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Cupar, Saskatchewan
« on: Tuesday 23 March 21 16:50 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

I'm researching someone who emigrated to Canada from Perthshire, Scotland in 1912 and lived in Cupar, Saskatchewan. He was a ploughman/farmer. I just wonder if anyone with more Canadian knowledge could tell me anything about the history of this town? Any ideas why he might have ended up there?

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Re: Cupar, Saskatchewan
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 23 March 21 16:59 GMT (UK) »

Have you used Mr Google ?  If you can give us a name we can have a look for you, if that helps.

Wikipedia - Cupar, Saskatchewan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupar,_Saskatchewan

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Re: Cupar, Saskatchewan
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 23 March 21 17:17 GMT (UK) »
His name is Duncan McCallum Taylor. He arrived in 1912 I believe. He enlisted in the army in March 1916 and then left for Liverpool/France in November. He was killed in 1917.
So he would only have been there for a few years. I'm more just interested in the context of the place and why he might have specifically ended up there? Just wondered if there was some kind of company/project that advertised for Scottish workers or something like that.
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Re: Cupar, Saskatchewan
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 23 March 21 17:25 GMT (UK) »


Have you looked through his military digital file -

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=272491

digital file can be slow to load - 38 pages can be interesting read

https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B9520-S057

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Re: Cupar, Saskatchewan
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 23 March 21 17:28 GMT (UK) »
Yes.
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Re: Cupar, Saskatchewan
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 23 March 21 17:32 GMT (UK) »

1916 census was 1 June 1916 - if he hadn't sailed back to UK - have you searched that census ?
Just a chance he could have been on it.

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1916/Pages/1916.aspx

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Re: Cupar, Saskatchewan
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 23 March 21 17:37 GMT (UK) »
Thanks, I had just found that myself, but I don't think he's on it. I imagine he might have been somewhere else at an army training camp at that time.
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Re: Cupar, Saskatchewan
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 23 March 21 17:55 GMT (UK) »

Sadly there wouldn't be any other documentation -

He is on the Canada, Virtual War Memorial Index, 1900-2014 and Braco Churchyard (whoich you will be aware of)

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2753520?Duncan%20Mccallum%20Taylor

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Re: Cupar, Saskatchewan
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 23 March 21 17:58 GMT (UK) »
Yes, I did think I'd reached the end of the sources for him personally. That's why I'm asking for more contextual stuff about Cupar.
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