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Historical Date/s: early 1930's Type of Event: Kindersley, first swimming pool
The Travellers Association of Kindersley raised money in the
early 1930's to build an outdoor heated swimming pool on the east side
just south of the arena. One of the fund raisings included one armed
bandits. My father brought it home. It was not possible to adjust the the
machine so it would give back as much money as it was given. This was a
good gambling lesson for teen agers. The swimming pool was finished and
most of the young and some of the old learned to swim. I left in 1937 so
do not know what became of it.
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Submitter: Lowrie McLarty Email: jmclarty@wi.rr.com
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Historical Date/s: 1902 Type of Event: Bruno
In the fall of 1902, the Reverend Bruno Doerfler, a Benedictine
Father and organizer of
the mass migration of German American families, joined a group of
seventeen families
who left the states to answer the call to go to Canada. Among these
families were Johann
Dominikus Tegenkamp and his wife, Theresia Huesman. Also, Mr. Henry Dust
who was
connected to the Tegenkamp family by marriage. German immigrants, or
first generation
descendants of German immigrants, these two families relocated to Canada
from
Effingham County, Illinois.
With these families, Reverend Bruno Doerfler started a new religious
colony in
Saskatchewan. It was to have been called St. Bruno, because of the postal
address in St.
Bruno, Quebec, the name of Bruno for the new settlement was decided upon.
Approximately 3 years later, John Tegenkamp’s nephew, Henry Herman
Tegenkamp, his
wife, Katherine Anne Arnzen, and the first two of their nine children
relocated to Bruno.
The reason they left the United States was that they were land tenents
and had the
misfortune of having a house fire in which they lost almost everthing.
Mr. Henry Dust
was just back from Canada and he encouraged them to go to Canada, where
the land was
cheap and they had a chance to make a freah start.
In 1905, the railroad was built through Bruno, and in 1906, a small log
school was built,
and the population began to grow, as did the Tegenkamp and Dust families,
both familiar
names in the area still today.
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Submitter: Email: oh_stop_it@hotmail.com
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Historical Date/s: 1920-30's Type of Event: Kindersley
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