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Samuel came to White
Valley around 1889 with his wife, four daughters and son. He was employed
at Seed's store as a clerk. His five children attended the first school
with Mr. Norris as a teacher. On October 1st, 1894 Sam took up a job as
postmaster at seed's store which he held until 1897. In June of 1895 he,
along with three others, proposed to build a cheese factory. There were
about three hundred milking cows in a radius of about three miles. No
sooner had they started the plans, Manitoba started shipping butter and
cheese to the Okanagan. Their rates were cheaper than that of the local
farmers so the farmers gave up.
By this time the McIlvanie girls were teenage beauties and Sam decided he had better move out of Lumby as he did not want them to be married to "a French Catholic". They moved to Vernon in 1897.
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