Fred and Annie Stalia Fisher
February 1st 2021
From “Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Fisher”
Pioneers and Progress, Alix Clive Historical Club, 1974
Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Fisher came from Kearney, Nebraska to Lacombe, Alberta and on March 1st, 1900, [they] and five daughters moved out 7 ½ miles south-east of Lacombe to the Lakeside district. The family lived on a quarter section of land owned at that time by Mr. Darling.
Mr. Fisher purchased a team of horses, a walking plough and two sections of harrows. No one in this area owned a seed drill. Mr. Fisher sowed his feed by broadcasting. In his spare time Dad walked to his homestead in the Clive area and built a log house and barn on NW-20-40-24-4.
In 1903 we moved to the homestead 1 mile south-east of Clive. The land was cleared by cutting huge trees and roots with an axe.
Directly across the trail was… the land [where] the first school was erected by Dad and some of the neighbors. All of the labor was volunteered with no wages for anyone.
The name of this first school in the area was “Enterprise” No.701….
During this time several of the men, Dad included, prepared the site for the village of “Valley City” which was later named Clive – with a team of horses and a bob-sleigh.
Dad hauled lumber, groceries, etc. from Lacombe to Lamerton, Erskine and Alix as there were no railroads yet….
Dad, Mother and we children lived in the log house until 1918, when we moved to the Lakeside district. Dad bought a half-section of land from Mr. Mole, who had built a lovely brick house here, in 1915.
There were quantities of delicious wild fruits, including saskatoons, chokecherries, raspberries, strawberries….
My mother’s name was Annie Stalia Fisher and our family consisted of 11 girls and I boy. They were Daisy, Myrtle, Ida (myself), Mildred, Lorena, Minnie, Rosie, Fred Jr., Josephine, Violet, Annie and Ruby….
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Johnson and their daughter Sarah, later she married Jim Grose; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fisher and five daughters; Mrs. Ernie Short, Clem, Bill, Jennie and Grace, a baby in her mother’s arms; Mrs. Aden Joslin and her daughter rode on the same train coach from the States until we all landed in Lacombe. Gussie, their daughter, teaching school in Minnesota, followed them here when summer holidays took place, later marrying Jim Tees.
Pioneers and Progress, Alix Clive Historical Club, 1974
Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Fisher came from Kearney, Nebraska to Lacombe, Alberta and on March 1st, 1900, [they] and five daughters moved out 7 ½ miles south-east of Lacombe to the Lakeside district. The family lived on a quarter section of land owned at that time by Mr. Darling.
Mr. Fisher purchased a team of horses, a walking plough and two sections of harrows. No one in this area owned a seed drill. Mr. Fisher sowed his feed by broadcasting. In his spare time Dad walked to his homestead in the Clive area and built a log house and barn on NW-20-40-24-4.
In 1903 we moved to the homestead 1 mile south-east of Clive. The land was cleared by cutting huge trees and roots with an axe.
Directly across the trail was… the land [where] the first school was erected by Dad and some of the neighbors. All of the labor was volunteered with no wages for anyone.
The name of this first school in the area was “Enterprise” No.701….
During this time several of the men, Dad included, prepared the site for the village of “Valley City” which was later named Clive – with a team of horses and a bob-sleigh.
Dad hauled lumber, groceries, etc. from Lacombe to Lamerton, Erskine and Alix as there were no railroads yet….
Dad, Mother and we children lived in the log house until 1918, when we moved to the Lakeside district. Dad bought a half-section of land from Mr. Mole, who had built a lovely brick house here, in 1915.
There were quantities of delicious wild fruits, including saskatoons, chokecherries, raspberries, strawberries….
My mother’s name was Annie Stalia Fisher and our family consisted of 11 girls and I boy. They were Daisy, Myrtle, Ida (myself), Mildred, Lorena, Minnie, Rosie, Fred Jr., Josephine, Violet, Annie and Ruby….
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Johnson and their daughter Sarah, later she married Jim Grose; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fisher and five daughters; Mrs. Ernie Short, Clem, Bill, Jennie and Grace, a baby in her mother’s arms; Mrs. Aden Joslin and her daughter rode on the same train coach from the States until we all landed in Lacombe. Gussie, their daughter, teaching school in Minnesota, followed them here when summer holidays took place, later marrying Jim Tees.