Russell Noel Knight was born in Regina, SK on December 25th, 1919. He arrived with his family to the Lake Saskatoon District in 1927 and lived in Wembley for over a year. 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. On the farm they raised a couple of milk cows, some pigs, chickens, turkeys, and had an old race horse called Dolly. One evening, Dolly was tethered in the yard as it wasn’t fenced. Russell went out to move the tether dressed only in long johns. As he came up behind Dolly, he spooked her and she kicked him in the head. His brothers picked him up with one eye hanging on his cheek bone. Luckily, they were able to get help and get him to Grande Prairie. He made a full recovery and joined the Navy in 1938. He married Elizabeth Everald Chard. He passed away on June 14th, 1997 at the age of 77 years in Saanich, BC and is buried in Hatley Memorial Gardens, BC.
- Lake Saskatoon Reflections, 1980, p. 252 & 253
See brothers: Basil Reginald, Thomas Vernon and Robert Owen