My grandfather, Robert Wilkinson McClelland, married Sara Jane Falconer. They left Ontario and settled in Red Deer.
On April 30, 1885, The Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories appointed my grandfather as a Justice of the Peace.
In the early 1900's the McClellands moved to the Rexboro District and settled on the NW20-53-4-W5 with their family of four boys and two girls: Westley, Art, Will, David, Grace and Ethyl.
After his marriage Westley McClelland moved to the SW18-53-4-W5 and was the postmaster for Rexboro. He assisted in the building of the Rexboro Church. They had one daughter, Nellie. Later Westley and his family moved to Parksville, Vancouver Island, where they are now buried. Nellie married Mac Petrie and they have three daughters who are presently living in Vancouver. Grace and Ethyl married the Hopkins brothers, Art and Ern. Art and Grace lived at Smithfield and Ern and Ethyl moved to Grande Prairie. Uncle Art and Uncle Will both moved to Saskatchewan where they joined the police force. Both are buried in Saskatoon.
David McClelland, my father, married Mona Dadswell in 1913 and we moved to Evansburg where my father was killed in a mine accident in 1925. We then moved to Smithfield where we lived with Uncle Art and Aunt Grace till we moved to Saskatoon. My mother passed away March, 1975.
I have two sons, David in Saskatoon, and Jack in Calgary. At the present time my wife Hilda and I live at Marshall, Saskatchewan.
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