My Family Memories
George LeBar & Fanny Fogal
Their Family
In the Beginning: George & Fanny were farmers.
HUSBAND NOTES: George Adolphus LEBAR*
Census3: 1891 Barrie Island, near Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ontario
The spelling on this Census was Lebar. the children are Christina 4, Frank 2, & Norman 7. George was recorded as 30 & Fanny 29.
Census4: 1901 - Allan Township, Algoma District
The spelling was LABARRE. The children names are Annie May 6, Christena 14, Frank 11, James 0, Minerva 10, Norman 17 & Oliver 3. Frank was age 40 & Francis (Fanny) Fogal 39.
General:
Notes from Elinore Copeland
George and Fanny (Fogal) Lebar lived for a period of time on Thorah Island, Near Beaverton. Some of their childrens births were recorded in the registers at Beaverton, Town Hall, County of Ontario, Ontario. This family moved on the Manitoulin Island, and farmed near Kagawong, Ontario. The farm area is known locally as LeBar's Hill. The house burned. After the death of George, Fanny married Jacob McPherson, a widower with children
WIFE NOTES: Francis (Fanny) FOGAL*
General: After George died, Fanny married Jake McPherson, a widower with children. His daughter Alpina McPherson, in turn married my grandfathers (Levi Van Horn) brother Luke Van Horn. Fannys daughter Christina LeBar married Levi.
CHILD NOTES: Francis LEBAR
Birth: LDS shows May 23, 1889, Kagawong, Ontario. Father George Lebar, Mother Fanny Fogal, Film Number 471907 Reference Number 59222
Death: Frank & Lida did not have any children.
General5: Frank Lebar came from Manitoulin Island in 1905. During the trip he looked after the horses and cattle in the stock cars of the other settlers coming at the same time. He homesteaded the S.E. 19-11-20-4. At this time the prairie landscape was unobstructed by trees or fences. He later worked at Pincher Creek where he met Lida Pierson, a native of Magrath. She was the second baby born in Magrath. Frank Lebar and Lida Pierson were married in the Iron Springs parsonage by Rev. C. R. Corcoran and they took up residence on the farm, the N.E. 8-11-20-4. The Lebar home became the half-way house for C.S. Noble's hired men when they were travelling between Nobleford and the Cameron Ranch which was the site of the Noble Foundation. The men often stayed overnight. They would have from six to ten horse teams with wagons, machinery, cook cars, supplies, and seed grain. There would be anywhere from two to six teams in the string.
Mr. Lebar, along with other farmers, hauled grain to Coaldale, Nobleford, or Diamond City for a number of years, using four or six horse teams for the job. In 1929 he got first prize for his sugar beets, a sum of one hundred dollars. He had sixty acres of land seeded to beets that year. Later the Lebars lived on the S.W. 17-11-20-4 which was where they lived before retiring to Lethbridge.
Among the recollections of Mrs. Lebar are the changes in farming techniques, along with the landscape changes brought about by irrigation. Also vivid in her mind is the arrival of the first train. She remembers, too, the terrible dust storms and black clouds that would roll across the sky when these storms occurred.
CHILD NOTES: Christina (Teeny) LEBAR*
General6: Levi and Teeny left the Manitoulin Island in 1922 and they homesteaded 30 miles north of Moosejaw. Times on the praries were very tough. Mae was married and had moved to the United States with Milton. After Levi died Teeny went to Toronto with Jean, Laura, Ardeth and Gordon. She sewed articles for the Eaton Company and had a boarding house. Jonas stayed in Sackatawan and married there.
CHILD NOTES: Norman LEBAR
CHILD NOTES: Annie May LEBAR
General: Frank Lebar went to eastern Canada to visit his relatives in 1917 and when he returned his sister Annie came with him. She cooked for him on his farm until he married Lida Pierson in 1922.
Annie Lebar married Richard Sonnenberg in Lethbridge in 1923. They worked on Tom Wright's threshing outfit that fall. She cooked for the sixteen-man crew and he drove one of the bundle teams. They also worked for Tom Wright in 1924 and their daughter Mary was born. They moved to the New Dayton area that fall and started farming. Mrs. Sonneberg and an infant died on March 1, 1928, and are buried in the Huntsville cemetery. The daughter Mary (Mrs. Victor Robinson) now lives in the Grande Prairie area.
CHILD NOTES: Minerva (Minnie) LEBAR
General: After Minnie & George married they moved to Alberta.
CHILD NOTES: Oliver LEBAR
Birth7: General: Moved West and then moved back to Marathon, Ontario
CHILD NOTES: James LEBAR
General: Moved West.
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The following information is compiled by Lorraine LeBar that has done extensive research on the LeBar's in Canada.
1. LaBarre. This is the only way to spell the Quebec French name. It is a 'dit' name. This is a term peculiar to Quebec. For geneological purposes the family name is different e.g. Genest. These families are usually Roman Catholic and their first language is French. Some of these LaBarres can be found in Eastern Ontario where there are large communities of French Ontarians. If this fits your circumstances, the Societe Franco Ontarienne can be most helpful. They have a large resource center in Cornwall, where the Quebec dictionaries are held. These volumes are based on the records of the Catholic church and are usually very complete.
2. LaBarre +++ Families with this name came to the Eastern Townships of Quebec as a result of the American Revolution. Since they were refugees, it is much harder to find the facts. They were Huguenot descendants, English speaking and mostly still retain their Protestant thinking. Probably, in an attempt to Anglicise LaBarre, the Quebec spelling is Labare. As they moved to other parts of Canada and back to the U.S. reversion to some form of the original name took place.
I have collected quite a lot of data on the second group. If you think you might belong here, I will try to help.
Lorraine LeBar.
SOURCES
1. Rick Fogal from the Manitoulin Island. Rick's Grandfather, John Fogal and Linda (Huntington) Taylor's Great Grandmother, Francis Fogal were brother and sister.
2. Cleve Lebar.
3. Census for Ontario. 1891 Barrie Island, near Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island.
4. Ibid. 1901.
5. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Sorgard. Coyote Flats Historical Review 1905 - 1965
Volume 1. Southern Printing Co. Ltd.
1233 - 2nd Ave. South - Lethbridge, Alberta.
6. Linda Taylor (Huntington). as told to her by her mother, Mae.
7. Manitoulin Genealogy Site.
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