Basil Reginald Knight (Reggie) arrived with his family to the Lake Saskatoon District in 1927 and lived in Wembley for over a year. He was born in 1921. In 1929 they moved out to a thirteen-acre property with a three-story mission on site. The house was moved to Grande Prairie in 1938 and the property later sold. One wintery night in 1929, Reg slipped under the fence into an area where a wolf was being held, he was mauled quite badly and his life saved by a female husky. It took 104 stitches to sew up his leg and most people assumed this meant he would never walk again. However, in 1940 he was accepted into the Navy and was medically discharged that same year. He returned to Grande Prairie and worked as a plumber and tinsmith, then as a clerk at the Nelson Alberta Railways. In 1960 when the passengers’ trains quit running, he bought a property in Little Smoky and built the Esso station; it was sold in 1972. Basil R. Knight passed away in 1983 at the age of 62 and is buried in the City of Grande Prairie Cemetery.
- Lake Saskatoon Reflections, 1980, p. 252 & 253
- See brothers: Russell Noel, Thomas Vernon and Robert Owen