This is not my line though I do have a John and Emma Bettey in L361 - I thought perhaps someone might find it interesting it is from the Makaroff Pioneers website at http://drftr.users2.50megs.com/makaroffpioneers1.htm JOHN BEATTIE, with his wife Emma Fox and their six children George, Wilfred, John, Maude, Edna and Evea, moved from Udney, Ontario to Douglas, Manitoba in the spring of 1905. During the two years of their stay there, Mr. Beattie was engaged in cattle shipping and also in a carpentry business. In 1908 he moved his family to Roblin where he operated a livery business, but a year later traded the business for the Bert McGillivry homestead and moved to NW 12-27-29. This land was actually situated in the Deepdale school district, but to enable the Makaroff district to qualify for school grants, the Beattie children were invited to attend the Makaroff School. Another son, Isaac, was born on this farm and two years later, in 1914 John Beattie purchased Sec.15-27-29 just southwest of the village of Makaroff. This became their permanent home and while working with his oats one day, which contained a considerable amount of wild oats, Mr. Beattie noticed that the wild oats stuck to his work socks. After a time of considerable deep thinking he held up a flannelette blanket, threw some oats up against it and behold, the wild oats stuck to the blanket - separating the wild oats from the tame. Thus was the beginning of what would later develop into the Beattie Blanket Mill. At this point it may be noted that John Beattie's son Wilfred, in 1943 constructed and patented the Beattie Wild Oat Grain Cleaner and later, the Beattie Wind Cleaner. John Beattie continued with his mixed farming until the time of his death in 1940 at the age of 78. His wife Emma predeceased him by just 53 days, at the age of 69; they are both resting in the Makaroff Cemetery. The Beattie family did their share in developing the community and is one of the few who have descendants still living in the district. Maude (see T.W. Pound above). Edna (see Walter "Tom" Boyce). Evea (see Harvey Boyce). George married Leola Westfall of Esterville, Iowa. They lived in various places in the west and in the U.S.A. but returned to the Makaroff district to farm NW 10-27-29 for several years before retiring to Oak Point, Manitoba. WILFRED BEATTIE married Helen Low of Togo; her father Alexander Low, a blacksmith by trade, had come from Scotland in 1899 and her mother Helen Lindsay had arrived from Scotland in 1904. The Lows had married at Rossburn in 1905 and by way of Grandview and then Roblin, settled at Togo. Wilfred and Helen Beattie farmed SW 15-27-29 and the west half of 17-27-29. Wilfred served as school trustee, member of the Pool Elevator and Church boards and the rink committee. Helen, a member of the U.C.W, held office as president on occasion. Wilfred died in 1985 and Helen in 1995, both are resting in the Makaroff Cemetery. They had four daughters and one son: Wilma, a teacher, married William Cowling and made their home at Crandall, Manitoba (Wilma died in 1970); Jean, an x-ray technician, married George Robertson, lived in Dauphin, went into social work and retired in Brandon; Evelyn, a teacher, married C. E. Rheaume and made their home in Portage la Prairie; Roberta, a nurse, married R. Kaspruk and lived at Eden, Manitoba. Wilfred and Helen's son Douglas and his wife Geraldine remained on his parent's family farm. JOHN BEATTIE, born 1905 at Udley, Ontario was only one year old when his parents moved west to Douglas, and shortly after to Roblin where they ran a livery stable. "Johnnie" was four when they traded the business for the Bert McGillivry homestead at Deepdale and nine years of age when they moved to Makaroff. He attended the Makaroff Consolidated School and as a young man went to work in B.C. In 1929 he returned to Makaroff and purchased the Richard Craven farm SE 30-27-29. In the meanwhile, Kathleen Levins of Crandall, Manitoba had come to teach at Makaroff. Two years after Johnnie's return from B.C. he and Kay were married in Brandon. Little firewood was available in the area by this time; it had to be hauled from north of Togo. This was in the days before municipal graders. Farmers using V-plows and blowers on their tractors kept the roads open. The group in their area included farmers: Johnnie Beattie, Sam Relky, Adolph Hischabett, Pete Nabe, Frank Grundy, and Evert Boyce. In 1940 Kay returned to teaching and in 1963 transferred to the Roblin Collegiate from which she retired in 1970. She had taught school for a total of 36 years and was presented an Honorary Life Membership of Manitoba Teachers' Society in 'appreciation of many services to the community of education'. Johnnie and Kay raised three daughters and one son and retired to Togo in 1974. Their daughter Donna, a teacher, married Harold Nabe (see Peter Nabe) and made their home in Togo; Ilene married Peter Penniston of Togo, both became teachers at Stony Mountain and raised two sons, Don and Jack; Beryl, who had been with the Royal Bank since 1957, married Ross Poulsen, an accountant with Inco at Thompson, Manitoba. Clifford worked for a year on a ranch in Alberta and a year in construction in Calgary before returning to work as a P. F. R. A. rider at the community pasture. He later worked at Bell Brothers Garage in Togo. In 1963 he purchased the McKnight farm at Grand Narrows but didn't take up full time farming until 1968 when he purchased the farm of Pete Nabe at Makaroff. In 1981 he married Marg Delaney of Maple, Ontario. ISAAC BEATTIE, the youngest child of John and Emma Beattie, was the only one of their children born at Makaroff. Known as "Ike", he attended the Makaroff Consolidated School and remained on his parent's farm NW 15-27-29. He married Muriel Boyce, the daughter of Russell and Catherine Boyce of Deepdale. Russell Boyce born 1884 in Ontario had moved with his family to the Neepawa district and later, in 1906 to the Silverwood district. Catherine Davies, born 1892 in Wales where she trained as a teacher, came to Canada in 1912 to join her parents J. D. and Margaret Davies who had emigrated earlier. Catherine taught school at Silverwood for two years before marrying Russell Boyce. Their daughter, Muriel, married Ike Beattie at Roblin in 1935 and moved into his parent's farm home at Makaroff, where they remained until their retirement. They had two sons and one daughter: Earl, Yvonne and Lyle. Both Ike and Muriel were very involved in the Makaroff community and enjoyed curling. Ike, on occasion, also traveled to Clear Lake to golf with friends. On retirement from the farm, they moved into the new home they had built in Roblin - where they celebrated their 65th Anniversary in the year 2000. Muriel died on Christmas day, 2001and is resting in the Makaroff Cemetery. Their son Earl married Marlene Dobson in 1958, made their home in Flin Flon and had three children: Lori Ann, Clark and Diane. Marlene, daughter of R&M Dobson of Killarney, had come to Makaroff with Elsie and Dave Clark, agent for Manitoba Pool Elevators, when her mother was ill with tuberculosis. She attended Makaroff Consolidated School and later, Normal School in Winnipeg, teaching for a time at Grandview. Earl and Marlene returned from Flin Flon in 1973 to a farm at Roblin where they raised Herefords and Marlene resumed teaching. Yvonne married Thomas MacQuarrie of Winnipeg in 1970, resided in Regina and Winnipeg and had one daughter, Sabrina. Lyle, a graduate of University of Manitoba, married Marion Hamblin of Morris, MB in 1971. They had two daughters, Heather and Colleen, and made their home at Souris, MB where Lyle taught for many years at the Souris High School. Later, they moved into Brandon. 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