Minnie Veeneta Budd Genealogy and Family History Notes

I to date have been unable to find a birth record for Minnie Budd, nor a baptism.
I have not found Minnie on the 1881 Canadian Census.
According to the 1900 USA census she states she was born July 1873.
According to the 1906 Canadian census she states she is 33 on July 2nd which would make her born 1872.
According to the Lampman history book she was born July 18, 1871.
According to her obit born July 18, 1871 at Lindsay, Ontario. According to her obit she was 92 years old when she passed away March 1965, which would make her born 1873.
Her headstone states 1871.
1871 has to be wrong as her brother Eli Budd was born 27 May 1871

1900 United States Federal Census - View Census
State: North Dakota
County: Pembina
Locale: Midland Township
ED# 116
Series: T623
Roll: 1230
Page: 147
Enumerated Fourth June 1900
1.
2.
3. Name: Sinclair, Minnie
4. Relationship to head: Wife
5. Color or race: W
6. Sex: F
7. Month and Year of Birth: July 1873
8. Age at last birthday: 26
9. Single or Married: M
10. Number of years married: 3
11. Mother of how many children: 3
12. Number of living children: 3
13. Place of birth: Canada Eng
14: Fathers place of birth: England
15: Mothers place of birth: Ireland
16. Year of immigration: 1889
17. Number of years in the United States: 11
18. Naturalization:
19: Occupation:
20: Months not employed:
21: Attended school:
22. Can read: Yes
23: Can write: Yes
24. Can speak English: Yes
25: Owned or rented:
26. Owned free or mortgaged:
27: Farm or home:
28: Number of farm schedule:

1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces of Canada - View Census
Name: Minnie Sinclar
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Age: 33
Birth Place: Ontario
Family Number: 118
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouses's Name: William
Immigration Year: 1904
Province: Saskatchewan
Sub-District Description: Townships 4, 5, 6 In Ranges 4, 5, 6 West of The 2nd M
Sub-District: 9 Page: 13

1911 Census of Canada View Census
Name: Minnie Sinclair
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Age: 37
Birth Date: July 1884
Birth Place: Ontario
Family Number: 66
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouses's Name: William
Tribal: Irish
Province: Saskatchewan
District: Assiniboia
District Number: 207
Sub-District Number: 13
Census Year: 1911
Page: 6

1916 Prairie Provinces of Canada Census View Census
Name: Minnie Sinclair
Gender: Female
Age: 43y
Estimated birth year: 1873
Birth place: Canada O
Marital status: Married
Racial or tribal origin: Irish
Relationship to head-of-household: Wife
Immigration year:
Military service location:
Residence: Saskatchewan
Province: Saskatchewan
District number and name: 16 Assiniboia
Sub district number: 15
Page: 22
Household id: 239
Line number: 21
Digital GS number: 4363964
Image number: 00441
LAC film number: T-21935
Collection: Canada Census 1916

Sinclair: Will & Minnie

William John Sinclair was born to Archie and Maryanne Sinclair July 28, 1874 at Lindsay, Ontario. Minnie Venita (Budd) Littlejohn, widow of Thomas Littlejohn was born July 18, 1871 at Lindsay, Ontario. They were married November 24, 1895 at Cavalier, North Dakota. Minnie's son, Wilfred Littlejohn, was born April 21, 1892. He married Minnie Peters. They had seven children.

William and Minnie had eight children:

Archie Jr., born October 12, 1897, married Florence Mason of Arcola. Archie died January 1, 1962, Florence died in 1958 and Earl in 1980.

Alma, born December 14, 1899, married Robert Mitchell. They had six children.

Joseph, born September 9, 1902, married Naomi Drader. They were divorced and Joseph married Violet North from Manitoba. They had two children.

William Jr., born September 4, 1904, married Emma Christofferson. They had five children.

Thelma, born January 6, 1907 married Joe Wark. They had four children.

Fred, born December 12, 1909, married Hazel Smith. They had four children.

Vera, born November 10, 1911 married Dan McCurdy. They had three children. They were divorced and Vera married Jack Hanley. Jean died of cancer.

Dan, born February 18, 1913 married Christine Leptich. They had seven children.

In 1903 William took up a homestead on the NE 1/4 16-5-5 and in 1904 the family moved to this area. They lived on the homestead for a while, then moved to Bienfait where William ran the Massey Harris Agency for a few years. They moved back and settled on the Albert Littlejohn farm. A fire destroyed the home in 1910 or 1911. The family had to live in a grainery until a house was moved from the Thomas Stull homestead on 18-5-5.

In 1918, William bought the Fred Fornwald farm, the Se 1/4 20-5-5. There was a shack on the farm so William bought a warehouse in Lampman to join to the front part of the house, which had been bought from Herb Breeze. They house stood until the four years ago, when Mark Walter bought the land and burned the old house and barn.

A few recollections of their life on the farm follow. Coal was hauled from Bienfait by wagon at the price of three dollars for a boxful. Cattle and pigs sold for almost nothing. One farmer got thirteen cents for a steer. Some didn't get enought to pay the freight.

They butchered pigs and smoked or cured the meat, then stored it in grain for the summer. Milk and butter were kept cool in an icehouse. Big chunks of ice were packed in a hole with straw to keep it from melting.

During the First World War meat was rationed. People hid meat in a granary. There was a song at the time called "The Meatless Day".

On August 26, 1931 a cyclone destroyed all the buildings except the house. All the windows were broken by hail wich lay a foot deep. The wind was so strong it sucked the clothes right out of the bedroom frm behind the door and out the window. Dan sat with his feet against the stove and his back against the door to keep it from blowing in. The threshing machine was upset and the chickens were hanging from the barbed wire fence. Haystacks were flattened. They had to go out and rake up what they could. The barn had collapsed. In it were three horses, still alive, huddling in a corner. When they went to rebuilt they asked for aid and were given two dollars to buy nails.

The same storm destroyed the Wes Littlejohn house. Wes and Neil McLeod were making supper. Wes was frying eggs and when the storm struck he went out the window with the frying pan in his hand. He also lost a pair of pants with fifty cents in the pocket - the only money he had.

In 1933 there was a grasshopper plague. When flying in they looked like a cloud over the sun. They ate up everything: they even chewed holes in the clothes on the line. When men were stooking and left their forks in the field while having lunch they even chewed them and made them almost too rough to handle.

In October, 1943 William bought the Jack Ibbetson house just north of Lampman and he and Minnie retired. William passed away June 2, 1957 at the age of eighty-two. Minnie went to live with her daughter Alma Mitchell at Carberry, Manitoba. She passed away February 20, 1965 at the age of ninety-three. William and Minnie are buried at Arcola.

Excerpts from
"Poet's Corner"
Pages 901 & 902

Minnie

Minnie 1956

Fledda Minnie Alma
Oct 9 1956

Minnie 1961

Thanks to Marie for the above photos.

Obituary

Mrs. Minnie Sinclair

Funeral services were held in the United Church, Lampman, Saskatchewan at 2:00 P.M., February 27, for Mrs. Minnie Sinclair, age 92 years, widow of William J. Sinclair, who died at Fox Memorial Hospital, February 25, after a lengthy period of ill health. Rev. McLachlin, of Macoun, Sask., conducted the service.

Mrs. Sinclair was born Minnie Budd, at Lindsay, Ontario, and following her marriage to Mr. Thomas Littlejohn, lived at Glasston, North Dakota, where Mr. Littlejohn predeceased her. She later married William Sinclair and returned to Canada in 1904 with her family to homestead on the prairies where the towns of Lampman and Browning are now situated.

Following the death of her husband in 1956, Mrs. Sinclair made her home with her daughter, Mrs. R. J. Mitchell, at Carberry and Douglas, but retained her membership in the Lampman United Church.

Surviving her are four sons: Joseph, of Brandon, William, Fred and Daniel all of Browning, Saskatchewan; three daughters: Mrs. R.J. Mitchell (Alma) of Carberry, Mrs. Joe Wark (Thelma) of Nipawin, Sask., and Mrs. Jack Hanley (Vera) of Regina, Sask. A sister, Mrs. Lottie Finley, lives in Chicago. Two sons: Wilfred Littlejohn and Archie Sinclair predeceased her. Mrs. Sinclair was the head of a five-generation family of which there are 249 living grandchildren, great- grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were grandsons: Robert Mitchell of Carberry, Clarence Sinclair of Amulet, Saskatchewan, Jack McCurdy of Panoka, Alberta, Elmer Littlejohn of Browning, Sask, Russel Sinclair of Brandon and Wesley Sinclair of Browning.

Flower bearers were William Sinclair, Chaplin, Sask. and James Sinclair, Browning, Sask.

The Carberry News- Express
Wednesday, March 3, 1965
Nc 12
Legislative Library
Winnipeg, Manitoba



More About Minnie Veeneta Budd:
Burial: 27 February 1965, Arcola Cemetery, Arcola, Saskatchewan, Canada
Immigration: 1904, From North Dakota to Saskatchewan

Census images and headstone photo sent by Myrna.

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