Coming Home to Kelliher

Dugald Gallacher Lyon Wedding Photo 1917




Isa White Cunningham Wedding Photo 1917




My grandfather Dugald Gallacher Lyon was born in Scotland and had been in Canada prior to the First World War. He joined the Canadian Expiditionary Force in 1916 in Edmonton Alberta and served with an Engineering Regiment Overseas. He Married Isa White Cunningham in Greenock Scotland in 1917 and after the war they returned together and settled in Kelliher Saskatchewan.




Here they are in the backyard in Kelliher. Dugald and his dad built the house which was located on the south side of first street just east of the United Church.




Dad often talked of the house and the picket fence in front. Here is a photo taken years later. eventually it was sold in modern times and moved tobecome a convenience store on the corner of highway 15 near Laross. Last time I was there it was gone.




It was not long and the first and only child Dugald Archibald Lyon was born. Here is young Dugald, my father, with his parents in Kelliher. Probably summer of 1922. This picture with the uncut hair for boys must be a family tradition as I have a picture of me about the same age and we look identical.




Here Dugald is a little older in the mid 1920s behind the house. A trend in pictures, he always seem to be with the pretty girls. Maybe someone could help identify the others in the picture.




I believe there was a close relative that owned the stables in town and dad always was there. He loved horses and had two as a child. Here he is on the right with a friend. In later years, he told me stories that he just loved riding the horses, bareback, with his friends through the fields, working the teams of horses bringing wood to town, and as his riding skills improved he was asked at a very young age to race against the indians at the summer fair. His mother was afraid for him as it was a very dangerous race but he did it and loved the challanges.




Dugald G Lyon ran the Government Liquor Store in Kelliher. Dad said he was always kind to the kids and had candy for them. Here he is on the stoop playing with Dad. I think he is teasing him with a chocolate bar. Dad carried on this tradition with me and when he visited with other kids.




Dad was a strong fella for his age and loved to work. He did lots of chores, helped his mom in the garden, brought in the firewood, worked in the stables, worked in the fields, grain trucks and the town Creamery.