Other Events and Attributes:

• _ADDR: Between 1924 and 1937, Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
• _ADDR: 1938, Knouff Lake, north of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
• _ADDR: Between 1957 and 2000, Quesnell, British Columbia, Canada

Notes:

Al Holley wrote and published in 2000 his Autobiography entitled "Don't Shoot from the Saddle,- Chronicles of a Frontier Surgeon".

CMAJ.[Canadian Medical Journal] 2001 February 20; 164(4): 607. : Holley, D. Alexander, Quesnel, BC; University of Alberta, 1951; general surgery; FACS, FRCSC; former chief of staff and surgery, G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital; president, BC Surgical Society. Died from stroke-related complications Oct. 5, 2000; survived by his wife, Judi, and 3 children. He started the first Intensive Care Unit in BC. Colleague Norman Hamilton commented: ?After graduation he practised in the Northwest Territories, where he quickly learned to mush a dog team for house calls. He was a keen outdoorsman, hunter and cowboy, and his pranks were legendary, including a staged train robbery. Prior to his death he completed his memoirs Don't Shoot from the Saddle ? Chronicles of a Frontier Surgeon.?

Name:
Ancestry.com Nov 2006 online gave full name.

Birth:
site of L. Curtis Boyle, 2010.

_ADDR:
Lived on the wheat farm until it was too dry to raise crops, so they sold and moved to Knouff Lake, BC.

_ADDR:
Family moved from Saskatchewan to an old abandoned farm.

Donald married WEPPLER, D. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living with brothers and sisters, in the household next to their parents, in 1901 census. He is listed as the head of the household at the time, even though in the middle of them in age.

He lived near Lucky Lake Saskatchewan for awhile before moving to BC (verified by the book ?Don?t Shoot From the Saddle? by Dr. Donald Alexander Holley).

The Flesherton Advance for Jan. 12, 1911 has a notice to the public from Robert about his having just bought out a Mr. F.J. Weber?s general store business at Kimberley, ON. It also mentions that he had just moved to Kimberley on Jan. 11.

The Flesherton Advance for Jan. 3, 1923 has Robert and two daughters (Edith and Freda) coming to visit Sam Croft and his wife on New Years, and that they were living at Theo, SK at the time.

Family officially moved to BC (near Vinsulla, initially) in 1937.

Death date from Flesherton Advance, March 31, 1943. Dr. Holley?s book says he suffered from a stroke on March 21, but survived, never recovering consciousness, for about a week. Dr. Holley found Robert lying in the snow near the woodlot on their property.

From his nephew?s (Elmer Howard) family history:

Robert Arthur was a hard working, good-natured, big, honest, handsome fellow who was also a mason, brick or stone. He farmed as a young man in partners with Chas on the old home in Ontario. He married Kate Neeley, sister to the wife of brother Peter Edward. Rob operated a general store in Kimberly, Ont. for a while; also a livery barn in Meaford Ont. Later he moved to Saskatchewan where he carried on farming. Then he moved to B.C. in the early ?30s. He passed away in the hospital at Quesnell in 1942,I think. Raised a family of seven: Ella, Harvey, Arthur, Edith, Wilmot, Freda, and Alex, all living in B.C. (except Freda). From web site of Curtis Boyle, Jan., 2011.

Died:
BC Death Index # 1943-09-620728. Had a stroke while working at the woodlot on their farm, and died a week later.

Robert married NEELY, Catherine "Kate" in 1907. Catherine was born in 1879 in Rocklyn, Ontario, Canada; died on 14 May 1958 in Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Catherine "Kate" Holley

Notes:

Died:
BC reg# 1958-09-005718

Notes:

obit in Markdale Standard p5.

Birth:
1851 census gives age 15yrs. 1901 census gives 1834, not '36. 1911 Census gives Nov 1834, German ancestry. so will use 1834 instead of 1836.

Died:
HOLLEY, John, m, Aug. 31, 1917, 84 years, Canada, cause ? senile decay, farmer of Lot 19 Conc. 10, Artemesia, interment at Meaford Road Cemetery, parents ? Adam Holley & Sarah Chenie, infm ? Charles Holley of Flesherton. Artemesia Tp. (Grey Co) 013623-17

John married HARVEY, Hannah Margaret on 27 Sep 1859 in Grey Co., Ontario, Canada. Hannah (daughter of HARVEY, Robert and CHRISTNER, Barbara) was born on 17 Jul 1837 in Ontario, Canada; died on 31 Mar 1917 in Vandeleur, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Hannah Margaret Holley

Notes:

Birth:
Her baptism in 1856 according to Curtis Boyle, gives her birthdate. Although on the 1901 census, it gives 16 July 1838, age 62.

Died:
HOLLEY, Hannah Margaret, f, Mar. 31, 1917, 79 years 8 months, Canada, cause ? broncho pneumonia,14 months heart weakness, interment at Artemesia, father ? Mr. Harvey, infm ? Ed Holley of Meaford. Artemesia Tp. (Grey Co) 013610-17