Son of John Wallace Wishart (1813-1865) & Jessie McKean (1814-1888)

Husband of Clementina McLean (1847-1892)
Married in 1872 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
Clementina is actually buried beside Robert in Riverside Cemetery,
Plot N/A, Section 128, Block 1(confirmed by cemetery administration)

Second marriage to Maria Lister Wishart (1851-1904)
Maria is not buried in Riverside Cemetery (confirmed by cemetery administration).

Manitoba Death Reg #1908-003959

Biography modified from 1970 Dauphin Historical Society, Dauphin Valley Spans The Years.pdf
http://www.mb1870.org/localhistory/139%20-%20Dauphin%20Historical%20Society%20Dauphin%20Valley%20Spans%20The%20Years.pdf

"The town of Wishart, Saskatchewan was named for one of its earliest settlers, a Robert Wishart, who was of Scottish descent and the first homesteader in a district known as the Round Plain area.
Robert was born near Guelph, Ontario on May 23, 1847. He was the fourth son of John Wishart, a ships carpenter from Edinburgh, and Jessie McKean. Robert's parents emigrated to Canada within a year of their marriage in 1833 and (eventually) settled in Eramosa Township in Wellington County, Ontario where John became a farmer.
In 1870, whilst working as a mason (at age 23), Robert became a Private in the 1st Ontario Rifles, Second Company and had ventured westwards with the Red River Expeditionary Force who were soldiers collected from the Militia Units of Quebec and Ontario in early 1870 for service in the Northwest. They were to "Show the Flag" in Ruperts Land (the new Province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories). It was possibly during this period that "Mahogany Bob" got his first look at the area in which he would finally live.
Robert was discharged from military service in Winnipeg during 1871 and married Clementina McLean the following year in Portage La Prairie where Robert established himself on a farm just north of town, subsequently owned by the late E. W. Snyder. In May, 1875, the family of Robert's older brother William reached Portage La Prairie from Jamestown, Missouri, where they had resided for the previous five years. Robert and Clementina Wishart had four children in Manitoba before temporarily heading back to Ontario where by February 1880, they had been living in Fergus. Later that year, Robert left Ontario having been granted land in the Touchwood Hills, about 90 miles from Fort Qu'Appelle and arrived via Portage La Prairie by oxen. He worked raising horses and cattle and initially lived with his family in a log cabin, however three year later he constructed a sturdier house made from hewn logs. The brick, finishing lumber, flooring and lime used in the new domicile had to be hauled from Qu'Appelle. Five Wishart children were subsequently born at the Wishart homestead, including the first European child in the area, who was appropriately named Robert Touchwood Wishart.
Robert helped build the first local school, known as the Round Plains school, and also the first church in 1888 (prior to which, serviced had been held in Robert's home). Rubies had been discovered on the property whilst digging a well for the homestead, however none were ever found in sufficient quantities to warrant selling them. (They were almost certainly NOT rubies as this makes no sense geologically!)
Two stories concerning Robert and his family in this period have survived :
"Occupational hazard such as Indians during the Riel Rebellion and prairie fires were events from which the family escaped relatively easily. John Wellington Wishart (1873-1959) as a small boy was given the task of bringing home the cows: one night, he saw a prairie fire raging in a strong wind. He knew he couldn't drive the cattle fast enough to stay ahead of it so he burned a patch of grass, and drove them onto that. he and the cattle stood there is complete safety on their little black island while the big fire burned past them and went on its destructive way, leaving a black sea in its wake.
Another story of the Wishart family would indicate that they had a large amount of a 'presence of mind'. Mrs. Clementina Wishart was a real horsewoman and would take her turn at rounding up the cattle. On one such occasion her horse threw her as it fell, right in front of a bad tempered bull. As he prepared to attack her, Mrs. Wishart threw herself on the ground, facing him, and when he approached she coolly produced the pistol she invariably carried when thus employed, and shot the animal dead in his tracks".
By 1891, having survived successive years of drought, and continuing shortage of feed for his stock, Robert made the decision to move the family to the Dauphin Valley, which had a reputation for 'luxuriant growth' and ample water supply. With Clementina and his ten children in tow, Robert left in May with a buckboard, two wagons, horses and cattle. The Wisharts passed through Yorkton, Saskatchewan on the 24th before travelling over one hundred miles along rough prairie trails to Dauphin, where they arrived on June 4, 1891.
Less than a year later, Clementina died in Dauphin on March 28, 1892. Eight years later, on June 28, 1900 in Simcoe, Ontario, Robert married Maria Lister from Fergus. Maria lived with her husband and stepchildren in Dauphin until March 2, 1904 when she died. Robert died five years later on December 29, 1908.