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Pioneer C M Hargrave Profile by Jim Nichols
Maurice Hargrave born February 22 1898 in La Junta Colorado and later homesteaded near Saskatoon. He worked in motors in Indianapolis and served in the Student Army Training Corps before returning to farming in Saskatchewan. The Hargrave brothers moved to Dawson Creek in 1947, building a cow and Belgin horse ranch in Big Lake Valley. harsh winters tested them, with Beavers and wolves posing threats. Maurice taught at mill camp, cared for family, and aged into a long life ending in 1986 on Vancouver Island.
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C. Maurice Hargrave
la Junta
Colorado
Matthew Hargrave
Mary Elizabeth Milroy
Maurice
Canada
Saskatoon
Indianapolis
Indiana
Student Army Training Corps
Army
Butler College
US Army
Nordyke and Norman
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon Normal School
Kerson School
Tramping Lake
LouVine
Quebec
Mary Elizabeth Hargrave
Dawson Creek
Napoleon
Moberly Lake
Bond
Jackfish Lake
Jim Bond
Big Lake
Bigger
Dawson
Ernie Nichols
Ernie
Bond’s
East Pine
Nichols
Isobel
Little Prairie
Theodore
Port Alberni