A History of "D" Company Pipe Band, S.L.I.

Stuart loved the bagpipes (played well, of course). He was Pipe Major of  the 2nd North Saskatchewan Regiment Pipe Band.

A more recent member of the band wrote to him in 1992, requesting a history of the Pipe Band that made the small town of Kindersley, Saskatchewan, unique.  That letter is here, saved through Stuart's habit of printing out copies of the letters he wrote on his wordprocessor.

Stuart's piping instructors, Pipe Majors Edward Peden and William Murdoch, were two of the best pipers in the country. Stuart recorded some of his lessons on his ever-present reel-to-reel tape recorder, and these will be converted to a digital format at a later date.

Stuart credited his wife, Mary, for the sequence of events that led to his acquisition of the organ at Grace Church. It was she who found the ad for the old set of bagpipes for sale, which eventually led to Stuart's being in Winnipeg in July of 1955, at the precise time the church was to be demolished.