John Duncan

1865 - 1952  (87 years)

• Name	John Duncan  [1]
  Birth	23 Apr 1865	Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _FGLINK	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107554192
  _FGRAVE	107554192
  _FSFTID	LLHN-KR8
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LLHN-KR8
  _TAG	Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
  Burial	1952	Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada
  	Address: 2120 4th. Avenue Regina, Regina Census Division,, Saskatchewan Canada
  	Plot: 141 - Row 2-12 - Just North-East of Soldiers Plot, Just East of 3rd St. & 4th. Ave., 4th. Row
  		John Duncan 1865-1952 Jessie Adams 1873-1925 Jessie Steel 1870-1912
  Death	13 Jul 1952	Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada   [1]
  	?b?John Duncan Pioneer succumbs ?/b?John Duncan, 87, a retired farmer of the south Regina district near Rowatt died Sunday in a Regina hospital. Funeral arrange ments by Speers will be announced Later. Mr. Duncan was born at Almonte, Ont. and came to Regina in 1890. He. filed on a homestead on the south Regina plains and has lived there since. In 1912 (1903 correction) he returned to Almonte and marrled Jessie Steel, who died in 1912. In 1917 (1916 correction) he married Jessie Adams, Vancouver, who predeceased him in 1925. Surviving Mr. Duncan are three sons, Willis, 2140 Wascana street, James S. of Montreal and Vancouver, a C.P.R. official, Johnston is on the farm, one daughter Miss Mary E. of Vancouver, and six grandchildren. Also surviving is a brother, Albert Duncan, operator of Duncan's Drug store, and two sisters, Mrs. T. A. Paterson of Almonte, Ont., and Mrs. Ben Holden, Calgary. Mr. Duncan was predeceased by three brothers, Edward at Almonte in 1951, James former sheriff of Regina, who died in 1339, and William, H. Duncan, who died in Regina in 1948. John Duncan was one of the founders of Sherwood Presbyterian church, now United church, and was an official in that congre gation for many years.
  Person ID	I2908	The Family History of Robert Duncan a Lanark Society Settler
  Last Modified	28 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	James Duncan,   b. 12 Jun 1825, Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West d. 5 Aug 1909, Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Lockhart,   b. 14 Feb 1833, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d. 19 Jan 1905, Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	31 Mar 1854	Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
  	Married by the Rev. J. K. Smith
  Family ID	F804	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jessie Mary Adams,   b. 13 Sep 1871, Kemptville, Leeds & Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada d. 1925 (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	21 Oct 1916	Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
  Family ID	F2376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Jessie I. Steele,   b. 18 Jun 1870, Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 26 Feb 1912, Saskatchewan, Canada (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	30 Jul 1903	Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  Children	1. James Steele "Jim" Duncan,   b. 1904, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   2. Mary Elizabeth Duncan,   b. 26 Nov 1905, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada d. Yes, date unknown   3. Johnstone Eric Duncan,   b. 28 Dec 1907, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada d. 25 Sep 1977, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada (Age 69 years)   4. Willis Alexander Duncan,   b. 29 Jul 1910, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada d. 23 Sep 1998, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F1020	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 23 Apr 1865 - Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada Marriage - 30 Jul 1903 - Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Marriage - 21 Oct 1916 - Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada Burial - Address: 2120 4th. Avenue Regina, Regina Census Division,, Saskatchewan Canada - 1952 - Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada Death - 13 Jul 1952 - Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  JOHN DUNCAN John Duncan son of James and Elizabeth (Lockhart) Duncan was born on April 19th 1865 in Ramsay Township Lot 10 Concession 11, near Almonte Ontario. John married Jessie Steele of Ramsay in 1903. They had four children all born in Regina, Saskatchewan, James (Jim), Mary ,Johnston and Willis. In Regina when mother died in 1905. Memories of My Father John Duncan by his oldest son Jim. In his earlier days on his parents farm, he helped with various chores and farm work. During the winters as he reached his late teens he went to the bush to haul logs with a team of horses. He commented about a spring when returning home there was a track on the snow over the ice on the river; the track on the snow started to rot in the spring thaw and one of the horses broke through the ice and was nearly lost. I failed to pay the attention I should have of his earlier days. He arrived in Regina in 1890 and here filed on a homestead. Farming at that time on the Regina plains was about as primitive as the early days in Ontario except the land was very flat, few trees or stones to clear. As other Homesteaders of that time he broke his land with a hand plough, which was single share controlled by two curved handles at the back for the operator to gage the depth he wanted. The plough was hauled by horses, the reins secured around his waist so his hands were free to guide the plough. Two acres a day was a good days work; homesteaders often hired out to do breaking for others pay ranging from five to ten cents an acre. In later years I always admired his adapt way of handling and binding the loose stalks of grain. The grain having been cut with a sythe and bound together to make a sheaf. This was before binders and threshing mills. Father talked of threshing grain in the winter, the engine from which they got the power and the separator having to be hauled by horses. Our house was small but it had a big kitchen, large enough to feed a threshing crew of twenty men. The farmers had a "Beef Ring" each farmer provided a beef animal in rotation and in rotation they accepted their turn at each cut of beef. The butcher was another farmer who got a free ride in that he didn't have to provide a beef. In February of 1912 our mother died and my father's sister came and looked after us for some years. For the first twenty-one years of my life father saw a great deal of me and I of him, seemed to me that my father and all his brothers were mild mannered men who were able to accept their setbacks and proceed as though nothing much had happened to dampen their optimism. Johnston my brother who had remained on the farm with our father took over the farm when father retired.

  
  

• Sources

  [S40] Saskatchewan. Regina., Newspapers: The Leader-Post, Regina, "John Duncan Pioneer Succumbs," 14 Jul 1952, p. 3; digital images : accessed 28 Dec 2021), The Leader-Post. (Reliability: 3).