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Home Town or Home Community:
Beverly, Webb, Swift Current
Our Story:
Robert Owen Ross and his wife Bertha Almira Lloyd came to the Beverly-Webb-Swift Current area of southern Saskatchewan from South Dakota in the spring of 1906 with his big "Case" tractor, plough and other farm machinery.
It may be of interest that Bertha Lloyd was an aunt of the former Saskatchewan Minister of Health and later Premier Woodrow Lloyd. Both, Bertha's father William and his son, Albert, (Woodrow's father) moved from South Dakota to the Antelope Lake area about 1910 to homestead. Albert's family consisted of nine boys and they did in fact have their own ball team. ...more Story
Related Links:
Western Development Museum
Contact:
Robert Reid
4330 Greta Street
Burnaby BC V5J 1N8
Canada
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