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Located on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, CPR, in 1927
Red line in map below is part of what is now Highway 13

Arcola

Federal Electoral District: Assiniboia (SK)

Office Opened - Feb 1, 1889
Section 14, Township 8, Range 4, W2

Postmaster Information:

Name of Postmaster	Date of Appointment	Date of Vacancy	Cause of Vacancy
Peter McLellan (see below)	1889-02-01	1893-09-30	Resignation
William Alexander Hislop (see below)	1894-06-01	1901-04-01	Closed

Existing post offices of Arcola and Clare were closed.

Clare was located 2 miles NE of Arcola today
Moved when the CPR came thru

Arcola

Federal Electoral District: Moose Mountain (SK)

New Office reopened- Apr 1, 1901
Section 9, Township 8, Range 4, W2
in the Railroad Station.

Postmaster Information:

Name of Postmaster	Military Status	Date of Birth	Date of Appointment	Date of Vacancy	Cause of Vacancy
Dougald Strachan (see below)			1901-04-01	1903-01-19	Resignation
Thomas Carlyle Yeoward (see below)			1903-04-16	1913-03-19	Dismissal, Political Partisanship
Ernest Thompson		Oct 27, 1888	1913-07-18	1930-01-23	Suspended
Ernest Thompson (Re-instated)		"	1930-02-28	1943-12-25	Death
Mrs. Helen Lois Thompson			1943-12-28	Acting	-
Victor Clifford Mahan	OAS		1947-06-01	1976-06-25	Retirement
Conrad P. Kuntz			1976-03-04	1982-09-07	Promotion
Marion Jesse			1982-09-04	Acting	-
Mrs. Winona Fuchs			1983-01-11	1983-06-30	Promotion
Mrs. Marion Jesse			1983-06-28	Temporary	-
Mrs. E. M. Jesse			1983-11-23	-	-

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Peter McLellan (First Postmaster)
b- Mar 18, 1858 in ON
d-
wife- Margaret "Maggie" McLellan, nee Hislop (see below)
b- Dec 29, 1864 in ON
d-

son, Peter McLellan
b- Dec 8, 1887 on Sec 14, Twp 8, Rge 4, W2, Assa, NWT (SK)
d- Mar 9, 1968 at Castlegar, BC, age 80
He married Carol Wales

1871 Peter McLellan living at North Easthope, North Perth, ON, age 13
1891 in Broadview, Assa East.

William Alexander Hislop (2nd postmaster)
b- Feb 23, 1873 in Grey Township, Huron, ON
d-
father- Thomas Hislop
mother- Jennett "Janet" Sillers

siblings of William:
Annie Hislop, age 19, 1881 census
Margaret "Maggie" Hislop, age 17, (see above)
John Hislop, age 14
Archibald Hislop, age 12
William Alexander Hislop, age 8 in 1881

William and Janet's children:
son- Frank Hislop
b- May 7, 1904, in Areda SK
son- James H. Hislop
b- Oct 1, 1887, in SK
daughter- Margaret Lambie Hislop
b- July 17, 1886 in SK
son- Thomas William Hislop
b- July 18, 1891, in SK

Dougald Strachan
b- Feb 29, 1858 in ON
d- Apr 9, 1933 in Vancouver, BC, age 75
father- Thomas Strachan, mother- Flora Cameron
3 daughters:
Jennie Strachan
b- June 7, 1886 in ON
Flora Strachan
b- Apr 20, 1887 in Brussels, Huron, ON
Margaret Strachan
b- Apr 20, 1890 in ON
1901 in Clare NWT, no wife shown
he had married Annie Hislop, summer 1884 in Arcola, NWT

Thomas Carlyle Yeoward
b- Aug 1871 in Shakespeare, ON
d- July 17, 1946 in Kamloops BC, age 75
wife- Isabel Yeoward, nee ?
b- Nov 1875 in ON
d- bef 1927
living on Carlyle St. in 1911

when he died, his wife was Mary Mildred Kelly, nee Carse
b- 1877 in Detroit Michigan
d- July 13, 1942 in Kamloops, BC, age 65
married Nov 5, 1927 in Armstrong BC
both were widowed at the time.
father- James Carse, mother- Annie Longhurst.

Saskatchewan Provincial Police
Arcola Detachment
A. McCutcheon, Constable
Alex E. McCutcheon was Chief of Police in Estevan
during the Miner's strike, same guy?

Has SK Govt telephones, CP Telegraph,
and Dominion Express
4 churches, Public and High Schools
and 2 Banks

Councillors-
Thomas Predemore
Lowery Hanna,
John R. Gillstrap
Frank Leible
Ross H. Trout (see below)
Ernest Thompson (Postmaster)

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