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1882-1912

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offering to negotiate for the sale of the general store they were conducting.
On the 5th of June, 1899, I went to Saskatoon to investigate' it just took
twenty minutes for us to make a deal. I bought the stock at a rate on the
dollar and rented the building and on the 20th of the same month returned
to Saskatoon with one of my clerks to take stock preparatory to taking
over the business on the first of July. My family were to remain at Battle-
ford till I could arrange for their accommodation.

  The store building was twenty-five feet frontage going back about fifty
feet with a wooden shed at the back. It was built of stone boulders from
the river, was plastered inside and proved in winter to be very cold. The
second floor was divided into rooms and had been occupied by the owners
as a dwelling (1). The stock was not as large as I expected but was in
dreadful shape. The former owners were not trained storekeepers and did
not know how to take care of goods.


JAMES CLINSKILL, ABOUT 1907


   Saskatoon at this time consisted of a few houses on the east side of the
River. The original settlement had been on that side. When the railway
was built the station was placed on the other side of the river and a few
buildings were erected. These were the station house, the section foreman's
house, the barracks of the North West Mounted Police, the stone buildings
used by me as a store, a stopping house kept by the Kusch family, a "hotel'
run by Don Garrison and about six other houses and shacks. Soon after I
arrived a building was commenced north of me on First Avenue, which was
opened as a store by a firm in Prince Albert, Bradshaw I think the name
was.

  We set to work arranging our stock, cleaning out an accumulation of de-
bris that had gathered into the corners and getting into shape to do business
as we thought it should be done. After a visit to Winnipeg to purchase
goods, it was found the premises were entirely too small to accommodate
the stock and display it to advantage. I persuaded the owner, Mr. Leslie,
         
(1) The building now forms a portion of that Part of the Queen's Hotel
which fronts on First Avenue.
         
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