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In 1898 when Holylea school was opened Wm. Harris was living
on N.W. 20 and was the first teacher at a salary of $30 per month
paid quarterly. The cost of the school was not to exceed $700 but
it is not known now if it was kept down to this level or not. The
students attending school in 1898 included Bert, Reg. Britannia, and
Isabel Moffat, Gertrude, Helen, Chas. E. and Emily Winstone, David
McMurachy, Frank Robertson and Tom Richardson.

In 1901 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parker came to live on Sec. 20 on
the land they purchased from Wm. Harris and I. D. McGregor.

One of the first members of the Holylea school board was I. M.
Michael who homesteaded the N.W. of Sec. 18. The southeast of
Sec. 18 was owned by Seneca Palmer and two of his children,
Jim and Vera attended Holylea school.

Mr. Geo. Hogarth, a brother of the second Mr. T. C. Moffat,
homesteaded the N.W. of Sec. 22. He left this area and later sold
life insurance in Regina. A Mr. 0. Marshall, a brother of Ias. Mar-
shall, had the S.W. of Sec. 22. He moved to the Green Bluff area
where his cousin Alan was already established.

Mr. E. Blackburn homesteaded N.E. 22. He married Lena Sin-
clair. Their family were Eva, Lucy, William, Sam, Frank, Harry,
Jennie, and Edith. At one time the Blackbums, Moffats and Win-
stones made up most of Holylea school.

Mr. M. Ferguson came here from the U.S.A. and homesteaded
S.W. of Sec. 36. His family were Arthur, Ruby, and Roy.

Sec. 24 was homesteaded by A. 1. Church, T. C. Wilson, C. S.
Fortune, and J. Fortune. The legend is that Chas. and Jim Fortune
built their first house right on the line between the two quarters so
that they might live together and still be fulfilling their homestead
requirements.

Mr. D. S. McMurachy homesteaded the N.W. of 30, and pur-
chased the NE. from R. Shepherd. In 1901 he married Mary Mc-
Pherson and they had a family of four sons and four daughters.
A son Stephen still lives on the home farm.

Section 31 was wild land, part of a much larger area. Cattle and
horses ran at large, mostly unattended, as at this time Strathclair
Municipality had a fence law but Blanshard had a herd law so
herds were not supposed to be allowed to roam.

LLOYD GREENAWAY

Lloyd Greenaway was born in 1892 in Holland Centre, Ontario.
He came with his parents when he was five years old to Newdale,
Man. They lived there a few years then moved to Blanshard Mu-
nicipality, and lived in the Oak River District.

When Lloyd was about 15 years old they moved to Section 4-
14-21. In 1916 he married Cordelia Gill, who was born and lived
in Blanshard Municipality where Douglas Gill now lives. After get-

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