Descendants of John Laughlan McQuarrie and Marian Dand

Descendants of
John Lachlan McQuarrie Oct 28, 1855 - Jan. 4, 1934	and	Marian Dand Oct 6, 1857 - April 5, 1891

John Lachlan McQuarrie was born in Brock Ont.
His parents were:
Charles Harvey McQuarrie b.1826 - d.1898
Elizabeth Robins b.1826 - d.1898.

Marian Dand was born in Feversham Ont.
She was the 7th child of
William Robertson Dand b.Dec 19, 1819 0 d. ?
Marion (Wright) Dand b.Aug. 30, 1822 - d.Apr. 2, 1915

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Introduction
In April of 1891 the Ontario census was being taken, just days after the loss of their mother Marian (Dand) McQuarrie.
John Lachlan McQuarrie is listed as age 35, widower, father and mother born in the U.S., with his children listed with their ages as follows: Margaret 12, William 10, Estella 8, James 5, Arthur 2 and Thomas 1 month of age. Thomas died later in the same year.

By the time the 1901 census had been taken, Margaret (22) had married a widower, David Tait (43), with children in Orillia and Estella "Stella" (18) also had married, Richard Redpath (29), and had begun a family in Singhampton.
Stella and Richards descendants would become many as this page would attest to.

The 1901 census also reveals James (15) had been adopted by the Ferguson family of Duntroon. Although contact among the siblings was maintained, William (age 20) and Arthur (age 12) have not been found in the census.

In 1904 when Margaret (McQuarrie) Tait and her newly expanded family and other members of the Tait family relocated in British Columbia, William and Arthur were among them there in Vancouver and working for them and/or living on their properties which were quite immense. Arthur was living in the Manhattan Apartments, which was owned by William Lamont Tait, David's half-brother, at the time he enlisted during World War I. David and Margaret managed these properties for William Lamont Tait. Margaret brother, William McQuarrie, was a automobile chauffeur for Wm. Tait.

Sometime before 1901, John Lachlan McQuarrie remarried to likely a widow, Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie" Sheares.
In 1901 they were residing in Glen Huron, Nottawasaga Twp. which is very close to the McQuarrie birthplace of Feversham and Duntroon where Jim was at with the Ferguson's and Singhampton where Stella was located with her new family.
In 1912 John's second wife, "Maggie", dies. In around the same time his son-in-law, Richard Redpath dies and an obituary for him mentions John coming to the funeral from Craigleith, a village just west of Collingwood. In about 1924 he moves to Collingwood and passes away there ten years later in 1934. His funeral director left an account of his burial in Collingwood but his grave has not been located.

After the death of Marian (Dand) McQuarrie in 1891, it is clear where some of the McQuarrie children ended up by 1901.
In the decade leading up to 1901, it should mentioned that some or all of the children, for periods of time maybe, would of been in the care of Marian's eldest sister Margaret (Dand) (Thompson) Bowes, as her obituary would indicate. The McQuarrie children were't alone in the experience of losing one or more of their parents. Their first cousins in the Edwards family and the Mungo Dand family shared their plight. It has been an oral tradition in the Edwards family that Margaret Dand Thomson Bowes played a large part at different times helping out with the orphaned families in the Osprey area.
A tribute wrote by Gary Edwards to Margaret Thomson, on the Rootsweb.com directory "Notable Women Ancestors".

1.	Margaret Elizabeth “Maggie” McQuarrie b.Oct 3, 1878 in Feversham - d.Mar 30, 1956 in Vancouver Margaret E. M. McQuarrie on her birth registration. married David Lamont Tait b.1854 Pennsylvania - d.March 3, 1935 Nanaimo B.C.

Alma Mae Tait b.April 18, 1898, Orillia - d.July 18, 1960 Vancouver B.C.
married in Vancouver, March 24, 1920 Mark James Spurr

Mark Edward Spurr b.1921 - d.Nov. 30, 1921

Alma (Tait)and Mark James Spurr's infant son is buried in the same cemetery plot with
Alma's brother, Edward Orland Tait and also beside Alma's uncle, William Harvey McQuarrie
in the Jones Border section of Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver. See below.

remarried Reginald Finch Govey b.abt.1887 - d.Oct. 23, 1968 West Vancouver
Reg Finch Govey worked for Canfisco's Home Plant office in Vancouver, BC.

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Edward Orland Tait b.Jan 22, 1899 Orillia - d.June 24,1921 Vancouver ?

Edward Orland Tait served in the army during WWI. He served with the 18th Field Ambulance Unit from April 26, 1917 to March 15, 1918, was discharged and then re-enlisted Feb. 20, 1919. His attestation paper listed his occupation as a clerk.
He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery Vancouver in a section that was a recent addition, generally reserved
for those that died from wounds shortly after returning home from WWI.

Basil Hilyard b.April 25, 1900 Orillia - d.Aug. 30, 1900 Orillia

	death date	section	block	plot	lot
MCQUARRIE, William Harvey	01/19/1919	Jones Border	*	083B	0007
TAIT, Edward O.	06/24/1921	Jones Border	*	083B	0008
SPURR, Mark E.	11/30/1921	Jones Border	*	083B	0007
George Brown Wallace	01/23/1950	Abray	15	006	0001
Margaret (McQuarrie) (Tait) Wallace	11/30/1921	Abray	15	006	0002

Margaret (McQuarrie) Tait remarried to George Brown Wallace b.abt. 1886 - d.Jan. 23, 1950, Vancouver
Both are buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver.

William Harvey McQuarrie b. June 18, 1880 Feversham, Ont. - d.Jan. 19, 1919 Vancouver
Will went to Vancouver with his sister Margaret and her husband David Tait in 1904. He became a automobile chauffeur for
David’s half-brother, William Lamont Tait. He was a fatality of the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918-19 in Vancouver at the age of 37.
He had never married nor had children. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver.

Sarah Estella “Stella” McQuarrie b. Aug 28, 1882 Feversham - d. Mar. 8, 1928 Singhampton Ont.
married June 22, 1898, Orillia, Richard Redpath
b. April 7, 1871, Melanchton Twp. Ont. - d.Jan. 22, 1914, Duntroon Ont.
Richards parents were Thomas and Anne (Norris) Redpath.
Their marriage registration states: Richard Redpath age 27 of Duntroon farmer m Sarah E McQuarrie age 16 of Orillia.
Stella died after injuring the cervical vertabra after falling down the stairs.
Stella lived on the 10th line in Nottawasaga for many years. She had an amiable disposition and quiet ways.
Stella is on the 1891 and 1901 census in Singhampton.

Myrtle Irene Marion Redpath b.Jan. 16, 1901 Nottawasaga - d.April 17, 1935
married Eby Coheen

Myrtle and Eby had no children.
Myrtle (Redpath) is buried in Singhampton, Ont. She died from tuberculosis.

Thomas Edmund "Ed" Redpath b.Sept. 30, 1903 Singhampton - d.June 10, 1975
married Sept. 10, 1925 Singhampton Mary Elizabeth Hallam
b.March 5, 1904 Duncan, Ont. - d. Nov. 3, 1991 Collingwood, Ont.

Mary's parents were Richard and Martha (Pellow) Hallam

Lillian Redpath b.Oct 12, 1905 Singhampton - d.Feb. 3, 1948
married William Collins d.March 6, 1955

Lillian died in the same matter as her mother Stella (McQuarrie) Redpath,
she fell down a set of stairs and died of head injuries.

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Sarah Estella “Stella” (McQuarrie) Redpath See above
remarried March 9, 1919 Stella was widowed from her first husband in 1914, Richard Redpath
Alfred "Alf" "Thomkins b.July 15, 1877 - d.1955

Alf's parents were William and Margaret Thomkins.

4.	John James "Jim" McQuarrie b.May 3, 1885 Feversham, Ont. - d.Sept. 10, 1931, Saskatoon Sask. married Hilda Cecil Smiles b.May 22, 1893 Copper Cliff, McKim Twp. - d.Feb.7, 1990 White Rock, B.C.

John James McQuarrie

History
John James McQuarrie had a homestead filed near Kelvington, Saskatchewan, NE¼ of section 34 township 37 range 11 W2nd.
The founder of Kelvington was also a homesteader/postmaster,
John Alexander McQuarrie, although the genealogical link to this
branch of the McQuarrie family has not been established.

Jim also had filed another homestead south of Smilesville school,
which is west of Kenaston Saskatchewan at SE¼ 16 29 3 W3.

He married Hilda Smiles and was an grain elevator manager in Kenaston. He had originally moved to the area to work for the Hamiliton's who were horse traders. Hilda's mother was a member of the Roe family. The Roe's, Hamilton's, Smiles and subsquently Jim McQuarrie all had staked out homesteads in the area around Kenaston and Hanley, Saskatchewan. The Smilesville school was named after the Smiles families that had attended school there.

The McQuarrie family later moved to Saskatoon abt. 1911,
after a brief period in Elrose, Saskatchewan.
Jim McQuarrie sold farm equipment for the JI Case Co.
John James McQuarrie is buried in Saskatoon, Sk.

Russel James McQuarrie
b. July 1, 1910 Kenaston Sk. - d.Feb. 15, 1983 Saskatoon, Sk.
married Golda May Harper b.abt. 1913 - d.abt. 1998

Russ was a hockey coach/manager for the Saskatoon Quakers and was a founding member of the Saskatoon Riding Club. He also was a sponser for the Olympic Equestrian Team and had the training center at his farm at Beaver Creek.
Russ owned horses that were used internationally. He is buried on the farm at Beaver Creek just south of Saskatoon.
Russ and Golda had no children.

Roy Harold McQuarrie
b.March 16, 1913 Saskatoon - d.March 13, 1978 Sacramento, California
married July 1, 1935 Saskatoon Lillian Josephine Tackaberry
b.July 14, 1913 Semans, Sk. - d.May 31, 1974 Sacramento, Ca

Lillian's parents were James and Josephine (Kronebusch) Tackaberry b.1891
Roy was a salesman for Hudson's Bay and Bowman Bros. (Saskatoon), Moffat (Toronto), General Trading (St. Paul Mn.) and several other firms in Sacramento California.

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5.	Charles Arthur "Art" McQuarrie b.May 23, 1888 Feversham - d. ?

Art lived in Valora Ont. in 1943 and served in World War I. His was a house painter and never had children.

6.	Thomas McQuarrie b.March 26, 1881 Feversham - d. Nov. 9, 1891 Feversham

Thomas died as an infant 7 months after his mother's death, Marian (Dand) McQuarrie.
He is buried in Burn's Presbyterian Cemetery in Feversham, Ontario.

Descendants of
William Robertson Dand and Marion (Wright) Dand