Hayward Ernest Carter arrived in Edmonton in 1904, from Norfolk County, England. Having apprenticed to a baker in the Old Country, he found employment as a cook in the Queen's Hotel, later the Selkirk, at Jasper and 101 St. The second day after his arrival he tried to stop a runaway team on Jasper Avenue and got a broken thumb for his trouble.
He took out a homestead at Lake Wabamun where he and one of the Woollards* lived in a "soddie" made into a sidehill so they only had to make one wall. About 1906, Mr. Carter ran a stopping place on Moonlight Bay and began hauling freight in and around the whole area.
Katherine Lloyd and her brother Ralph came from Nova Scotia to a homestead near Duffield. Ralph was killed when his bull and one from the Indian Reserve got in a fight. Katherine Lloyd taught school at Bruderheim, Wang and Smithfield where she met Hayward Carter. Katherine and Hayward were married in 1909, by Bishop Hoyler in what is now Mill Woods Moravian Church.
Back at Wabamun, they owned a bakery and confectionary, traded with the Indians, ran a livery barn and traded horses. During the First World War, Mr. Carter packed fish for Menzies using mine cars to haul the fish from the lake to the icehouse. In 1916, he bought an Oakland car, which he drove to Edmonton once, but it ended up in the muskeg when he tried to show his friends how fast it would go. There it stayed till freeze-up. He traded it for fish.
They had three sons: Ernest, was born in 1910 and is presently in Edmonton; Leroy was born in 1912; Leslie was born in 1914. The latter sons are living in Lamont. Roy married in 1935 and has five children and eight grandchildren.
Roy remembers "Pat of the Mission", an Anglican Missionary, who had been a boxer in England and who quickly put an end to the interference of two drunks at the Christmas Concert. He also remembers Dr. Carthew and his wife who always bought all the mushrooms that the boys picked. He also remembers Andrew Anderson coming across the Lake on "clampon skates" and carrying a long pole in case he went through the ice.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayward Carter moved to Lamont in 1920 where Hayward carried on a livestock business for many years. Katherine Carter passed away in 1950 and Hayward Carter passed away in February, 1974.
Editor's Note: *This was most likely George Woollard, cousin of Edwin, Stan, Vic and Jessie Woollard and Ethel Laight. He came to Canada with H.E. Carter in 1904.