typed across the top:

Copy which I (Errett Hamilton) had made 2/14/67 of my grandfather's letter of 12/15/1882 describing his trip from Ridgetown to Portage la Prairie earlier that year

Transcribed 01 Jan 1999 by Edward Wesley LOLLIS II.

Peter CAMPBELL [1819-1915] married to Isabel McLARTY [1824-1917], both of whom are buried in Portage la Prairie, MB.

Peter had two "Malcom" nephews:

Malcolm CAMPBELL [1843- 1922], then age 39, married to Sarah Ann CAMPBELL [1843- 1907], both of whom are buried in Morpeth, ON.

Malcolm CAMPBELL [1851-1896], then age 31, married to Robina MUNRO [1856-1919], both of whom are buried in Blenheim, ON.

Alonzo SPRINGSTEEN [c1850-1902] married to Catherine Amantha McDIARMID [1856-1913]. Peter is not directely related to Alonzo or to Catherine, but Catherine is a neice of Peter's wife Isabel McLARTY. Alonzo (& Catherine?) arrived from Ontario only the previous April.

John Howard (Howard) CAMPBELL [1852-1930] married to Mary CAMPBELL [1853-1944], both of whom are buried in Portage La Prairie, MB. Peter is not directly related to Howard, but Mary is Peter's daughter and Howard is therefore his son-in-law.

Winnifred Maud (Maud) CAMPBELL [1882-1975], born in Portage La Prairie 15 Dec 1882, second of the seven children born to Howard & Mary CAMPBELL.

"Three of the boys" refers to three of Peter's four oldest sons:

Archibald Peter (AP) CAMPBELL [1846-1930], then age 36

Malcolm Benjamin (Mack) CAMPBELL [1857-1943), then age 25

Peter Neil (Neil) CAMPBELL [1859-1940], then age 23

Edward (Ed) CAMPBELL [1862-1954], then age 20

Peter married Isabel McLarty on 6 Feb 1845 in Morpeth, Howard Twp, Kent County, ON, Canada. Isabel (daughter of Archibald McLarty and Isabel Thompson) was born on 20 Sep 1824 in Argyllshire, Scotland; died on 11 May 1917 in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Portage la Prairie, Portage la Prairie Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigrated: Canada
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• Resided: 31 Mar 1901, L, Macdonald, Manitoba, Canada

Notes:

George Stephens notes:

"Isabel was born September 20, 1824 in Argyllshire, Scotland. She was almost seven years old when she emigrated to Canada with her parents. She had a few memories of Scotland, however, for she used to tell of having visited the Castle of the Duke of Argyll when she was a little girl.

Schools were few in Howard where the family settled after emigrating to Canada so Isabel never rceived any formal education. Gaelic was her native tongue, but she learned to speak English, and to read printed matter. She never learned to write however, or to read script.

Isabel was married on February 6, 1845, to Peter Campbell, a young farmer who lived near the village of Morpeth. After their marriage, Peter and Isabel lived on the original Campbell homestead on the 12th concession of Howard. Here their eleven children were born, one son and one daughter dying in infancy.

One day they were left homeless when the house caught fire and burned. It seemed to start in the attic, so it was thought at the time that a pigeon had probably carried a match to it's nest under the roof. A new house was built hurriedly, not much to their liking, but it was home to the Campbells for many years.

Peter kept a lot of livestock on his farm, - horses, pigs, cattle, sheep, and at one time oxen. Sometimes he would hitch the oxen to a sleigh and tkae the family to prayer meeting.

Accomplished in spinning, weaving, and amking clothing for her family, Isabel also wove straw and made hats for her sons. Home-made tallow candles were in common use up to the time of the kerosene lamp. Of their first lamp, now a prized posession of a great-grandaughter, Marjorie Breadner, Isabel used to tell her grandchildren how they were all afraid of it at first, and were cautioned by their father to stand well back when he lighted it.

In the year 1882, the family moved to Portage La Prarie, Manitoba. They bought farm land which the sons worked, but Peter did not farm any more. He was crippled with rheumatism for many years, and Isabel was feet for him as well as eyes, for in the later years of his life he became totally blind. He passed away in his 97th year, on the 5th of December, 1915.

Isabel was remembered by those who knew her as having a "sweet" disposition, and of being always calm and serene even under trying circumstances. She had eyes of blue like those of her mother, and was delighted when a new grandchild arrived with blue eyes like hers.

In writing about his mother, her son, Rev George A. Campbell said: "She early came to know that it was best to meet difficulties with a cheerful mind. But she had too, the Christian secret. Much of her serenity was doubtless, due to her temperment and common-snese program of life; but, besides, she had the secret of the peace that passeth understanding. Her daily devotions, her loyalty to the church, her kindly ministrations, her loe of Christ, gave a grace and dignity that caused her children to rise up and call her blessed. She knew nothing of the latest books, but she knew the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", and the hymn book, and these gave her a chaste taste. She was far from being a graduate nurse, yet she ministered at beds of sickness most helpfully, to her husband, and to mny others."

Isabel was in good health and quite active even after she reached the age of ninety. She liked to go to the store to do her own shoppingand she liked to go and have a cup of tea with a neighbor.

She died of pneumonia on May 11, 1917, in her 93rd year. Hillside Cemetery at Portage La Prarie is the burial place of Isabel and her husband Peter.