MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES
by Stanley R. Gillie
Harry Gillie was born in North Carolina, U.S.A., in 1889. He came
to Canada in 1912, homesteading in the Milk River area in 1921.
After numerous years of crop failures, because of droughts,
he gave up farming and accepted a position on the Tiffin
Dairy Farm, just outside of Lethbridge, where he met and
married Vilate Gold of Mountain View, Alberta.
In 1927 they bought the S.W.1/4 of Sec. 25-9-22, three miles
east of Coalhurst, where they farmed and raised a family of
nine children, all of whom received their education in Coalhurst.
Harry's wife Vilate was born on October 6, 1902, and was
working on the Tiffin Farm when she and Harry were married.
Vilate passed away in 1948.
Kermit Bruce was born on March 15, 1926, and died in January
1937.
Harry was a good farmer and well liked in the district. He
often left his own work to help someone in need. He was
one of the first farmers in the Lethbridge Northern Irrigation
District to grow sugar beets, and continued to do so until his
health failed in 1962. In 1964 he sold his farm and retired,
living in Coalhurst for two years, then he moved to Lethbridge,
where he lived until his passing in 1968.
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