LEST WE FORGET 275 McDOUGALD, John Andrew “Jack” WWII Jack was born on August 27, 1925 and grew up in the Maple Creek area. Jack signed up in Regina on July 1, 1943 at seventeen years of age as a Young Soldier. He attended several camps for training. Time was spent in Saskatoon where they slept at the fair grounds under the grandstand, Hamilton, and ended up in Kingston, Ontario. His company were trained in various occupations including motor mechanics. His rank in the Army was Craftsman/Private. Jack made good friends with a fellow by the name of Bob Bartlett from the Calgary area and Victor Bradle (an Icelandic lad) from Saskatchewan. These fellows had lots of fun pulling pranks on each other. Jack volunteered to go to the Pacific but was disappointed when the troops from Europe were given higher priority, so Jack did not get to go. The Army planned to discharge those who had been overseas for four or five years first, so Jack took a leave in the fall of 1945 and was discharged from the Army in June 1946. Jack passed away on May 31, 2020. McKELLAR, Clarence Leroy “Rusty” WWII Clarence Leroy, better known as “Rusty” was born in Pilot Mound, Manitoba on December 1, 1908, moving to Saskatchewan with his father and sisters in 1910. He attended school and spent the early years of his life in Elrose. He clerked in his father’s store and later clerked in Irwin’s store in Eston. He played the violin in many orchestras in the area, and in later years it was not uncommon for a stranger to walk up to him and say: “Are you Rust McKellar? I used to dance at Clearwater Lake when you played there.” From Eston, he moved to Waskada, Manitoba again working in a store. He joined the Army in 1939, went overseas in 1940, and was discharged in 1945. In Edinburgh, he met and married Johann (Joan) Stomberg, who had a son, Nicholas, from a previous marriage. Her husband had lost his life in the war. They returned to Canada in 1945. He again got in the store business and for many years managed stores in British Columbia with the Overwaitea chain. Clarence and Joan loved the BC landscape and were residing in Castlegar when Joan passed away in 2000. McINTOSH, William FENIAN RAIDS William was born in 1842 in Lamlash, Island of Arran, Scotland. He served with the Canadian Militia at the Fenian Raids in 1866. He was granted a medal and one hundred dollars. The medal is displayed in a museum in Ottawa. His wife, Annie Jane, worked on R.N.W.M.P. Barracks. In 1902, they homesteaded on land where Rowan’s Ravine Provincial Park is currently. William passed away in 1914.
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