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The Mekiwin district was first settled by Alex. Halliday, the McGregors, Wm. Ferguson and John Ingram in 1874 and 1875.

The Salisbury district (Salisbury was the first post office in this part of the added territory later referred to) was settled by Hector McLean, Hugh and Robert Riddle, Stephen Orton, Jas. T. Crawford, and Wm. Miller in 1876 and 1877 and here Wm. Miller for some years ran a store and stopping place.

All about the district the settlers were coming. M.E. Boughton, Samuel McGorman, W.S. Burton, the Van Blaricoms, the Montgomerys, Marshall Scott, Jas. Tennant, Jas. Sutherland, Harry Bowe, Wm. Babcock settled along the Arden Ridge and the adjacent Glenholm. A little farther west and extending into the Eden district were Alfred Greentree, Donald Fraser, Arthur Kilburn, Jas. Gardiner and his sons, Alfred Chatwin, Geo. Edwards, Harry, James, John, Robert, and Thomas Honeyman, Richard Edwards, Peter Inglish, and mostly arrivals of 1878. East of Neepawa were Duncan McLaren, James Dark, James Drysdale, the Ritchie family, Pat Dempsey, Samuel and John Buchanan, Walter and John Hunter, David Bigg, Wm. Stevens and Andrew Baker on the future townsite, mainly arrivals of 1878. C.C. Turpin used to claim that he was the first settler in Glendale. A considerable settlement in Glendale of English people - Pattisons, Chisholms, Dyers, Laidler and Loggan came about 1879, and in this year James Molland, Robt, Dunsmore, Wm. and Geo. McLaughlin, Geo. Little, Wm. Robinson and Jos. Hamilton, the Petchs, Wm. Watson, Moses, Timothy and James Poole, W.J. Sharman, James Hill, Alex. Ross, Duncan Laing settled, mainly in Glendale.

In the north a similar settlement was beginning - slower because the district there was then heavily wooded. John Grover, John Bare, John Birnie, Stephen Impett, the Edens.

West and northwest of the town were A.C. Sewell, who homesteaded in 1876, Richard Campbell, R.C. Campbell, the Kerrs, George, John, Robert and James; J.R. Begley, Wm. Connell, Fraser Stevens, David Coulter, Wm. Galloway, and between Neepawa and Eden the Smiths, Jos. Jackson, W.H. McKinnon, Wm. Hamilton, Robinson Hamilton, Jos. Hamilton, Layngs.

These were the earliest of a stream that was steadily flowing and growing in numbers and still the only access to the district was by way of the trails. It is interesting to note that many of the newcomers had lived in what then was the older settlements of Manitoba, Red River, Portage la Prairie.