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High School, Manitoba University. Scotch ancestry; father born in Scotland; came to Canada and was a pioneer farmer of Perth county, coming west to Manitoba, where he homesteaded in the Hamiota district (a family of thirteen). Dr. Kerr taught school in Manitoba and was employed in Government survey work. Graduated in 1906; hospital work in Winnipeg; Maple Creek, 1907. Joined C.E.F., March, 1916; overseas. with 11th Fld. Amb.; France, Aug.. 10th 1916; Ypres Salient, Somme, Vimy Ridge, Paschendaele, Amiens, Arras and Cambrai, Canal du Nord Mons and Valenciennes. Awarded the M.C. (Vim; Ridge). Mentioned in, dispatches (Somme). Returned to Canada, May, 1919, resumed practice, M.H.O., Maple Creek. Member of the Saskatchewan Medical Association. Major Kerr is a Master Mason of No.9, Maple Creek Lodge, Royal Arch; I.O.O.F.. Presbyterian. Liberal. Address, Maple Creek. .

 

 

GEE: Ephraim A., Crown Prosecutor, Jud. Dist. Shaunavon (Gee & Hossie), barristers, solicitors. Born in Haldinand county, near Cayuga, 1879, a son of Hiram and Barbara (Hoover) Gee. Married Irene Schoales, 1915, and has two daughters. Educated at the rural schools of Haldimand county, and Hagersville High School. Comes of United Empire Loyalist stock; family settling in Lincoln county in 1790. Mother's people Pennsylvania Dutch stock. Taught school in early life in Rainham township. Came west in 1903 to Gainsborough, N.W.T. (mercantile business). Homesteaded. with his brother in the Tramping Lake District; worked in the Land Titles Office in Regina; articled in law to MacKenzie, Brown & Co., Regina, 1908-14. Admitted to the bar July 4, 1914. Came to Shaunavon and opened present practice. Formed partnership with J. C. Hossie in 1921. Appointed Crown. Prosecutor in 1918; chairman of the School Board three years. Solicitor for R. G. Dun & Co.,

 

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