Francis William Bull is sitting in the car beside the steam engine. F.W. Bull set out from Toronto in the spring of 1883. He detrained at Whitewood where there was only a C.P.R. station and a tent store. There he teamed up with Ephraim Boake and Wes Jackson who were also headed for York Colony. They loaded up 6 wagons, set out over the rough virgin terrain, before arriving at an area of the Qu’Appelle River where a ferryboat was built for them. The trip to York Colony took 2 weeks. They stayed for three months at the house of William and Edward Hopkins, which was obviously a “stopping” place. Two months later, Mrs. Josephine Bull arrived. And in the spring of 1884, they constructed a shanty on their homestead NW Section 6 Township 26, Range 3 West of the 2nd Meridian. Francis’ brothers, Edward W. Bull, and Robert James Bull soon joined him at York Colony. They also filed for free homesteads and made entry for a $10.00 fee on adjacent land known as Pre-emption quarter sections.
Contact Terri Lefebvre Prince,
Heritage Researcher,
City of Yorkton Archives,
Box 400, 37 Third Avenue North
Yorkton, Sask. S3N 2W3
306-786-1722
[email protected]
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