Malcolm McLaren, his wife,
and sons John, James, Duncan, Dugald and Archibald, came to the
Fairview area in 1878 and became prominent citizens and farmers.
Each of their sons, except Archibald who was too young, filed for
homesteads.
They lived in a sod shanty until they could get logs for a house. This
house was the first one in the district and also on the plain. The
lumber for floors and windows, etc., was hauled from Winnipeg by horses
and oxen, as the railway wouldn’t arrive for another two years. This
house still stood, unoccupied, on the spot where it was built until the
modern era.
The Mr. and Mrs. McLaren lived, like their neighbors, in this
comfortable log house until 1907 when they built a fine new house.
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