Thomas & Jean Shipman

Thomas Shipman was born in England in 1881.  His wife Jean (nee Milne) was from Scotland and four years younger having being born in 1884.  Like many immigrants who came to Canada, they ended up in Manitoba where their son George was born.  In 1908 they moved to Copeland and applied for patent on NW.30.30.18 a mile south of the correction line.  They were on the west side of the north-south trail that later became the number 6 highway between Dafoe and Raymore.  At that time my Father David was already one year into "Proving Up" his homestead on NW.16, which was 4 miles directly to the north of Shipmans. 

I mention the Shipman family fourteen times in my diaries.  By 1933 George was 25 years old, and by then my family lived on NW.10.  After selling NW.16 to O. J. Brooks, my father David bought out my Uncle William's homestead in 1911 before he left for Peterborough to married my mother and return to Copeland.  George was well know as a excellent farm hand, so when things were slow on his dad's farm he contracted himself out for extra money.  In September 1933, dad hired him for most of the month to help around the farm.  George also helped us cut wood in the wintertime at Blakely's Bush Camp.

Earlier in the Spring on April 13th., my brother Clarence picked up George's younger sister Mary to take her to a dance at Foote School.  We all had a good time and returned home very late.

On April 17th., Derward Fish and Tom Shipman came over to look at our bull for breeding purposes.

Mr. & Mrs. T. Shipman & family gave a gift and card to Lila and I at our wedding shower in 1940 at the Copeland hall.  Two years later when George was 34, he married Flora May and after having two boys, moved to McKague Saskatchewan.  Much earlier in 1929, George's older sister Gertrude married Albert Wheatley and farmed NW.17.31.18

Thomas (Tom) Shipman 1881-1940  Jean Shipman (nee Milne) 1884-1952
George Shipman 1908-1978  Flora Shipman (nee May) ?-1959 (Interned at McKague)
I. Shipman was Postmaster at Copeland from June 1st., 1911 to September 25th., 1916.