Continuing my research on family connections to Rooster Town…

When Pierre Hogue, aka Peter Hogg, lived in Rooster Town, two of his sisters lived there also.

One of them was his sister Julia, born in Baie St. Paul November 18, 1875. On January 19, 1897 at St. Boniface, she married Charles Logan. Turns out that not only is Julia my first cousin twice removed, but Charles was my second cousin twice removed through my Dease line! Charles was the grandson of Thomas Logan and Mary Anne Dease, and the great grandson of Robert Logan and his native wife.

Following them in the census records we learn that in1901 Julia and Charles Logan were living with his parents, John Logan and Marie Dupuis, in Rooster Town, having already buried their first two children. Charles is listed as a labourer.

By 1906 they have two daughters and are living on Rosser (now Warsaw Avenue).

In 1911 they have four daughters and are living on Corydon Avenue. Charles is listed as a labourer for the City Street Department.

On December 16, 1915 Charles Logan enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He gave his date of birth as June 17, 1874 at St. Norbert ( it was actually June 20, 1876). He gives Julia as his wife, his address as 526 McMillan, and his occupation as a cook. He lists five daughters on his form. Vital statistics records show that he and Julia had already buried a one-day-old son.

Then tragedy struck. Julia died on February 8, 1916 in Stonewall, Manitoba. I don’t know the cause and haven’t uncovered an obituary. Perhaps she died in childbirth. What is certain is that the family no longer lives in Rooster Town.

In the 1916 census in June, Charles was enumerated as being widowed and in the military at Camp Hughes, while his 5 daughters lived with Charles’s father in Stonewall. His military career was not a good one. The CEF Personnel File for Private Charles Logan, Regimental #721290, indicates that he was AWOL a few times in 1916, and declared a deserter in September of that year. Possibly the death of Julia may have been the reason for his being AWOL. His life certainly took a few strange turns at this point.

On April 16, 1917 he made a Naturalization Declaration to become a United States citizen, claiming he had entered the USA at Pembina on July 10, 1916, and lived in Walhalla, North Dakota.

On May 26, 1917 one of his daughters died of tuberculosis in Walhalla.

On September 17, 1917, Charles Logan again enlisted in the CEF! He gave his date of birth as June 17, 1877. His address is Stonewall, his wife is Albina Logan and he had 3 daughters and one son. Between June 1916 and September 1917, a second daughter had passed away, and a son was born.

On the 22nd of September, 1917 Charles married Albina Logan, daughter of Joseph Logan and Mary Furlong.

Private Charles Logan Regimental #2320418 was in England from October 17, 1917 to December 24, 1918. His military service record indicates he spent a lot of that time in hospital.

While he was away, Albina gave birth to a daughter on January 16, 1918. This daughter was raised by Albina’s parents. In his obituary Charles did not acknowledge this daughter, although Albina and Charles’s other children did.

I haven’t been able to find the family in the 1921 Census, but Charles and Albina had a son born in 1920 in Narcisse, a town in the interlake, north of Stonewall. Two more daughters and one son would complete the family.

In the 1926 Census they are in still in Narcisse, but by 1935 they are living on Campbell Street in River Heights.

Charles Logan died on July 8, 1951. Albina died December 14, 1961.

One of Charles and Albina’s sons, Robert Joseph Logan, was with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and died shortly after the Normandy invasion in June of 1944. He is buried in France.

Albina also had a brother, Charles Logan, born in 1894. He also enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War, but was found to be “mentally deficient”. He never married and died in 1970, having outlived all his siblings.

I haven’t yet determined exactly how Albina’s father Joseph Logan fits into the Logan family.

More stories to come!