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- Birth Registration copy 1886-437-0023
Name: James Hamilton Easton
Date of Birth: 06 Dec 1886 7 H, 0 m AM
Place of Birth: West Kilmany, Kilmany, Fife, Scotland
Male,
Parents: James Easton, ploughman & Janet Easton MS Hamilton
Marriage: 27 May 1885 Leuchars, Fife
Informant: James Easton, Father, signed
Registered: 25 Dec 1886 at Rathiller, Kilmany J. Geddes, Registrar
1891 Scotland Census
Canadian Passenger List - aboard Scotian vessel, Arrival Date 03 Sep 1911, Quebec, Canada
Easton, James, Age 24, Single, not been to Canada before, Intends to live here, Birthplace Scotland, Race of People Scotch, Destination Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ploughman, Farming x 8 yrs, Presbyterian, Travelling inland via Canadian Pacific Rail
Alberta Land Grant
Liber 699 Folio, 266 File Reel #C 6494
NW35, 34,14, W4
1916 Canada Census Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta
Easton, James, Male, Scotch, Cdn, Age 30, Single, Birth Year 1886, Birthplace: Scotland, Year of Immigration: 1910, Home in 1916: Bow River, Alberta
Address: 34,14,4 Sullivan Lake, Alberta
1921 Canada Census, Alberta, Bow River, Sub District 44
Easton, James, Age 35, 34Twp 14 Range, 4 Meridian, Owns home, Structure, Wood, 1 room, Head, Male, Married, Age 34, Birthplace Scotland, Parents Birthplace Scotland, Immigrated 1910, Religion Presbyterian, Occupation Farmer, owns his farm
Easton, Janet, Wife, Female, Married, Age 35, Birthplace Scotland, Parents Birth Scotland, Immigrated 1916
Easton, Janet, Daughter, Female, Single, Age 3, Birthplace Alberta, Parents Scotch,
1926 Prairie Provinces Census, Canada Sullivan Lake, Acadia Page 19 Lines 38 - 41
James Easton, Male, Married, Head, Age 38, Birthplace Scotland, Immigration Yr:1910
Janet Easton, Female, Wife, Age 39, Birthplace Scotland
Janet Easton, Female, Daughter, Age 8, Birthplace Alberta
David A J Easton, Male, Son, Age 1, Birthplace Alberta
Nickname 'Jimmy"
Jimmy immigrated to Canada in 1908.(per son Dave.)
Jimmy and Janet Easton first settled in the Garden Plains area, where Jimmy had bought land for farming, as well as worked shifts in a coal mine there. (Bob Unsworth mine & Bradshaw Mines) The Coal mining area of Paintearth, Garden Plains, Tofield / Donalda area and Drumhellar Valley were all excellent sources of this fuel. Interesting enough, quite a different coal than the seams that were mined in Scotland that Grampa Dave Wilkie worked. Also of note, that when miners volunteered for War duty in WWI and WWII, at training camp, many were asked if there were any miners among them and when they (miners) stepped forward were promptly told that they were absolved of fighting a war, but must return to the mines - as the War effort required that fuel.
After a few years there, they sold and moved to Castor, where Jimmy contd. to work for Remillard mines (coal) west of Castor. As his years advanced, Jimmy found odd jobs wherever he could and was never without work.
He loved to chew snoose and he and Grampa Dave Wilkie, my father Andrew Wilkie would get together and recall Scotland with other Scottish residents in Castor, such as Haydens, Walkers. New Years was a particularly regular day of getting together to toast Auld Lang Syne. One individual would start out and then join another until they had visited each ones' home for a nip of cheer. These families friendship remained and were often enjoying one anothers hospitality via meals together, special holiday get togethers like Robbie Burns Day, birthdays, masonic lodge affairs, anniversaries, Christmas and New Years.
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My Scottish "Wilkie" Family
1886 - 1969 (82 years)
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Immigration to Canada
