Historic Saskatchewan: Kindersley Memories

Relatives of former Kindersley and area residents recently posted some old photos on Historic Saskatchewan’s Facebook page.

Carl and Clara Baker (left) and Arsula and Leonard Baker, Kindersley, Sask., 1940.

This photo was labelled “Youth People’s Group 1940”, Kindersley, and the contributor couldn’t identify everyone in the photo. Front to back: Joyce Baker, Barbara Keyes, Muriel Baker, Myrtle Baker, Florence Keyes, Etta Baker, Dorothy Gallagher, (unknown), Calvin Baker, Robert Baker, (unknown), Ross Doner, (unknown), Enid Hahn, Bruce Baker, John Douglas.

Carl Baker drove a school taxi much like this one, except twice as large. According to Carl’s relative, Aubrey Hawton, the taxi was equipped with a side door and back door, just in case it tipped over and the kids needed to escape. It also had a small stove to keep it warm. The school board hired Carl to pick up other kids, as well as his own during the winter months.

An old newspaper article reported on these two sets of twins in Kindersley. Two sets of twins in one family is something of a record. Here are the four youngest members of Carl and Clara Baker’s family: (l-r): Myrtle and Muriel (12 years old), and Joyce and Grayce (7 years old). Carl and Clara Baker lived two and a half miles southeast of Kindersley and as well as the two sets of twins had five older children in the family.