Clipping given to writer by Florence (Harper) Spencer(grooms sister) in 1984.
Hand written date on clipping of "1935 Nov 8th" [year incorrect, should be
1934].
4. Gordon James
Harper obituary,The Kinistino Post, Kinistino, Saskatchewan, 25 Apr 1956,
p. 1.
5. ibid.
6. Harper-Gilbertson wedding
clipping.
7. Irene
Gilbertson Obituary,The Kinistino Post, Kinistino, Saskatchewan, 2 Feb
1977, p. 1.
8.
ibid.
9. Card of
rememberance for funeral of Irene Gilbertson, 7 Feb 1977unknown
detail.
10. Jerrold
Armstrong, Kinistino, the story of a parkland community in central
Saskatchewan (Melfort, Saskatchewan: Phillips Publishers Ltd., 1980)p.
135.
11. Frank Harper
obituary, The Kinistino Post, Kinistino, Saskatchewan, 26 Sept 1962, p.
1.
12. 1881 Ontario
census, District No. 31 Muskoka, Twp of Spence, p.11, family #6, microfilm
#_____unknown detail, London Public Library, 305 Queens Ave., London, Ont.
N6B 3P2.
13. 1891
Ontario census, Dist 32 (Manitoulin), Town of Gore Bay, Family # 81,
Microfilm #_____unknown detail, U.W.O. (D.B.Weldon) Library, University of
Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6A 3K7.
14. James Harper, Birth Registration, Reg#
020378/80, p.715, County of Muskoka, Unorganized Townships, 10 March 1880,
Archives of Ontario, Film # MS929, Reel # 44, [ Birth is registered as
"James Harper" however on all later documentation he was refered to as
Francis or Frank James Harper.].
15. Marriage registration # 428, for Frank
Harper and Johanna Wiechmann, filed by the Clerk of the Municipality of
South Norfolk, Manitoba, 2 July 1904, photocopy of original document from
Manitoba Family Services, Vital Statistics, 254 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg,
Man R3C 0B6.
16.
Frank Harper obituary, 26 Sept 1962.
17. ibid.
18. James Harper, Birth Registration,
(1880).
19. Marriage
Registration.
20.
ibid.
21. Johanna
Wiechmann Obituary, The Kinistino Post, Kinistino, Saskatchewan, 2 Jan
1957, p. 1.
22.
ibid.
23. Armstrong,
Kinistino, the story of a parkland community. unknown detail.
24. Carl Gilbertson
obituary, The Salmon Arm Observer, Salmon Arm, British Columbia, 22 Nov
1951unknown detail.
25. Bertha Lovaas obituary, The Salmon Arm
Observer, Salmon Arm, British Columbia, 22 June 1961unknown detail.
26. 1861 Upper Canada
Census, Township of Darlington, Durham Co., Micro film # c-1016Indicates
her first name only and approximate date of birth only., London Public
Library, 305 Queens Ave., London, Ontario N6B 3P2.
27. Marriage record for
James Harper and Elizabeth Thompson, Ontario County Marriage Register,
R.G.8 (1858-1869) , Series 1-6-B (No place: Provincial Archives of Ontario,
28 Jan 1863). Hereinafter cited as Ontario County Marriage Register.
28. James Harper entry,
Dist of Manitoulin, Division of Burpee Deaths, #019893-17, 30 Oct 1917.
[Archives of Ontario, MS 935, Reel 233] unknown detail.
29. James Harper Obituary
The Recorder, Gore Bay, Ont, 1 Nov 1917.
30. District of Manitoulin Deaths.
31. James Harper Obituary,
1 Nov 1917.
32.
unknown author, Ontario County Marriage Register.
33. Gordon Township cemetery records, Gordon
Township Municiplal Office, Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ontario,
[Telephone conversation with County Clerk, Dorothy Fields, Pho 282-2702
and(res) 282-2293 (1983)].
34. Elizabeth Ann Thompson tombstone, Gordon
Township Cemetary, Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ont., Photographed by the
Ken Harper in 1984, unknown detail.
35. Gordon Township cemetery records.
36. Diedrich Wiegmann
(Wiechmann), Baptism Certificate,{Auszug ans dem Geburts und Tanfbundje},
8 Oct 1854, [Photocopy of document given to writer by subjects Grandson,
Diedrich Wiechman, Bremen, Germany, March 1983].
37. Gary Wigdahl, Twixt Hill and Prairie, A
Century of Challenge in the Rothsay, Minnesota, Area (Rothsay, Minnesota:
Holiday Printing, 1982), p.3.
38. 1871 Ontario Census, Sub District A,
Township of Darlington, Durham County, Micro film # c-636unknown detail,
London Public Library, 305 Queens Ave., London, Ont. N6B 3P2.
39. unknown household, 1851
Upper Canada Census, 305 Queens Ave., London, Ontario N6B 3P2, London
Public Library 953.
40. Raastad farm, 1801 Norway Census,
Christians amt., Gran Parish; The University of Bergen database
http://www.hist.uib.no/cgi-win/websys.exe?e&04&0413&4&177&127, printout
dated 2 Feb 1997unknown detail.
41. ibid.
42. Winorum farm, 1801 Norway Census,
Christians amt., Gran Parish; The University of Bergen database
http://www.hist.uib.no/cgi-win/websys.exe?e&04&0413&4&245&137; printout
dated 1 Feb 1997.
43.
Raastad farm, 1801 Norway Census.
44. ibid.
45. ibid.
46. ibid.
47. ibid.
48. ibid.
49. ibid.
50. Winorum farm, 1801 Norway Census.
51. Raastad farm, 1801
Norway Census.
52.
ibid.