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To supplement their cash flow, Frank and the boys ran two threshing teams along with whoever wanted work.
The Vanscoy area has been home to the Ward family for over 100 years. In 1906, a year after Saskatchewan entered Confederation, Frank O. Ward, his wife Carolina and sons Carl, Algot, Elof, Edward and Adolph migrated north to Vanscoy, Saskatchewan, a village incorporated in 1918, located twenty-nine kilometers southwest of Saskatoon. Frank purchased a tract of land from the Valley Land Company and built a house and sod barn. His three eldest sons, Carl, Algot and Elof, also took out homesteads in the surrounding area. They broke the land, cropped the soil and ran cattle, hogs, chickens and everything they could to survive and raise a group of growing boys.
With World War I over, times were tough for a large, fully grown family; so in 1919, Frank and Carolina purchased a tract of land near Durban, Manitoba, a hamlet southwest of Swan River. Adolph moved to Manitoba with his parents while Edward stayed back and farmed the home place. On Frank’s passing in 1928, the land in Manitoba was sold and Carolina and
rank O. Ward along with his wife, Carolina and three-year-old son, Carl, immigrated from Sweden to America in 1885. They settled in Amor Township, Minnesota which was established on April 5, 1879. For the next twenty-one years they farmed near Amor and had four more sons‌ Algot, Elof, Edward and Adolph.
The Original Homestead In Vanscoy