Fonds 0135 - Floyd Van Schaick fonds

Floyd Raymond Van Schaick was born in South Dakota in 1898. He emigrated to Alberta with his parents in 1905, and then moved to Flying Shot Lake where he took a homestead on the NE 36-70-8-W6th. As a teenager, Floyd finished his grade 8 under Maude Clifford at Flying Shot Lake School, and in 1917 enrolled in high school in Camrose. In 1918 he enlisted in the first World War and was sent overseas. He completed his high school in Ripon, Yorkshire after the war was over. In the fall of 1919, Floyd entered Brandon College, an outpost of McMaster University, and graduated with a degree in education in 1924. He taught for a number of years, finally ending up teaching high school science in Wetaskiwin. There he met and married Agnes Irvine. In 1933, Floyd and Agnes moved up to the Peace Country to live on his homestead. They had one child who died as an infant and later adopted a son, Beverley, and a daughter, Sylvia. Floyd was active with the United Church, the United Farmers of Alberta and the Bear Lake Rural Electrification Association. Agnes died c. 1970, and Floyd re-married to Jean Bunyan.