Family History Index taken from the Rural Reflections, The History of
 Isabella & Blairs (1879 -1982)
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Donna Campbell

 
 
Adams, Austin 
 Adams, Robert James 
 Albertson, Frank 
 Allingham, James Edward 
 Allingham, S.H. 
 Amy, Fred 
 Amy, Lawrence and Dorothea 
 Amy, Lynn and Marlene 
 Andrew, S. 
 Apperley, Fred 
 Apperley, R. 
 Argyle, C. 
 Argyle, P. 
 Ariss, Charles 
 Ariss Clifford 
 Ariss, Ed. Sr. 
 Ariss, Edward and Elisa 
 Ariss George 
 Ariss, Thomas 
 Armbrust, John & Florence 
 Armitage, Don & Sandra 
 Armstrong, John Sr. 
 Armstrong, McKee 
 Armstrong, Minnie 
 Armstrong, William & James 
 Attwood, Bob 
 Attwood, Reg 
 Attwood, William
Baldwin, Bert & Mary 
 Baldwin, John George 
 Ball, Norman & Jean 
 Bardwell, W. 
 Batty 
 Beare, T. Morris 
 Bedford, Ernest 
 Bell, Dave & Kate 
 Bell, James & Coral 
 Bell, John 
 Bell, Murray & Phyllis 
 Bell, Robert 
 Bell, Stephen 
 Bell, William Jr. 
 Bell, William Sr. 
 Benn, Sioux 
 Bernard, Herbert & Marilyn 
 Beveridge, P.J. 
 Bingham, Joe 
 Blelloch, David 
 Blight, William C. 
 Bliss, J. 
 Bowman, Rev. H.I. 
 Bowman, Orvy & Edna 
 Boyce, Adam 
 Brad, A.E. 
 Brad, Buster & Lois 
 Bridge, Keith & Agnes 
 Bridge, M.J. 
 Bridge, Mervyn & Beryl 
 Brisbin, H. 
 Broadfoot, R.S. 
 Brown, Francis & Mary 
 Browning, Stuart & Clara 
 Bryant, Jack & Irene 
 Brydon, Walter & Diana 
 Buchanan, Robert W. & Mary 
 Buchanan, Mr.& Mrs. Butler Jack 
 Butler, Jack 
 Butler, J. Sid
Calder, Robert 
 Calder, R.H. & Florence 
 Campbell, Frank 
 Campbell, Gordon & Vivian 
 Campbell, Reginald 
 Campbell, R.L. 
 Carnegie, Don & Family 
 Carscadden, Lorne 
 Champion, H. 
 Chapman, Joe 
 Chapman, John & Margaret 
 Choptuik, William & Connie 
 Clark, Barry 
 Clark, Bill & Linda 
 Clark, Clare & Doreen 
 Clark, Clifford 
 Clark, Elmer & Evelyn 
 Clark, J. Allan 
 Clark, John 
 Clark, Ken & June 
 Clark, Robert G. 
 Clark, Robert T. 
 Clark, Ron & Irene 
 Clark, Russell T. 
 Clark, Sam 
 Clarke, Alex 
 Clubley, Andrew 
 Collins Family 
 Coxworth, John & Margaret 
 Craig, Charlie 
 Craig, John Sr. 
 Craig, John & Mabel 
 Crookshank, Maynard & Marion 
 Crozier, Rev. 
 Cuffe, H.A. 
 Cumberland, Willian & Ruby 
 Cunnington 
 Curtis, Alex & Rose
Dagg, John & Merle 
 Daly, Thomas> 
 Day, James 
 David, George 
 Dickie, Allan & Margaret 
 Dillon, F.M. 
 Doherty, Mr. 
 Doran, Casper & Viola 
 Doran, Ed & Beverley 
 Doran, Glen 
 Doran, Harold & Melva 
 Doran, Nelson & Sylvia 
 Doran, Russell & Ina 
 Doran, Thomas Edson 
 Dowell, Harry 
 Doyle, W.A. 
 Drummond, Clark & Catherine 
 Drummond, Clifford 
 Drummond, James & Helen 
 Drummond, Milford & Maggie 
 Drummond, Robert Clare & Mary 
 Duffy, John & Hazel 
 Duncan, James 
 Dushnicky, Michael & Rose 
 Dyrkacz, Jack & Margaret
Ellerington, Charles & Florence 
 Ellerington, Christoper & Edna 
 Elliot, Nobel 
 Everett, Raymond & Sylvia 
 Everett, Russel & Donna-Jean 

 Faurschou, Rev. Bruce & Rev. Teresa Moysey 
 Finkbeiner, J. Harry 
 Finkbeiner, John Elmer & Dorothy 
 Finkbeiner, John T. 
 Finkbeiner, Sydney & Genevieve 
 Finkbeiner, Ted & Molly 
 Fisk, Henry 
 Flynn, Arthur & Winnifred 
 Flynn, George & Merle 
 Fraser, Hugh & Margaret 
 Fulton, Winston & Judy 
 Gammack, Scott & Donna 
 Gardham, F. 
 Garnham, John 
 Gilchrist, Larry & Donnaleen 
 Gilchrist, William 
 Gilmour, Bob & Catherine 
 Goff, P. 
 Gompf Larry & Lily 
 Goodeve Family 
 Gordon, Stewart 
 Graham, Clarence & Hazel 
 Gray, Mr. 
 Gregory, Don & Margaret 
 Grey, Thomas 
 Grey, William & Laura 
 Griffin, Wayne 
 Groves, Albert & Phoebe

Hadden, Gordon 
 Hall, Leonard 
 Hannah Alex & Francis 
 Hanlin, Gerry & Debbie 
 Hard, Robert 
 Harris, Chapman 
 Harris, Rev. H. C. 
 Harrison, Charles & Isobel 
 Harrison, Dewart 
 Harrison, Doug & Jeannine 
 Harrison, Frank & Betty 
 Harrison, Harry & Mary 
 Harrison, James 
 Harrison, John 
 Harrison, Josiah D. 
 Harrison, Norman & Anita 
 Harrison, Stella 
 Heise, Allan 
 Heise, Art & Maragret 
 Heise, Arthur & Phoebe 
 Heise, Carolyn 
 Heise, Dave & Marg 
 Heise, James Edwin 
 Heise, John & Merle 
 Heise, Lawrence & Lynn 
 Heise, Mary 
 Heise, Peter 
 Heise, Russel D. F.& Shirley 
 Heise, Russel & Thirza 
 Heise, Simeon P. 
 Hickman, Dick 
 Hickman, Fred 
 Hickman, William 
 Higgins, Edgar & Ann 
 Hill, Charles J. 
 Hill, D.J. 
 Hill, Jim 
 Hill, William J. 
 Hooper, William 
 Huberdeau, Ron & Joanne 
 Hunkin, Larry 
 Hunter, Gordon & Grace 
 Hurlin, Mary & Erik 
 Hurst, Mary
Ingram, William & Minnie 
 Irvine, John 
 Irwin, Eric & Kim Law 
 Irwin, George & Florence 
 Irwin, Lloyd & Margaret 
 Irwin, Thomas 
 Irwin, Wilbert T. 
 Iverach, Bill & Mary 
 Iverach, Donald 
 Iverach, James & Esther 
 Iverach, James Sr. 
 Iverach, William 

 Jackson, Mr. 
 Jardine, Mr. 
 Jefferson, Mr. 
 Jewell, H. 
 Johnson, Morgan S. & Eleanor 
 Johnson, Stuart & Donna 
 Johnson, Mr. & Mrs. 
 Johnston, Burton & Marie 
 Johnston, Claire & Pat 
 Johnston, J.E.M. 
 Johnston, O.D.

Kelly, A.F. 
 Kelly, James & Janet 
 Kennedy, Tom & Eva 
 King, Rev. W.J. 
 Kirk Family 
 Klassen, Terry & Janice 
 Knight, Barrie & JoAnne 
 Knowles, J.J. 
 Knowles, Phillip 
 Kristolaitis, George & Cheryl 
 Kupper, Alex 
 Kupper, Ivor 
 Kupper, Maurice 
 Lambrick, Mr. 
 Lawn, E. George 
 Lawn, Ernest 
 Lawn, Ron & Glenda 
 Lelond, Homer & Florence 
 Levins, Jack & Anna 
 Lewis, T.C. 
 Lints, Crawford & Margretta 
 Littlejohn, Spence & Barbara 
 Lloyd, George 
 Lobban, Sheila & Hunter 
 Locke, William 
 Lothian, Robert 
 Lumsden, J.
MacDonald, John 
 MacDonald, John Angus & Alberta 
 Magwire, John 
 McKee, William 
 MacPherson, John 
 MacPherson, Peter & Louise 
 MacPherson, Michael & Jan 
 Marshall, Mandy 
 Martin, Elsie 
 Martin, Henry 
 McKenzie, Bob & Sharon 
 McKenzie, Tully & Ethel 
 McKibbon, Jack & Mary 
 McMillan, Roy & Jean 
 McMullen, A. G. 
 McPhaden, Ian & Cheryl 
 Middleton, S. 
 Miller, Barry & Linda 
 Miller, Bernard & Betty 
 Miller, Earle 
 Miller, Edna Kelly 
 Miller, Gordon & Diane 
 Miller, Howard 
 Miller, Levi & Yvonne 
 Miller, Lorne & Lorraine 
 Miller, William 
 Miller, W.E. (Ted) 
 Miller, W.H. 
 Mitchell, Charles 
 Moir, Dave 
 Moldowan, Larry & Patricia 
 Morton, Ross & Kathy 
 Morrow, William 
 Moysey, Rev. Teresa 
 Muldoon, William 
 Murray, Arnold & Betty 
 Myles, Jim & Dave
Naylor, George & Jean 
 Nichol, Charles & June 
 Norrie, Archie & Jean 
 Norrie, Cyril & Doreen 
 Norrie, Frank & Ruth 
 Norrie, Gordon & Gloria 
 Norrie, John & Helen 

 O'Callaghan, William & Eleanor 
 Orpin, Albert & Hannah 

 Padfield, George 
 Palmer, Frank 
 Palmer, William 
 Peacock, George 
 Peel, Charles & Frances 
 Phillips, George 
 Phillips, Ralph A. 
 Pittendreigh, William Sr. 
 Pocket, Albert 
 Pocket, Mr. 
 Pollock, John 
 Poppel, Wayne & Susan 
 Pruden, Ken & Audrey 

 Quinton, J.D.

 Reid, Clarence & Lucille 
 Reid, Claude & Georgina 
 Reid, Frank & Hannah 
 Reid, Harold & May 
 Reid, Harry 
 Reid, John & Evelyn 
 Reid, June 
 Reid, Robert 
 Reid, T.F. 
 Renny, James A. 
 Richardson, Billy 
 Riches, Sid 
 Rittaler, Anton & Minnie 
 Robinson, Barnard 
 Robinson, F. 
 Robertson, Garnet & Della 
 Robertson, J.A. 
 Rockley, Ab & Ruth 
 Ross, Jim & Margaret 
 Ross Rev. Walter 
 Rowles, William 

Sawyer, H. 
 Scarth, Robert & Jessie 
 Schapf, Abraham 
 Schweitzer, Alfred & Gladys 
 Scott, Robert 
 Seales, John & Catherine 
 Sisney, Ed 
 Shaw, Edmund & Joan 
 Shelley, Tom & Margaret 
 Sherwin, Don & Louise 
 Shurvell, Art & Dennis 
 Shurvell, Cliff & Mayme 
 Shurvell, Earle & Marcia 
 Shurvell, Fred 
 Shurvell, Herb 
 Shurvell, Lloyd & Alice 
 Shurvell, Murray & Betty 
 Shurvell, Terry & Helen 
 Shurvell, Wes 
 Shurvell, William & Alice


 Simard, Bernard & Denise 
 Simard, Brian & Isobel 
 Simms, John 
 Simpson, William 
 Smith, Murdock & Polly 
 Snowden, George & Eileen 
 Spark, Alec, Bill 
 Sparling, William 
 Squibb, Robert F. 
 Stanley, Robert 
 Stanton, Jack 
 Stevenson, Frank & Jean 
 Stevenson, R.L. 
 Stevenson, Thomas Lawrence Jr. 
 Stevenson, Thomas Sr. 
 Stevenson, Percy & Louise 
 Stewart, Allan & Cynthia 
 Stewart, Archie 
 Stewart, Bob & Hollis 
 Stewart, Clarke & Judy 
 Stewart, Ken & Marjory 
 Stewart, Pete 
 Stewart, T.W. & Margaret 
 Stewart, W.W. 
 Still, Dale & June 
 Still, Don & Marion 
 Still, Glen & Margaret 
 Still, Harvey & Elsie 
 Still, James 
 Still, Peter 
 Still, Ray & Bernice 
 Still, Robert & Brenda 
 Sunley, Ellery & Jessie 
 Sunley, Ernest L. 
 Sunley, Glen & Fay 
 Sunely, John 
 Sunley, Ray 
 Sunley, Vern & Marg 
 Sutherland, Allan & Jeannene 
 Sutherland, Donald & J.G. 
 Sutherland, George & Helen 
 Sutherland, John G. Jr. 
 Sutherland, John G. Sr. 
 Sutherland,L. Murray & Celia
Taylor, William 
 Teasdale, Robert 
 Teasdale, Stan & Ruth 
 Thompson, Arnet & Agnes 
 Thompson, J.L. 
 Tkachuk, Pete & Ann 
 Tocher W. 
 Torrance, Enos 
 Torrance, J. 
 Torrance, James 
 Travetick, I.H.
Vasey, Ross 
 Vining, V.G. 
 Wall, Cecil T. 
 Wall, John & Hazel 
 Wallace, Robert Bruce 
 Wallace, William 
 Walmsley, Rev. S.A. 
 Warren Story,  The 
 Watters, Francis & Mae 
 Webb, Tom & Bertha 
 Webster, George 
 Webster, Harvey 
 White, George & Janet 
 White, Tom
Whyman, William 
 Whyte, Bruce & Doreen 
 Wierer, George & Joyce 
 Wilson, Mr. 
 Wilson and Bayes 
 Wilson, Henry 
 Wolowich, Louis & Charlotte 
 Wood, Mr. 
 Wood, Robert 
 Wright, David 
 Wright, D. Lorne 
 Wyness, Mr. 
 Young, Rev. Keith & Marie 
 Young, Robert 
 Zaccharias, Joe

The Isabella district was first settled in the late 1870's, followed by a substantial increase in the early 1800's.  By 1884, there was a established, English speaking settlement, with  settlers from eastern Canada and the British Isles.   During the mid 1800's, a moment towards depopulation began and continued until there were only two occupied houses in the township.  This continued until 1869 when people slowly began to move into the area and with that another generation was born.

When many of the pioneers came to this part of the country, Brandon was the end of the railway line.  They made the tiresome, hazardous journeys up the Assiniboine River the landings were they would continue by foot, ox-cart or horse and buggy to their new homes.
They blazed trails from one homestead to another, winding around bogs, sloughs and bluffs.

My great grandfather, Francis Augustus Campbell, who was born in 1857 at Campbell's Cross, Ontario,  came west in 1882.  He settled on the east half of section 20, township 14, range 25 in what became known as the R.M. of Miniota.  He received the patent for the south east quarter on January 26, 1898 and later received the patent for the north east quarter on March 13, 1891.  He built his log house with logs that he hauled from the Assiniboine Valley.   The Lucas post office was located in the home of Francis Campbell and he served as postmaster until 1913.  He died on April 13, 1916 and is buried at the Arrow River Cemetery.  The homestead is still in the Campbell family with my father William Francis Campbell being the current owner.

The village of  Isabella was named for a Scotch lady, Isabella  Gould Taylor, who came to this area during the darkest days of the first depression.  When Isabella appeared on the map, Mrs. Taylor happened to be the oldest person in the district at the time.  Up until 1909, there was no road or railway leading to the town of Isabella, just the prairie trails.  There was a one room school where the town now stands.  Horses and buggies in the summer and sleighs in the winter were the only transportation.  The nearest stores and elevators were in towns over ten miles away.  In 1909, the Canadian Northern Railroad was built fro Hallboro to Isabella and the site for the town was just south of the one room school house.  The town grew like a mushroom and for many years was a busy thriving community.

Rural Reflections, the history of the Isabella and Blaris, was published in 1982.  Along with the family histories that are listed, the book contains many articles that fall under the following headings:

Recollections
Churches
Schools
Town Buildings and Businesses
Miscellaneous
Honor Roll
Agriculture, $-H and Extension Courses
Recreation
Community Services
Wedding Anniversaries    * photographs only

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