Dunbar Frank

1%20FFcovericon2_110.gifMr. Dunbar was my closest neighbor when I batched on the homestead. He came to Ferguson Flats around 1931. His land was NW. 1/4 Sec. 3, Twp. 58, Range 5, west of the 4th. Mr. Dunbar had bought that land some years before but had never lived on it. His wife had suffered a stroke before they came there and her hands were very crippled. Mr. Dunbar had worked for years as a bridge builder for the Canadian National Railways but was laid off in the start of the depression. He had worked on some big bridges throughout Canada.

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Mr and Mrs Frank Dunbar

He was in his early 50's when he came to the Flats. They had a very tough life in the Flats as they were without money when they came. They had one daughter married to a R.C.M.P. Sec. and living in Ottawa. I only saw her once when she came up to visit her parents. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar have died since I left there in 1938.