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Canada / Re: Homestead grants
« on: Saturday 24 May 25 03:04 BST (UK)  »
Four of those five censuses are available on Family Search...
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01tsg/

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Canada / Re: Homestead grants
« on: Friday 23 May 25 20:25 BST (UK)  »
They are busy replacing (ruining) their perfectly good previous databases...(as predicted) Leaving well enough alone/ If it ain't broken, don't fix it / are not their mottos. I asked them back when they threatened the updates that this will render all genealogy site's urls useless.
The site goes down constantly. Should work now, unless you have some odd settings blocking it.
If not, just enter her married name here (no middle name), searching in Manitoba.
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/index

I noticed the property in Kindersley had an alkali Lake, making it impossible to grow/farm. One document says he's of "Aaron, Sask"
perhaps that's why he defaulted & took off (Not that it matters much here, but also noted that the mortgagee JOHN EDWARD STICKNEY was "of Winnipeg in the Province of Manitoba", but 1913/14 on says R.L.Purden of Winnipeg)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9CK-Z2B9
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99XM-KW2Q

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Canada / Re: Homestead grants
« on: Friday 23 May 25 12:59 BST (UK)  »
In case you'd not found her yet. His sister Alice Jane Heathcote, her husband & their three children. Use her name to see the marriage in the BMD URL I gave you (misspells found as Heathcobe & Guert)
re: 1921 Ericksdale...I imagine you've seen this one by now...looking further down the page
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01tsc/
The first 4 entries after their name are section township range meridian
I see that Gertrude Olive remarried? (1905: Ernest Warren Andrews )

I noticed the property in Kindersley had an alkali Lake, making it impossible to grow/farm.
perhaps that's why he defaulted & took off (Not that it matters much here, but also noted that the mortgagee JOHN EDWARD STICKNEY was "of Winnipeg in the Province of Manitoba", but 1913/14 on says R.L.Purden of Winnipeg)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9CK-Z2B9
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99XM-KW2Q

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Canada / Re: Homestead grants
« on: Monday 19 May 25 02:25 BST (UK)  »
Ah, so I was correct in that the gratuity was his re-entry by ship. We're a commonwealth, so must bend the knee. There were enough Guests in Canada to not prompt a search. Didn't he also fudge the last place he was living before leaving? Perhaps he did something out of line again to make him return to England. 
Was thinking that you may want to look into his late medal. His category could have been overlooked after the war...or maybe he just left so quickly that they couldn't find him back in England either. Lots of stones to overturn to find some more truths about your ancestor. I think Rootschatters have found a great amount for you to piece together. Again, Happy Hunting!

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Canada / Re: Homestead grants
« on: Sunday 18 May 25 03:29 BST (UK)  »
 I note that the Manitoba vital stats url I gave you is incorrect.
https://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/  Hit: "Search the Database" on left panel

Best of luck with further searches!

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Canada / Re: Homestead grants
« on: Saturday 17 May 25 14:57 BST (UK)  »
Sorry, no idea...there used to an image of a basic document & sometimes more with those online records many years ago, but none seem to come up anymore. Maybe FamSearch now owns the rights to the digitized records? I have not used that search. Perhaps Jorose can help you with more...

You do realize, though, that Manitoba and Saskatchewan are a good distance apart...? I think I remember telling a cousin in England you can fit a couple of United Kingdoms into just one of those Provinces. Yes, just checked and using total sguare footage each could hold two & a half U.K.s (Or both together could hold five) Yet the U.K. population is enormous in comparison to all of Canada.  (1 and 3/4)  I call it "Trying to put  the envelope onto the postage stamp."

Your ancestor appears to have been a bit of a restless wanderer... not really able to settle down. For instance...did he travel to England on his own accord?  You'd think there would be some residual record of his signup or training here in Canada.  If 1914 is correct, he'd have been with the first contingent. Would they let him change forces that early? Could he have signed up in England with part of his gratuities being the trip back to Canada. Did you check to see if he went back on his own accord prior to 1914? I wonder if you can find out more about his military career from your side of the pond?

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Canada / Re: Homestead grants
« on: Saturday 17 May 25 01:36 BST (UK)  »
Here are the Manitoba land grants.  Hope it works as their new databases suck wind and they have made the older reliable ones unstable. Ezra is easy to find
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/land/land-grants-western-canada-1870-1930/Pages/search.aspx
You can find his father's death -  May 24,1935 West St. Paul - with birth March 11, 1857
https://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/DetailView.php
Sibling's marriages should also be in there...

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Canada / Re: Homestead grants
« on: Friday 16 May 25 23:42 BST (UK)  »
I see you already have a few posts for Matthew. Although a new question, you can always add further queries about the same subject to the same posts without starting a new one. You can use the search above (brown panel below the header/at top of page) Just type your username and the name you're researching to find & add to an established thread.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=873350.0

adding I mistakenly thought his father was at the address on Alexander. (missing a number)
Directory has: Matthew E motor mech h 1519 Alexander
1921 census M.E. Guest - rooming 1519 Alexander (still says married though)
 https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Record?app=census&IdNumber=67376270&ecopy=e002889310

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Canada / Re: Homestead grants
« on: Friday 16 May 25 19:35 BST (UK)  »
The homestead index has changed layout...but you can start your search here then look for images.
https://search.saskarchives.com
 
You may already have this...
He's on the 1911 (June 14/15) census, (imm. 1901 or badly written 1904 - enumerators only had to write.. Don't think they often checked if they wrote WELL?)
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Record?app=census&IdNumber=16004022&ecopy=e002094356

His WW1 CEF files aren't available online for some reason?...
GUEST, Matthew Ernest  #7577-M-7 Imperial Gratuities - No digital files
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=pffww&id=644921&lang=eng

An award 1914 - in the Royal Naval Reserve...Says awarded posthumously?
Matthew Ernest Guest Chief Motor Mechanic
Military Service Branch Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:682N-M9DW

His return in 1921 to Winnipeg to visit his father:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3WB-YFJ
If you need any information from Winnipeg, let me know.

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