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Robert Louttit Reid and Mary Sarah Masonchuk

Robert Louttit Reid (b. 5th February 1858) was a son of Robert Reid and Charlotte Stevenson.

He was with his widowed mother and brothers when they emigrated to York Colony, NWT in 1883, taking up a homestead on 14th June 1883 on paying $10. He took possession the following day.

With help of the Fergus brothers who had travelled with them and his brothers James and William Reid, he cut logs and was under a roof within a fortnight.

The land was rough and the crop that year wasn’t the best. However the garden was good and he took four first prizes at the fall fair.

Robert sought employment away from the homestead from the Fall of 1887 to Spring of 1889. He used his earning to buy horses and other livestock when he returned in 1889. He continued to increase his holdings and by 1894, there were forty six head of cattle, eleven sheep, six pigs, sixty chicken and six hundred and forty acres of land.

Robert subsequently left the Orkney district and moved to Fishing Lake where he went into ranching and mixed farming.

He married Mary Sarah Masonchuk on 23rd December 1903 and they had five children:

• Caroline Fredrica Reid, born 1904

• Rubina Ann Reid, born 1907 who married Walter Peterson and lived in Saskatoon.

• George Stevenson Reid, born 1908

• Ivan John Reid (twin), born 1913 who married Ruth Brown and lived in Saskatoon.

• Ivy Mary Reid (twin), born 1913

Sarah died on 1st June 1927 and Robert on 24th August 1939.