ARTHUR BRYANT by Ernest Bryant (1967)

    Arthur Bryant was born in Canterbury, England in 1851. His father was in the dry-goods business and he was apprenticed to this trade, coming to Toronto, Canada in 1878 and working in a dry goods store for three years.

    He then decided to try farming and worked on a farm near Toronto for six months. He then came west to Winnipeg with two of his brothers Frank and Alfred. They bought a yoke of oxen and a wagon each and made the Winnipeg to Russell trip in six weeks.

    Arthur Bryant homesteaded the west half of 10-22-28 (that is homestead and preemption) and Frank Bryant the N.E. of 10-22-28. Frank Bryant lived there for nine years, then he moved to Shellmouth in 1889 where he and his wife, the former Jessie Lawther, ran a boarding house. Alfred Bryant homesteaded the S.E. of 4-22-28 with N.E. of 4 obtained as a preemption - this is on the west side of the highway opposite the Attwood farm. A few years before he moved to Toronto he built the large house that still stands there.

    In 1883 Arthur Bryant married Mary Rea. They had four of a family: Nellie; Edith, Mrs. William Dutton; Ernest and Allan. Nellie, unmarried, lived with her parents on the farm, until she moved to Russell in 1942. Mr. and Mrs. Dutton farmed at Birtle. They had two daughters: Mary, Mrs. Cosgrove of B.C., and Daisy, Mrs. Thos. Roger of Winnipeg. Mr. Dutton was killed by lightning in 1932. Mrs. Dutton died a few years later.

    Ernest married Barbara McLennan daughter of Thos. McLennan, of Asessippi. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bryant have retired to Russell having sold their farm to Clayton Thompson in 1964. They have three daughters and a son: Doris, Mrs. Jas. Town of Prince Albert, Sask.; Gwen, Mrs. Baldur Oliver of Morden, Man.; and Margaret, Mrs. Wyatt Lyon of Fort Nelson, B.C. Arthur is teaching Science and Chemistry in Churchill High School, Winnipeg, Man.

    Allan Bryant married Barbara Fisher. They live on the father's original homestead. Their family consists of Maxwell and Sylvia, Mrs. David Coulter of Silverton

    Mr. and Mrs. Bryant were great supporters of the Community and Church especially the Sunday School of which he was superintendent for years.  Although a Baptist, Mr. Bryant was an elder in the Minniska Church from 1900 until his death in December, 1932.  Mrs. Bryant predeceased him in April of the same year.

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