SECOND GENERATION

3. Arvid Maunu was born on 27 Aug 1887 in Estelline, SD, USA. He died in 1966 in Thunder Bay ON. He was a in Farmer. Homestead 1 NW sect 2 Township 27 Range 6 W3

Homestead 2 SW sect 34 Township 25 Range 8 W3

He was married to Mary Salimen in 1911 in Dunblane, SK. The following from Ernest and Terry Mannu

Arvid (Arviti) Maunu Family


Arvid Maunu was born on August 27, 1887 in Estelline, South Dakota. In 1905 he and his older brother Sander emigrated to Canada and homesteaded E 2-27-6 W3rd in the Loreburn district of Saskatchewan. In 1911 he married Mary Hilda Salminen who was born in Saarijarvi, Finland on May 1, 1894. She emigrated from there to the Loreburn district in 1910. On April 8, 1913 he filed his second homestead on the west side of the South Saskatchewan River, SW 34-25-8 W3rd, 8 miles west and south of Dunblane (7-1/2 miles north/west of Birsay).

A few years later he sold his land to Hjalmar Hauta and bought E 13-26-8 W3rd, land originally homesteaded by Ole Wuonala in June 1909. He farmed this land until the family moved to Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1935.

They had four children, Eva, Arvid Jr. born on September 12, 1913, Esther, and Helvi.

In 1925 Arvid rented out his land and the family moved to Dunblane. With a team of horses he hauled rock to flatcars in Dunblane, which were then shunted to the site of the Elbow Bridge under construction at the time.

In the spring of 1926, the family moved to Mayger, Oregon where he purchased a cherry orchard. But the crops did not bring enough money to sustain the family so they moved back to Dunblane in August 1927. The next spring they moved back to the farm in Saskatchewan. The crops were good that year and the price of grain was high.

Unfortunately, the next few years saw the price of grain drop and the beginning of the drought set in. In the spring of 1935 Arvid decided to move to Port Arthur and he left his brother John to look after the farm.



Based on "Arvid Maunu Sr. and Family" by Arvid Maunu Jr. as it appeared in Echoes of Coteau with additional information by Ernest Maunu and Terry Maunu.