| 1. | John Duncan was born on 23 Apr 1865 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 13 Jul 1952 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in 1952 in Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. Other Events and Attributes:
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- _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
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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.
Died:
?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.
Buried:
Plot: 141 - Row 2-12 - Just North-East of Soldiers Plot, Just East of 3rd St. & 4th. Ave., 4th. Row
John married Jessie Mary Adams on 21 Oct 1916 in Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. Jessie was born on 13 Sep 1871 in Kemptville, Leeds & Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada; died in 1925; was buried in Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
John married Jessie I. Steele on 30 Jul 1903 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Jessie (daughter of John Steele and Mary Johnston) was born on 18 Jun 1870 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 26 Feb 1912 in Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. James Steele "Jim" Duncan
 was born in 1904 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; and died.
- 3. Mary Elizabeth Duncan was born on 26 Nov 1905 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; and died.
- 4. Johnstone Eric Duncan was born on 28 Dec 1907 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; died on 25 Sep 1977 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 5. Willis Alexander Duncan was born on 29 Jul 1910 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; died on 23 Sep 1998 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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1865 - 1952 (87 years)
