Flu Quarantine 1918 Moose Jaw

[RedMystic]

Good afternoon all.

I have a family story I'd like to verify but have been unable to do so in Google news archives (though admittedly I'm not very good at those searches).

I've been told that I have 2 great uncles that died in flu quarantine in Moose Jaw in Nov. 1918. The quarantine station was apparently in a school, and one of the young men apparently tried to "escape", dying as he crossed the school yard.

I do know that both men died within 2 weeks of one another, the first Nov 7 and the second Nov 19.

I have contacted the Moose Jaw library to see if they can provide any info on the quarantine of 1918, but have had no response. Does anyone know how I might search this further?

[Jacquie in Canada]

Here's a link to RedMystic's thread about this family:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,524972.0.html

Your other thread is from last week. It will take longer than a few days before the Moose Jaw Library will have a chance to respond.

Jacquie

[vbain]

http://www.ourroots.ca/e/search.aspx?field=Subject&key=Moose+Jaw+(Sask.)--History.
return to search

All the moose-- all the jaw
Heritage headlines

Heritage headlines
the leaves of history ... a news history of Moose Jaw and the prairies from the pages of the Moose Jaw Times-Herald


These are book titles so I don't think they would break copyright.

[S1233]

I live in Moose Jaw. I believe the school may have been Ross School, which is now closed. If you're still looking for information about the flu, I could take a look at some of the local books here if you like.

[RedMystic]

TX scaryoldbycicle,

As you can see, vbain and Jacquie have sent me some links and I have since heard from the Moose Jaw Library re obits - just that they have them for King * Joseph, that they contain very little info, and that they will mail them.

Anything you can provide in addition would be very generous on your part and gratefully accepted on mine.

Happy Easter.

[avidgenie]

Here is one newspaper report from Google News:
How Moose Jaw is Grappling with Epidemic from the Morning Leader on October 28, 1918, page 2.

This public health booklet from the Saskatchewan Settlement Experience shows that 179 died in Moose Jaw from 1918-1920.

[avidgenie]

Here is another article from the Morning Leader, October 21, 1918, page 2:
Moose Jaw Shuts Off Street Cars For Disinfection

[RedMystic]

Thank you very much Avidgenie. It sounds as if it was a terrible time.

[avidgenie]

Yes, it was. It killed more people worldwide that the First World War did. Most of the people who died would be considered normally young and healthy.

Here is another article about its effect in Saskatchewan The Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic on Saskatchewan Farm Families, 1918-1919 by Joan Champ.