Third in the Belle and George Jasper family, Margaret completed her high school at Hartney Col- legiate and got her teacher training at Winnipeg Nor- mal School while she boarded with her Uncle Dave and Aunt Margaret Rutherford in the Adanac Apart- ments on Sargent Avenue. For about a decade, she taught in various rural schools at Hazelridge, at Sin- clair and Miniota before going to Douglas for three years where she met Murray Sinclair.

During World War II Murray served in the Cana- dian Army at Brandon and Camp Shilo. Margaret and Murray were married in Brandon during Christ- mas week of 1943 and for several years lived almost directly across Second Street from Uncle Bob and Aunt Florence Rutherford. Both danghters Myrna and Linda were born in Brandon where, foilowing his return to civilian life, Murray began work with the Manitoba Highways Branch. When in 1958 Mur- ray started to work with the federal Department of Public Works as assistant engineer on the Trans— Canada Highway, the family was transferred to Banff, Alberta. Margaret and Murray have made the Banff area their home ever since, even following retirement.

Daughter Myrna, who is a Home Economics graduate from the University of Calgary, is married to Jim Chrisp, a sales representative for a Canadian chemical company which in the mid-seventies trans— ferred him from Calgary to Sarnia, Ontario. Daugh- ter Linda, a Fine Arts graduate from the University of Calgary, married Gordon Wiebe, a cabinet maker and designer of fine furniture in Victoria, B.C., where in 1980 he finally lost his long battle with cancer. Linda, who does administration and public relations at Comosun Community College, has con- tinued to live in Victoria.

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Kenneth Jasper/Marion Green Kenneth Rutherford Jasper — 1914 - Marion Edith Green ~— 1911 -

Married 10 July 1940 0.2.3.4.1 Linda Gail— 1941 — 0-2—3~4-2 Sharon Gwendolyn —— 1943 — 0.2.3.4.3 Brian George — 1945 — 0.2.3.4.4 Dianne Marilyn — 1947 -

Kenneth, the youngest of Belle and George’s family, completed high school at Hartney and at- tended the old Winnipeg Normal School in 1935/36. His first school was Hartney for three years; his first principalship was at Fairfax, followed by Arrow River, Pipestone for five years, and Sheridan where between 1950 and 1953, he had the unique experi- ence of being commuting principal of a school on the move between two mining communities, Sheridan

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0.2.3.1. Dorothy Jasper Gibson with 0.2.3.4. Kenn Jasper and wife Marion Green, 1979. -

and Lynn Lake. By 1959 when his family was ready for higher education Ken “came out” of northern Manitoba to become inspector at Steinbach, Man- itoba, of one of the new rural school divisions, but in 1965 he was recruited for the mammoth task of organizing Frontier School Division.

Frontier covered all the “unorganized” north of Manitoba from Bissett across the top of the lakes and north of the Saskatchewan with a mix of provincial and federal schools at various reserves and settle- ments. Native Indians were becoming increasingly active in both political and educational affairs. Federal and provincial authorities were negotiating changes in jurisdiction. First from Dauphin, later from a Winnipeg office, Ken flew to exotic places like Jack River, Rossville, Norway House, Berens River and Manigatogan. It was exciting and at the same time a political football. Would he take it on again? Ken says, “Yes, I think I would. It was worth the effort and I love the North”.

Ken met fellow-teacher Marion Green at Univer— sity of Manitoba summer school when he was leaving Hartney for Fairfax and she was replacing him. They married the following summer, and raised a family of four, born in the south but growing up in the north where they experienced that famous northern social life and much music. Ken still does carpentry, paints in oils and plays violin, too busy in retirement to be contacted except by appointment.

Gail and accountant husband Ernie Kurbis com—