{"id":5881,"date":"2013-11-26T16:21:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aql.mhe.mybluehost.me\/website_52ec5361\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2019-11-02T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T16:29:34","slug":"wishart-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wishart.org\/index.php\/wishart-saskatchewan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief History of Wishart, Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The town of Wishart, Saskatchewan was named for of its earliest settlers, a Robert Wishart, who was of Scottish descent and the first homesteader in a district known as the Round Plain area.<\/p>\n

Robert is part of Wishart Tree 034 and was born in Guelph, Ontario on 23 May 1847. \u00a0He was the fourth son of John Wishart, a ship\u2019s carpenter from Edinburgh, and Jessie McKean.\u00a0 Robert\u2019s parents emigrated to Canada within a year of their marriage in 1833 and settled in Eramosa Township in Wellington County, Ontario where John became a farmer.<\/p>\n

In 1870, whilst working as a mason, Robert became a Private in the 1st Ontario Rifles, Second Company and had ventured westwards with the Red River Expeditionary Force who were soldiers collected from the Militia Units of Quebec and Ontario in early 1870 for service in the Northwest. They were to “show the Flag” in Rupert’s Land (the new Province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories).\u00a0 It was possibly during this period that \u2018Mahogany Bob\u2019 got his first look at the area in which he would finally live.<\/p>\n

Robert was discharged from military service in Winnipeg during 1871 and married Clementina McLean the following year in Portage Le Prairie.\u00a0 They had four children in Manitoba before temporarily heading back to Ontario where by February 1880, they had been living in Fergus Falls.\u00a0 Later that year Robert left Ontario having been granted land in the Touchwood Hills, about 90 miles from Fort Qu\u2019Appelle and arrived via Portage Le Prairie by oxon. \u00a0He worked raising horses and cattle and initially lived with his family in a log cabin, however three years later he constructed a sturdier house made from hewn logs.\u00a0 The brick, finishing lumber, flooring and lime used in the new domicile had to be hauled from Qu\u2019Appelle.\u00a0 Five Wishart children were subsequently born at the Wishart homestead, including the first European child in the area, who was appropriately named Robert Touchwood Wishart.<\/p>\n

Robert helped build the first local school, known as the Round Plains school, and also the first church in 1888 (prior to which, services had been held in Robert\u2019s home.)\u00a0 Rubies had been discovered on the property whilst digging a well for the homestead, however none were ever found in sufficient quantities to warrant selling them.<\/p>\n

Two stories concerning Robert and his family in this period have survived and were recounted in a history of Dauphin Valley published by the Dauphin Historical Society in 1970.<\/p>\n

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Occupational hazards such as Indians during the Riel Rebellion and prairie fires were events from which the family escaped relatively easily.\u00a0 John Wishart as a small boy was given the task of bringing home the cows: one night, he saw a prairie fire raging in a strong wind.\u00a0 He knew he couldn\u2019t drive the cattle fast enough to stay ahead of it so he burned a patch of grass, and drove them on to that.\u00a0 He and the cattle stood there in complete safety on their little black island while the big fire burned past them and went on its destructive way, leaving a black sea in its wake.<\/p>\n

Another story of the Wishart family would indicate that they had a large amount of a \u201cpresence of mind\u201d.\u00a0 Mrs Wishart was a real horsewoman and would take her turn at rounding up the cattle.\u00a0 On one such occasion her horse threw her as it fell, right in front of a bad tempered bull.\u00a0 As he prepared to attack her, Mrs Wishart threw herself on the ground, facing him, and when he approached she coolly produced the pistol she invariably carried when thus employed, and shot the animal dead in his tracks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By 1891, having survived successive years of drought, and continuing shortage of feed for his stock, Robert made the decision to move the family to the Dauphin Valley, which had a reputation for \u2018luxuriant growth\u2019 and ample water supply.\u00a0 With Clementina and his ten children in tow, Robert left in May with a buckboard, two wagons, horses and cattle.\u00a0 The Wisharts passed through Yorkton on the 24th<\/sup> before travelling over one hundred miles along rough prairie trails to Dauphin, where they arrived on 4 June 1891.<\/p>\n

Less than a year later, Clementina died in Dauphin on 28 March 1892.\u00a0 Eight years later, on 28 June 1900 in Simcoe, Ontario, Robert married a Maria Lister from Fergus Falls.\u00a0 Maria lived with her husband and stepchildren in Dauphin until 2 March 1904 when she died.\u00a0 Robert died five years later on 29 December 1908.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Photographs of Wishart, Saskatchewan taken by Scott Wishart in 1996.<\/p><\/h5><\/div>

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All images \u00a9 Scott Wishart, 1996<\/p>\n<\/div>

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