EIDE

Born 5 May 1893, Vega, Norway
Died 18 November 1967, Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Buried 21 November 1967, Hillcrest Cemetery, Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada¹
From 'They Blazed We Followed Volume II'1993
SIGURD EIDE
by wife, Nora
from 'The Frontiersmen'
Sig was born in Norway and came to Kasson, Minnesota, U.S.A. in the fall of 1911. He worked for his brother-in-law. He came to Canada in the spring of the following year and worked for a railroad grading outfit at Cabri, Saskatchewan, until freeze-up. He then went to Pincher Creek, Alberta, where he and three other men trapped muskrats until January. He went to Spokane, Washington, Vancouver and out to Victoria, where he worked in the woods until spring. He worked on a farm at Strathmore, Alberta, that summer, then went to Avonlea, Saskatchewan, for threshing.
In the late fall of 1913, he came with his brother, Gus, to homestead. He filed on his land the next spring and broke twenty acres. He then went to Alberta and worked until late fall. He stayed with Gus that winter. In the spring of 1915, he built a shack, broke some more land and picked rocks. in June, Clarence Hanson and Sig walked to Gull Lake and took the train to Pincher Creek, Alberta, working there until after harvest, then returned to the homestead.
Before the town of Frontier began, Mrs. Shirley and later, Mrs. Skogstad baked bread for him.

Alias NORA EVELYN EIDE (28 August 1927)
Born 11 April 1909, Neepawa, Manitoba,Canada²
Died 9 July 1986, Shaunavon, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada³
Buried 12 July 1986, Hillcrest Cemetery, Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada⁴
From 'They Blazed We Followed Volume II'1993
I was born at Neepawa, Manitoba, in April, 1909. 1 came with my Mother to the homestead in July, 1910. Father had come out in April. 1 went to Pearshell and Plateau School. I rode horse back and when my brothers started school, we drove by horse and buggy.
In early March, 1923, we saw the laying of the railway steel and we were fascinated.
Sig and I were married in August, 1927. We had two children Robert and June.
Robert; was born in 1928. He started school at Plateau, then went to Frontier most of his school years, except for two years at Pearshell. He worked for Sig Berg in Cypress Hills logging camp one winter and then at Tisdale on a farm. he married Thelma Jabusch in October, 1952.
June, was born in June, 1937. She went to school in Frontier, worked in the Co-op store and went to train as a nurse's assistant. She worked there for two years. She married Dave Ormiston in April 1959.