Dave and Alex Argo

The Argo brothers came to the district later to be known as Weedon, about 1903.  Dave homesteaded the NE¼ of 16-27-4-5 and Alex took up the adjoining NW¼.

Dave built the log house which still stands today on a grassy knoll; no doubt he hauled the logs from Quigley’ s sawmill in the bush some 12 miles northwest. It is known that he helped his neighbours, Charlie Webb and Sam Timmins, to build their log houses about the same time.

Alex joined up at the outbreak of war in 1914. He was killed in action shortly after entering  Active Service, whereupon Dave immediately left the farm and joined up. He, too, was killed in action early in the war. It is believed that Dave and Alex‘s parents were living on Dave‘s farm when the news of his death was received. It was a heartbreaking message for someone from Cochrane to deliver.