Fondo 0586 - Charles McNaught Family fonds

Charles and Eliza McNaught arrived in the Peace Country from Glen Morris, Ontario in 1912 with Marion and Betty, two of their five children. Son John was then teaching at Carberry, Manitoba, and daughters Margaret and Isabel had stayed behind in Ontario to continue their education.
The McNaughts had come on the recommendation of Charles’ brother Samuel McNaught, who settled in the Beaverlodge district in 1909 with a Methodist group called the Bull Outfit. Charles and Eliza purchased land with South African Scrip in the Halcourt area south of Beaverlodge. In 1913 Charles' sister Jane McNaught brought the girls Margaret and Isabel west, traveling by train to Edson where Charles met them, and then continuing up the Edson Trail. John McNaught joined his family after serving in World War I, traveling over that same trail.
Charles, Samuel and Jane were the three surviving children of Samuel McNaught Sr. and his wife Euphemia “Jane” Crosby, who had immigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1834. They had purchased land on Burford Rd. in Glen Morris, Ontario, and were living there when Jane was born ca. 1845, Samuel in 1855 and Charles in 1857. Jane McNaught never married and passed away in Beaverlodge. Samuel McNaught's family consisted of his wife Elizabeth Brown and their two children, Mary and Crosbie. Mary married Percy Hunkin in 1932. In 1936 Crosbie was president of the Monkman Pass Highway Association, led by Alex Monkman. Elizabeth McNaught died in 1958, and Crosbie moved to the Northwest Territories for work. He died there in 1962.
The McNaught family was very involved in the establishment of the communities of Appleton and Halcourt, south of Beaverlodge, as well as many of the local groups and societies associated with those communities.