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"Thomas John Bolt" Tom Bolt came to Copeland from England in 1911 and worked a short time for Stanley Smith on SW.6.31.18 before applying for his own homestead on NW.14.31.19 beside the Hardies. This quarter section was located four miles west of the original number 6 road between Dafoe and Raymore. Tom later met Margaret Fennell and they wed at Yorktown in 1913. Their first son Fred was born at Copeland in 1915 the same year I was born. Their second son Jack was born later in the Saskatoon hospital.
In 1920 Tom and his family moved off the homestead
into Dafoe, where he became a livestock shipper and opened a butcher shop.
Margaret became very active with the Church of England. In 1928 Tom
partnered with Bernard Smith in Dafoe to run the Smith & Bolt Garage. They
sold Buicks and Pontiacs in a newly built brick building. At that time
Robert (Bob) Wallace (no relation to my Uncle Harry Neil Wallace) was the Massey Harris
dealer in Dafoe, but by the time I was seventeen in 1933, Tom had taken over
that agency too. When Fred turned twenty years old in 1935, he married Jonina Gudnason and joined his father as partner in the business which was
renamed to Bolt & Son. Tom's son Jack was the farmer, so took over the family farm
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