THE ING FAMILY IN 1986

THOMAS AND MARTHA (FORSBURY) ING

Thomas George Ing of the London area was born in April 1835. His father was Robert Ing, but I have found no record of his mother's name. At the age of 30, Thomas married Martha Jane Forsbury on December l9th 1865, at Bethnal Green (a hamlet in the London area).

Martha was the daughter of James Forsbury, who worked as a carman (probably for the railway). Again, the mother's name was omitted from the record. Since Martha was born in London's Paddington district on August l0th, 1847, she was 18 years old at the time she married. Martha had a sister Mary and a brother George. She also had a half-brother James Waller who went to Australia.

Mary Forsbury married Jack [William] Shipgood. Their family were Eliza, Elizabeth, Mary, Nellie, Alice and Jack. Eliza married Alfred Goss. Their family are Sydney, Walter, Ernest, Donald, Bert, and an adopted girl Cissy.

Thomas and Martha Ing had a family of 10 children. Five of them died very young.

William Robert Ing (born 8 January l868) died 7 November 1875, aged 7 years.

Emily Jane Ing (born 13 Aug l869) died 17 November 1870, aged 1 year.

Jane Ing (born 20 January 1876) died 14 December l880, aged 4 years.

Frederick John Ing (born 9 or 10 April 1878) died 22 December 1880, aged 2 years.

Henry Charles Ing (born 10 August 1879) died 22 March 1891, aged 11 years.

What a heart-breaking Christmas season it must have been for this family in l880 - to lose 2 year old Frederick and 4 year old Jane within the space of just a few days.

The five remaining children all grew to become adults.

Marian Ing (born 25 February 1884) married William Smith on the 12 of December 1905. She died of tuberculosis on 3 December 1908, just three years later. Her death was one of the factors contributing to the decision by some of the family to come to Canada. By this time Thomas Ing sr. had died. Martha and Ada were working in a laundry, and it was feared that the wet working conditions created a serious risk of tuberculosis. They hoped that Canada would be a much healthier environment. We tend to ignore the serious danger that that people faced from diseases until a generation ago. Most diseases were classed as incurable.

Thomas Ing jr. (born 12 September 1866) never married. He came to Canada, and farmed in east-central Alberta until his retirement. For a while he and his mother were both in the St. Joseph's Hospital in Edmonton. He died at Daysland, Alberta, 24 December 1938.

James Alfred Ing (born 27 October 1872) was perhaps the first to come to Canada. On June 11, 1902 he married Elizabeth Jane Hatherley. They had four children:

George Alfred Ing was born 25 July 1903. George never married. George is an inventor at heart. He enjoys repairing old machinery, creating things himself, the peace and tranquillity of the simple life. When he has company he likes to entertain them by playing the violin and harmonica simultaneously. He lives a very simple but self-sufficient life at Kirriemuir, Alberta.

Millicent Marian Ing was born 25 October 1906. She married Carl Hartwick Hagen, 19 December 1927. Their family are:

Alvin Gilbert Hagen (born 7 March 1930) - only lived for one week.

Nyda Elizabeth Hagen (born 26 May 1932) - stillborn.

Harold James Hagen (born 17 July 1936)

Alfred Carl (born 19 June 1939)

Harold and Alfie have both married and have families.

Carl Hartwick Hagen passed away 3 February 1979.

Hetty Ann Louise Ing was born 10 September 1908 and married Theodore Roosevelt Chapin 16 December 1925. Their family are Pearl Chapin, Joyce Chapin, and Theodore Chapin jr.

The stories of the James Ing and Theodore Chapin sr. families are told in this book by Hetty Chapin.

Richard Samuel Ing was born 18 September 1881. He married Louisa Ellen Wright 6 July 1913. Their family are Marian, Walter, Charles, Dorothy, Violet end Myrtle. Their stories are given elsewhere in this book.

Richard passed away 25 October 1967.

Ada Louisa Ing was born 29 February 1888, a leap-year baby, and was the youngest of the ten children. She married Walter James Suter and they had a family of 11 children:

Walter Suter jr, Ada Suter, Violet Suter, Bob Suter, Edward Suter, Herbert Suter, Charlie Suter, May Suter, Ethel Suter, Gordon Suter, and Donald Suter. She died in Edmonton, Alberta 10 April 1957 and is buried in Edson.

This account is mainly taken from a record prepared for Millicent Ing) Hagen in 1936 by her mother Jane (Hatherley) Ing and her aunt Louisa (Wright) Ing, and up-dated by Millicent to Dec 1980.

One puzzle that I have been unable to unravel is the exact time of arrival in Canada by various members of the Thomas Ing family. Martha and Ada came after Marian's death, so they probably arrived in 1908 or 1909. James married Jane Hatherley in Canada in 1902. Whether Richard and Thomas jr came at the same time as James or later I haven't been able to find out. [Later]

JAMES AND JANE (HATHERLEY) ING

James Alfred Ing was born in London, England on the 27th of October 1872. His parents were Thomas and Martha (Forsbury) Ing. He came to Canada as a boy, earning passage by working on a cattle boat and then found work in Ontario. On the llth of June 1902 he married Elizabeth Jane Hatherley.

Jim homesteaded in the Rainy River area of western Ontario. His daughter Millicent continues:

Then in 1910 he came west and filed on a homestead near Irma, Alberta. He worked in the Camrose area, helping to lay some of the sidewalks in Camrose. After hearing of prairie land to be had further east with no brushing to do, he gave up his homestead at Irma and homesteaded in the Kirriemuir district, then called Wilhemina. He came back east and got our belongings, one of which was our Indian pony, Ned.

He built a frame house then went out to work cooking on the Wheatsheaf threshing outfit.

In 1912 my mother Elizabeth Jane Ing, brother George, and sister Hetty, and I came west by train to Macklin, Saskatchewan, which was our closest town then. Our neighbor Mr. Herbert Walker met us there and took us to my uncle Richard Ing's place. I went to see Dad on the cookcar and I remember he fed us all the pie we wanted.

We children were just like wild animals let out of a cage. We were so happy with our new freedom of running over the hills and trapping, snaring and drowning out gophers. We soon got some horses and cattle. We had to drive our cattle to a spring nearly a mile from home for water. In winter this was a very cold job, but we didn't mind it. We had the horses trained so we didn't even need a halter on them. We rode bareback and steered them by slapping them on one side or the other of their necks.

Dad drew the plans for our school, which was Dry Lake. I was six when we came to Wilhemina and it must have been several years later that the school was built. We sometimes didn't have school in winter.

Dad also tried his hand at photography, and we still have some of the photos he took. His camera took glass plates and he developed and printed them himself. He had to work sway from home often to keep things going and took any kind of job, even cooking in bush camps.

When we didn't have school one winter I went to Calgary to take my grade seven but I got so homesick my folks had to sell chickens to get money to bring me home. Then we attended school at Altario.

The children were growing up. In 1925 Hetty Ing married Theodore Chapin and in 1927 Millicent Ing married Hart Hagen. George remained a bachelor and eventually took over the homestead.

A magazine article attracted Jim's interest to the Norbuck area. In the summer of 1931 he worked at Nelson's mill and really liked the district so he filed on his fourth homestead. In 1932 the James Ing and Ted Chapin families moved to the Norbuck area. The Hagens followed in 1937.

Jim and Jane farmed there until they retired to Breton in the late 1940s. Jane, whose sight had been failing for years had become blind. To most of us this would seem like an insurmountable obstacle, but she had the spirit to carry right on with her housework. They moved to Edmonton and on the lst December 1950 she passed away.

Later Jim moved to Bawlf to be near the Hagen family. He bought a little trailer house and lived in Hagen's yard. He moved with them to Ohaton. Soon after, his health gave out and he had to move to the Bethany Nursing Home in Camrose, where he passed away December 3rd 1959 at the age of 87.

GEORGE ING

George Ing is the son of Jim and Jane Ing, and the brother of Hetty Chapin and Millicent Hagen. He came with his family to the Kirriemuir district in 1912 as a boy of nine.

As a young man he tried his hand at a variety of jobs. One of these was working on the crew that ploughed the fire-guard for the C.P.R. from Kirriemuir to Kerrobert, a distance of about 65 miles. They used a two furrow gang-plough and four horses to plough a guard sixteen feet wide.

George also worked at threshing, sawing wood, grading the roads and working at Burrough's sawmill at Norbuck. However, his first love was farming, and he settled on his father's homestead.

He has a strong interest in all things mechanical and spent many happy hours working on engines. He made himself a power saw, an automatic bale loader and other work-saving devices. He did blacksmith work and sharped plough shares. He also did well drilling and either owned or had an interest in three horse driven rigs. The deepest well he dug was 96 feet and it was a dry hole. However he dug a 40 foot well for Lou Vert and it was almost a flowing well.

George also liked working with horses, and he took Professor Jesse Barrie's course on horse training by mail. He stated that any horse that had sense enough to eat had sense enough to be trained, and he broke some pretty good ones.

He also liked hunting coyotes with hounds. He built a box on his cutter for his dogs, and travelled many miles around the area south of Ki rriemuir and north of Altario. One sassy old coyote had been attacking farmer's dogs. George went after him and killed him south of Kirriemuir. One day his hounds startled the horses of the Schmidt girls north of Altario and caused a runaway. The girls were putting on a load of feed and were not on the wagon at the time. George and a neighboring farmer caught the horses and returned them to the girls.

All through the years George has loved music. He has acquired a number of instruments: a harmonica, an autoharp, an accordion and a violin. He learned a wide selection of waltzes, jigs, square dances, minuets and polkas, and is always willing to liven up a social gathering with his music.

George has remained a bachelor and these lines by Sam Foss might have been written about him:

"I see from my house by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with strife.
But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears,
Both parts of an infinite plan.
Let me sit in my house by the side of the road,
And be a friend to man."

I copied this from the Kirriemuir history book.

- Millicent Hagen

HARTWICK AND MILLICENT (ING) HAGEN

Millicent's parents were James and Jane Ing. She was born on the 25th October 1906 at La Vallee, Ontario. In 1912 the family came west to homestead at Kirriemuir, Alberta.

Millicent recalls this from her childhood:

"I remember well when Uncle Dick and Aunt Cissy were married. We were looking forward to having a new aunty, and could hardly wait for them to arrive from the train. Someone asked "If Uncle Dick teases her like he teases us do you think she will go straight back to England? Well even if she does we will still call her Aunty. We really wanted an aunty very badly, and we weren't disappointed. When their children started arriving we treated them like dolls. "

The children loved the wide open spaces of their prairie district and formed long lasting friendships with their neighbors.

Schooling was somewhat unpredictable, as the Dry Lake School often closed down for the winter. Millicent took part of grade 7 in Calgary, but soon returned home. After that, they attended school at Altario. It was while attending school at Altario that they met the Hagen family. There were three girls and four boys.

She married Hart Hagen on the l9th of December 1927.

Millicent writes the following account of the Jim Ing, Hart Hagen, and Ted Chapin families in the 1920s to 1950s:

I married Hart in 1927. We lived on our farm north of Altario in summer and on my dad's farm at Kirriemuir in the winter.

In 1930 our first boy was born, but lived only one week. In 1932 we had a baby girl still-born. We rented the Bickle farm and were living there in 1936 when our son Harold was born. He was a good healthy boy and brought us much joy.

We farmed there for several years but got dried out, not getting our seed back. The government shipped in seed and feed, but with drought and grasshoppers we finally gave up.

My folks and Ted and Hetty Chapin had moved to Winfield, Alberta, and liked it there, so in 1937 we moved there.

The first of our family to arrive at Norbuck was my Dad, James Ing. The reason he became interested in that part of the country was that he had read in Home Loving Hearts, of a Mrs. Bunney that grew an exceptionally large carrot. He thought it must be a good district.

After successive crop failures at Kirriemuir, Alberta, he left for Norbuck in the spring of 1929. He didn't have money to file on a homestead, so he worked for Sanford Nelson at $15.00 a month, which was going wages then. He filed on the south-west quarter of section seven. He returned to Kirriemuir and in 1931 he and my mother, and my sister Hetty Chapin, and her husband, and her two little girls, Pearl and Joyce moved to Norbuck. Mr. Chapin senior followed later .

In the spring of 1937 I came to visit my folks at Norbuck while Hart looked for a new location. He didn't find anything suitable so he came there and liked the country. He came by car and was the first one to drive with a car to Uncle Dick's. We soon sold the car.

We lived in a tent the first summer, then in a log shack on my Dad's place. We bought the south-east quarter of section seven, the same section as my Dad, and fixed up the old log house that was there.

We had another son, Alfred, born at Rimbey in 1939. We had a hard time getting established as Hart had swamp fever the first summer we were there and suffered from ulcers on his eye afterwards. He later had to have his eye removed.

We managed to get seventeen acres cleared and broken. We had some very good crops of oats, barley and hay. We had no fences so we had a hard time keeping track of our cows. They would often get across the canyon. This canyon ran between our place and my Dad's and I often had to walk across with the baby in my arms. When I came back I often had groceries in a pack on my back and the baby in my arms with Harold running beside me.

Our closest post office and store was at Norbuck. Hart often carried groceries from there in a packsack, a distance of four miles.

When Harold became school age we had to take correspondence school for him, as we were too far from the schools at Norbuck or Wenham Valley. Our neighbors were Tom Swanby, Ole Thompson, Leonard Erickson, 0'Briens, Hastings, Mayers, and our relatives Mrs. Carrie Hatherley, Willie and Florence Hatherley - who lived where Ray Matthews is now, and Uncle Dick Ing's family, and my folks.

We had a spring down at the creek on our place. We had to carry all our water from there, and I washed clothes down there in the summer. It was about a quarter mile from the house. we later set off a dynamite charge in the well by the house and a piece of rock flew out and cut off a poplar tree beyond the barn where the men had gone for shelter. We had water in the well after that.

We skidded logs up from the canyon, sawed them into blocks, and loaded a double wagon box and sold it in Winfield for one dollar and fifty cents a load.

We finally purchased a horse and made a cart from two wagon wheels. I used to go to a Ladies Aid meeting in Wenham Valley, and on the way home one of the wheels came off. They were too heavy for me to lift, so I got my two little boys on the horse and got on the horse myself and rode home.

Another time I had taken Dad's horse and buggy and picked up Aunt Carrie and Florence and we drove up by Swanby's to pick berries. On the way back we stopped to pick peas from my garden and had tied the horse to a gatepost. Alfred had just fallen asleep so we left him in the buggy and were keeping a close watch, but when we looked up again the horse and buggy were gone. We saw the tracks leading down the trail through the bush towards the canyon. When I caught up to her she had crossed a narrow bridge on the creek, and a steep hill and bridge over the canyon, and was standing at the gate to Dad's pasture. It took an experienced driver to drive through that road, so I'm sure the Lord rode in that buggy and guided it that day. The baby was crying but unhurt, but our berries were spilled.

For entertainment we met in different homes and played games and music. We also met for prayer meetings and song services. We had Sunday School at Norbuck School and sometimes attended the Church at Knob Hill. One Christmas there was no snow on the ground and we went with the Ted Chapins to the Christmas concert at Knob Hill in a lumber wagon. What a bumpy ride! One Christmas the Knob Hill Ladies group sent us a large parcel. I hope they know how much it was appreciated.

Hart was good at trapping weasels but one Christmas when we were short of money he took the traps to Breton and sold them. He came home with so many mysterious parcels that even I didn't know what was in them. The boys and I had trimmed a tree, and we look back on that as one of our nicest times at Christmas. We always got together with the relatives for Christmas day, either at my folks' or Uncle Dick Ing's.

When I arrived at Winfield by bus, I heard that the fires were bad around Chapin's and Ing's and everyone was busy fighting them. There was no one there to greet me so I took a room at the hotel and bathed and fed the baby and had put him to bed. I was preparing for bed myself when my brother-in-law, Ted Chapin, came to get me. I was thankful to the hotel man (I can't remember his name), as he gave me back my money and didn't charge me anything for using the room. We stayed at O'Brien's that night, as the rest of my folks were at Chapin's. Dad had buried all the valuables from his house in case it burned, but they managed to save it.

Once when I was alone with the children I got up in the morning and saw a bear by the barn. I took the rifle and fired a shot to scare it. It kept coming back and Hart was afraid to leave home to go to work. It only came at night, so he couldn't get a shot at it. He finally set the gun so that it would fire itself, using honey for bait. However, the bear only wounded itself and he couldn't find it in the dark. So he got Walter and Charlie Ing to come, and they found it not far from our house. It took a shot from each of their guns to kill it. We were afraid to let the children out to play after that, and I carried a gun when I went out to milk the cows, but we soon forgot about it and life went on as usual.

We sent to the W.W. Arcade in Edmonton for wire and strung it through the trees across to my Dad's. We each had a pair of old radio earphones and this served as our telephone and saved us many a trip back and forth. It ran on the fence to Hasting's, Chapin's and Hatherley's as well.

There is not much comparison between then and now. Now there is power, telephones and good roads, we had poor roads and no power or telephones.

We liked it at Norbuck but it was hard to make a living and we were too far from school. In 1943 we moved to Bawlf. Hart worked there for farmers in the district driving tractors and other implements. He was good with animals and made a little extra treating sick animals etc.

Mother passed away in 1950 and some time later Dad moved to our place. We lived there for thirteen years, and our boys grew up there.

Harold took to trucking and now lives in Prince George, B.C. and has his own trucking business.

In 1956 we moved to Ohaton to work for Jim Mohler. He raised a lot of cattle and pigs and heard that Hart was a good man with stock. He also farmed a lot of land, so Hart had year-round work instead of just summer work as he had at Bawlf. Alf was still with us when we we moved there and worked for Mohler too. Then when Mohler retired we moved to the town of Ohaton. Alf worked on oil servicing rigs and became a boilerman.

We finally sold our house in Ohaton and bought one here in Camrose and moved there in the spring of 1974.

With all our moving around we have always been happy and contented. We have enjoyed living here in Camrose and celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary here in 1977.

However, Hart had very poor health these latter years and passed away February 3rd 1979.

I still live in our house here and Alf and family live in Edmonton so I get to see them quite often.

I have many good friends and neighbors and belong to First Baptist Church and our Womens' Mission Circle and Keenagers and also W.C.T.U. so I keep active. I am thankful for good health so far. I amuse myself by playing my autoharp, mandolin, and mouth organ, and of course I have radio and T.V. so I don't very often get lonely. And I'm often invited to play my instruments for different occasions.

I guess I have given you most of my history, so will close with best wishes to my relatives.

Sincerely

Millicent Hagen

HAROLD HAGEN

Harold is the oldest son of Hart and Millicent (Ing) Hagen. Harold married Mildred Huppie and they had seven children:

Geraldine and Myles Lavallee have a son Vernon and twins Troy and Terra born in 1985.

Jimmy is married and has 3 children.

Brenda is married and has 2 children.

Marilyn, Wanda, and Laurie are single.

Sandra, who was born when the marriage broke up, was adopted out. She lives in Mundare, and keeps in touch.

All these children except Sandra live at Lac La Biche.

Harold presently lives at Prince George, B.C., where he has a business hauling logs. He is separated from his second wife and just lives with his daughter Juanita, aged 12.

Interests: Camping, fishing, music. Harold sings and plays the guitar.

ALFRED AND EVA HAGEN

Alfred Carl Hagen was born on the l9th of June 1939. His parents are Hart and Millicent (Ing) Hagen. He grew up on the family farm near Bawlf.

Alf works as a boiler man on the oil rigs. Alf and Eva live in Edmonton, in the Beverley district. They have 2 boys, Eugene (aged about 17) and Leon (aged about 13).

Eva has 3 grown children, plus Phillip, who is still at home.

Interests: All enjoy fishing and camping

TED AND HETTY (ING) CHAPIN

My father, Mr. James Ing, arrived at Norbuck in 1931. He got job at Nelson's mill and worked all summer. In the fall he came back to the prairie and told us what a nice country it was here, so we decided to come up to Norbuck, too. You could get homesteads here at the time and my dad had applied for his before he came back.

My husband, Ted Chapin Sr., and my dad brought all the stock and the household belongings by train and landed at Norbuck. There was an old log house on one side of the canyon about three miles east of Norbuck and a barn where we could put our stock on the other side of the canyon. He inquired about the farm with the log house and found he could get it, but a cancellation had to go against it and it would be ninety days before we could legally locate on it.

We planned to move into the house as the man who owned it lived in the States and didn't want it anyway. In the meantime, another family (Lawrence Prentice's) moved in. We had no place to go but an old shack, about 10 feet by 12, on Mr. Duncan's farm. So, that winter my dad and mother, Ted, our two little girls and myself all lived in that little shack. We had a bed on each side of the table, and some shelves above the beds for the children and our suitcases etc. Our little girl Pearl called it our suitcase house. We had a cookstove, an air-tight heater and a barrel of water at the other end of the shack. I can remember I had four feet of space to work in. My mother had to sit on the bed most of the time and play with the children.

It was about one mile from the shack up to the barn where we had the stock, so we often said we had to kiss the men qood-bye when they went to the barn.

The next April, the cancellation came through and Ted filed on the homestead with the log house. We moved into that house and Prentices moved into the shack we had moved out of. Ted took a load of furniture both ways.

The big deep canyon was just down back of the house. I have often heard it referred to as the "Chapin Canyon". I am sure many of the old-timers will remember it as many were stuck in the mud going up the hill. Sometimes after a rain, we kept a team harnessed just in case someone needed a pull.

In the late fall of 1932, Ted went back to the prairie and brought his dad, George Chapin, to Norbuck. They drove all the way with two wagons and hayracks. They brought some horses and cattle and camped out on the way. It took them over a week to get home from Altario, our town near the Saskatchewan border. We sure were glad to see them.

We had one very bad time when the fires were so near. One Sunday the fire came just across the road. Then on Tuesday it swept down the canyon and our whole yard was on fire. We kept one man hauling water from a spring and pumped water on the old log house to save it. Fraser's and Burrow's sawmills sent cars up to get anyone who would go where it had burned over before, as it was safe there. We stayed as long a we could, but finally had to leave. We went over to O'Brien's across the road and later were surprised to see the house still standing. When it became dark it looked like a town: every stump in the yard was on fire. We went back to the house but didn't sleep much, as we were afraid the fire might start again.

Our two girls, Pearl and Joyce, were quite small when we came to Norbuck. The school was built soon after, and Pearl's first teacher was Mr. Stewart. Norbuck was our closest post office and store and it was three miles sway. I often carried groceries and Joyce, when she was a baby, all that way home.

We had many good times with concerts and dances in the Norbuck School. We also went to Knob Hill and Wenham Valley. We drove with horses and sleigh or wagon if there was no snow.

Mr. Duncan and Alex Hayes, both bachelors. were close neighbors. Mr. Duncan later had a store where we could get a few groceries. This is the farm that Walter Ing bought and lived on until fairly recently; they built a new house in Breton and live there now.

Roads began to get better and farming got easier as time went on. But hauling logs, sawdust and lumber were the main jobs men could get wages for. Our son, Ted Jr., was born while we were still on the farm. He was born in the Rimbey hospital and was one and a half years old when his dad joined the army and went overseas. George Chapin died just before Ted left. I was left to look after the family and do the farming, so had to hire some help.

Later the Norbuck School was closed down, as there weren't enough children to keep it open. I had to move to Breton to get the children to school. First we lived over the drugstore which was in Breton at the time. Then I bought a house from Frasers and had it hauled into town on the lot I had bought across the street from Scott's Blacksmith Shop. We lived there for several years till after the war ended and Ted came bsck. Then we moved to Edmonton and later to Calgary, where we lived for four years in the soldiers' P.M.Q.s. We returned to Edmonton, where I have lived ever since. Ted Sr. passed away in January 1960.

Ted Jr. bought the old Loomis farm one half mile north of Breton where he and Doreen and their son Dwayne now live, so I often go out there. Ted's daughters Cheryl and Debbie are married and live in the Breton area. I still feel Breton is my old home town. Our daughter, Pearl, married Floyd Stenseth and they live near Seba Beach by their daughter Linda's family. Larry and his wife, Lynn, are separated. They have a girl who stays with Linda and Peter. Joyce married Bill Anthony. Their children are David, Edward, Douglas, Mitchell, Donna and Ross.

I am a grandmother and a great grandmother. I own my own home here in Edmonton and have a lady companion who rooms here while she teaches music in a music school.

- Hetty Chapin

FLOYD AND PEARL (CHAPIN) STENSETH

Pearl was born at Altario, Alberta, in 1926. When Pearl was little, her parents Hetty and Ted Chapin Sr. moved to the Norbuck area near Breton. It was 1932 and there was homestead land available, which attracted the Chapins and their relatives to the area. The Chapin and James Ing families spent the winter of 1932-1933 in a tiny cabin about 10 feet by 12 feet.The following spring they moved onto their homestead.

Pearl attended the Norbuck School until it closed down, then attended high school in Breton. While living on the farm, the Chapin kids would travel to Norbuck School by dog sled. One time Grandma Ing said that she wanted to visit the family so badly that she would even ride on the dog sled to get there.

Pearl's parents moved to Edmonton after the war. In 1945 Pearl married Floyd Stenseth. Pearl and Floyd lived in Breton for about 2 years, then spent a summer in Hoadley, before moving onto her parent's farm. (The farm is across the canyon and across the road from the Ray Matthews farm.) Later they moved to Winfield for a couple years.

Then came the big move to Edmonton, where they lived for 27 years. In Edmonton Floyd started work with Macleods, then worked for Monarch lumber, and finally for Alberta Allcare where he worked until he retired 3 years so. Pearl worked for The Jasper Place Central Park Lodge for 13 1/2 years.

Pearl and Floyd have a daughter Linda (born in 1950) and a son Larry (born in 1952). Linda married Peter Hartum. They live with their family near Seba Beach. Larry and his wife Lynn are separated. Their little girl Lindsay is 7 years old. She lives with Pearl and Floyd, who now live at Seba Beach near Linda and her family.

Hobbies and interests:

Floyd enjoys building things

Pearl enjoys cooking and sewing

Both of them enjoy gardening, berry picking, and helping Lindsay with the chickens, rabbits and the 2 colts.

BILL AND JOYCE (CHAPIN) ANTHONY

Bill and Joyce lived in the areas of Breton, Alberta and Golden and Valemont in B.C. Bill's family were in the sawmill business, and the community of Antross was named after the Anthony and Ross sawmills located there. Joyce is a daughter of Ted sr. and Hetty Ing) Chapin. (Pearl Stenseth and Ted Chapin jr. are her sister and brother.) The Anthonys' children are: David (born in 1951), Edward (born in 1952), Douglas (born in 1953), Mitchell (born in 1955), Donna (born in 1957), and Ross (born in 1960).

About 1957, the family moved to Valemont, B. C., where Bill's parents were living. Bill worked as a millwright at the sawmill at first, then set up a machine shop called Valemont Saw Repairs. Originally the shop was for sharpening saws, then welding and machining. Even now, Dave, Edward and Doug are driving truck under the name of Valemont Saw Repairs.

At the present time Bill is living at Breton. Joyce is working as a nurse for Syncrude at Fort McMurray, Alberta.

DAVID ANTHONY

Dave was born on the l8th of September 1951. He and Barb had 4 children during their 6 years together:

Sandy (born 12 July 1965) enjoys hairdressing, and is living in Vernon, B.C.

Stephen (born 4 December 1967) enjoys autobody, painting cars, chasing girls, and truck driving for his uncle Mitch. He is staying with Mitch's family at Breton.

Colleen (born 11 November 1971) really likes animals and would like to become a veterinarian.

Karen (born 13 Sept 1974) She and Colleen live with their mom in B.C.

Dave married Denise, and in 1982 they had a daughter named Erin.

Dave married Judy and they have a daughter born about July 1984. He has also adopted Judy's son Michael. Dave lives at Valemont, where he drives highway transport trucks.

EDWARD ANTHONY

Edward was born in 1952. In 1972 he married Marilyn Hourie. They have two children, and live at Valemont.

Oriel (born 1 May 1973) enjoys singing, dancing and ATCs (all terrain cycles).

Wayne (born 11 November 1974) enjoys tormenting his sweet innocent sister. (This is last information was provided by Oriol, of course.)

DOUGLAS ANTHONY

Douglas Anthony was born in 1953, and is the third child of Bill and Joyce Anthony. He grew up in B.C., where his family were in the lumber and machine shop businesses.

Douglas and Nita have been together since about 1974. They have no family.

He is a machinist, metal fabricator, and truck driver, and lives at Valemont.

MITCHELL AND RUTH ANTHONY

I was born in Calgary in 1955. My parents, Bill and Joyce (Chapin) Anthony were in the sawmill business at Golden, B.C. at the time.

About 1957, the family moved to Valemont, B. C., where my Grandfather and Grandmother Anthony were living. Dad worked as a millwright at the sawmill at first, then set up a machine shop called Valemont Saw Repair:. Originally the shop was for sharpening saws, then welding and machining. Even now, my brothers Dave, Edward and Doug are driving truck under the name of Valemont Saw Repairs.

I came to Breton about 1970 and started helping my uncle Ted Chapin with his bread and milk wholesale business. We delivered Honeyboy bread and various brands of dairy products to grocery stores, etc. About 1976 I bought the business from Ted. I expanded it and sold it in 1983. I bought out Cliff Block' s transport business, which I still operate under the name of Block's Transport. I bought the farm 4 miles north of Breton in 1978. We have had cattle, ducks and chickens before, and we hope to have horses, cattle and chickens in the future.

On the l0th November 1979 I married Ruth Gracey. Ruth was a widow with two children, Simon (born 28 January 1971) and Elise (born 4 August 1974). The children use the Anthony name. Ruth and I also have two children, Mark Mitchell Anthony (born 21 May 1981) and Jonathan Lesley Anthony (born 17 September 1984).

Ruth had "Hawkeye", a young hawk she had nursed. One day some people from Environment Canada came in to test the drinking water. Ruth was afraid they would see the hawk and charge her with keeping a wild animal. She told Hawkeye to stay still. It worked so well that their visit was nearly over before they realized that he was a real hawk. Fortunately they didn't cause any problems. Hawkeye was just a baby hawk, but he was a real hit - especially when he landed on people's heads, as he liked to do!

Interests:

Generally speaking, we are naturalists.

Ruth enjoys music (guitar), oil painting, water colours, pastels, acrylics, (etc.), making greeting cards, nursing wild animals.

Mitch enjoys farm work, hunting, fishing, and sleeping.

Simon enjoys Cadets, playing fiddle, computers, electronics.

Elise enjoys art and playing the organ.

Mark enjoys computer games and just playing.

Jonathan enjoys dabbling in everything.

RICK AND DONNA (ANTHONY) LAVEILLE

I was born on June 7th 1957. My early memories include riding on trains and Christmas visits from Grandma Chapin.

In school I enjoyed basketball especially.

I have an inquisitive nature and I enjoy dabbling in many things - for example sewing, crocheting, embroidery, beadwork, clay, and accounting.

I have moved around quite a lot, and this is the third time I have lived in Breton.

Rick and I have 3 children, Melanie Nicole (born 25 April 1980), Jennifer Michelle (born 3 January 1983) and Amanda Suzanne (born 8 August 1985).

ROSS ANTHONY

Ross was born on the 8th of March 1960. He is a self-employed auto mechanic, specializing in automatic transmissions.

Ross is involved in many sports, including skiing, water skiing and swimming. He also enjoys reading and going to auto races. He is a bachelor and seems to be very popular with the girls.

TED AND DOREEN CHAPIN

Ted lived in Breton in the mid forties, and attended the Breton Elementary School. Good remembrances of Ted's young days in Breton include watching movies on the hard benches in the Nelson Hall and the Community Hall, Webster's Feed Mill, Scott's Blacksmith Shop, and riding on Mindy Anderson's dray. (The dray was a horse-drawn delivery wagon.)

Over the years Ted has worked at many jobs, usually as a salesman or driver or both. In 1955 he worked in a sawmill at North Field, B.C. From 1957 to 1962 he worked for National Organization Service selling magazine subscriptions and became one of their field managers. In 1963 he had lots of "irons in the fire": H T Fibercoating, Honeyboy Bread, Fold A Card, Cheque Protective Association, Simpson's Sears. 1964 continued with Bon Ton Bakery, Honeyboy Bread, Hallet Insurance (partnership), Jiffy Caterers, Cosmo Cleaners...

During these busy years Ted had become a husband and the father of a growing family. On the l2th November 1960 he married Doreen Iverson in the Anglican All Saints Cathedral in Edmonton. Their first daughter Cheryl was born on June l3th 1963 and Debbie was born on the l9th November 1965.

Their story continues...

He purchased the farm from Martin Oelkers and moved onto it in the fall of 1967. We started farming part-time, hobby-style, as Ted owned and operated the Honeyboy Bread business from 1966-77. Our nephew, Mitchell Anthony, has taken over the bread business since 1977.

The first year, Ted harvested the grain with a threshing machine and had Mr. W. Day, Mr. Robertson and Floyd Stenseth (Ted's brother-in-law) pitching bundles. Our little girls enjoyed sitting and watching the straw pile up in a large stack.

Dwayne was born the 23rd December 1968, completing the family.

In 1969 we started raising hogs on the farm. The first pig was called "Sow-sow". In 1970 we added turkeys and (for a short time) sheep. In 1974 we purchased the Breton Trailer court and an adjoining quarter section. In 1977 - 1978 Ted also served as a county counsellor in the County of Leduc. As the years have gone by, we've accumulated more land and built our farm into a self-sufficient business.

On the 28th March 1985 we opened our latest venture, Breton Mayfair Foods. Three of us work there full time: Ted, Doreen, and Debbie. Dwayne also works in the store on a part time basis.

On the 3rd November 1982, Cheryl married Allan Hoekstra. They have a daughter Elizabeth Louise Dorothy Hoekstra. Cheryl enjoys sewing and needlework, music, and teaching piano.

Debbie married Owen Murray just this summer (10 August 1985). Debbie is a vocalist and plays bass guitar. She has competed successfully in western music competitions (e.g. at Danny Hooper's.) She also sings and plays with various dance bands.

Dwayne enjoys fiddling. At age 13-14 he had a dance band "Keystone Country" that played for many of the local dances. He is now a champion fiddler with over 60 trophies and awards. Two years ago he produced a record album that included three of his own fiddle tunes. Dwayne has other interests as well: saxophone, hunting, fishing, cars, and taxidermy.

Ted's priorities are the basics: food, shelter and music. He enjoys music, television, farming, helping young people. He plays most instruments except the wood-winds, but especially plays the guitar. He enjoys sports, but says that it's not a priority.

Doreen enjoys quilting, hooking rugs, crocheting, embroidery, retiring (said jokingly), music (accordion and organ), gardening (when time permitted).

The family also looks after two annual events, the Fiddler's Jamboree on July lst and the Student Talent Show in January.

On the 9th November 1985 they celebrated their silver wedding anniversary with a banquet, program and dance. Hundreds of friends and relatives came to express their best wishes and help them celebrate.

THE HATHERLEYS

Fred Hatherley was a brother to Jane (Hatherley) Ing. He and his wife Carrie had two children, Will and Florence.

Florence lives at Ponoka, Alberta. She is very musical. She is a very good pianist.

Will and his wife Ruth had two children, Ruby and Marie. Will farmed for a short time in the Norbuck area. He got the farm from old Mr. Chapin, (Ted Chapin's grandfather). He built a log house on the property, which he sold to the Ray Matthews family. That building is still standing, I believe, although it is now used as a machine shop. Will worked as a trouble shooter for the telephone company for a while, then worked as an orderly at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton for many years. Since retiring, he has moved to Mirror, Alberta, where he presently lives. Will is an excellent fiddler.

Ruby is married and has a daughter and lives in Edmonton.

Marie married Charlie Young. They have a son Chuck Young. They work in the sheetmetal business and live at Surrev, B.C.

RICHARD ING FAMILY

Richard Samuel Ing was born in London, England on the 18 September, 1881. As he grew up, one of his friends was a young lady named Louisa Wright, or "Cissy" as she was called by her family and friends.

Jobs were scarce in London, creating poverty and hardship for many. As a teenager, Dick was hired by a man to sell matches for him. Dick was stopped by a police officer, who told him that if he couldn't get better work than that he should either emigrate or join the army.

Dick decided to emigrate to Canada. His brother Jim (James Alfred Ing) either emigrated with him or else had previously emigrated. According to Dick's obituary he came to Canada in 1895. He would have been only 14 years old, Jim would have been 22 or 23 at that time.

They settled in Ontario and homesteaded in the Rainy River district. Jim married Jane Hatherley in 1902. About 1909 or 1910 Dick and Jim were joined by the rest of the Thomas Ing family. In 1910 they came west and homesteaded at Kirriemuir, Alberta. Dick had been corresponding with Louisa Wright, and now asked her to come to Canada and become his wife.

Louisa Ellen Wright was born in London, England on the 12 December 1884. Her father, Samuel Wright was a Baptist and her mother, Charlotte Eley was Anglican (Church of England). Louisa followed the Anglican church. She knew the Thomas Ing family well. Dick was about three years older than she was. In later years they were often teased about being childhood sweethearts.

As a girl and as a young woman Louisa worked in the homes of some very wealthy families, where she got to see the rich and the titled nobility of England. She was not very impressed by most of them. Some of "society's darlings" turned out to be very petty and selfish people, especially in their treatment of the servants. Others were genuinely ladies and gentlemen by nature, not just by title. Louisa later was able to keep her children entertained for hours with stories of rich people and servants she had known. One favourite story was about a parrot that would imitate the milkman's call of "Milko, milko!", which sent the cooks on many a "wild goose chase".

Those were the days when Britannia ruled the waves, and the call of the sea stirred the English soul. Louisa was engaged to marry a young merchant sailor named Wally. On his last voyage before their wedding day he died. He was returning to his ship late at night with a group of others when the small boat capsized and he drowned. It must have been a terrible shock to Louisa, but life goes on. A painting of Wally's ship, the Montezuma, hung on Dick and Louisa's wall or many years. And throughout her life she enjoyed singing the old songs and hymns of England and the sea.

In 1913 she accepted Dick's proposal and came to Canada to be married. She bought a new suit for the wedding and shipped it to Canada. During her voyage to Canada, Louisa looked after a little girl, Dorothy, and in this way earned part of her fare. (The Salvation Army helped them both, and throughout her life Louisa has held a high regard for the Salvation Army.) They had to sit at a table that was close to some of the officers. They all thought highly of little Dorothy. One day she was skipping on the deck, and off went her shoe into the ocean.

On the train, after she got off the boat, they came to a place where the tracks were blocked by a rockfall. The crew worked for hours before the tracks were cleared. That was why it was midnight before the train arrived. Her trunk hadn't arrived yet, so she got married in the clothes she was travelling in. (The trunk arrived two weeks later.) So that is why Dick and Louisa were married at the minister's house at midnight.

Friends and well-wishers treated them to a "chivary", as was the custom at that time. This was a much more elaborate form of hazing than the tin cans, confetti, and white shoe polish that decorated many of our automobiles in a later generation. The following poem, composed by a friend for their 50th wedding anniversary, makes an amusing reference to this incident.

THE INGS

Half a hundred years ago the world was making history.
A world war was about to start, an unforgotten mystery.
Nations fought and thousands fell, Blood ran like flowing water.
Ships were sunk and hearts were broke, a terrible disaster.

But we're not here to bow our heads in sorrow and in sadness,
We're here to have a happy time of joy and smiles and gladness.
Why do we make this a special day, is it for praise or something?
Tomorrow will come and also go; it sets your mind to wondering:
Will people gather for us some day to 'lighten our bewildering
As we have gathered her today to be with Ma and Pa Ing?

That's why we're here 'cause on this day Dick and Louise were married,
I think, at midnite in 1913. Since then they've never tarried.
Those midnite weddings are rather scarce. How often are they secure?
If Macklin, Sask. could only talk, we'd hear of one for sure.

Moonlight is romance and love's abode by stars that shine in the sky,
So why not marry when the clock strikes twelve? It's only a man's 'Good-bye'.
They joined their hands at the minister's house, not many around at midnite.
Moonlight and roses, a woman and man, the four make a beautiful sight.
Alberta was green, so they headed out west, a homestead was strong in their mind.
Kirriemuir was their landing and they did their best, which is true when two hearts bind.

Dick's mother was with them for many years, and a joy to have her there.
It s treat to the heart when she's near, after all, there's none can compare.
Many districts they have seen, Leduc and Cooking Lake; there's one I'm not forgetting,
The town where I met them eight years ago, and I'm sorry they left, Breton.

A family of six to be blessed with - Myrtle, Marian and Walter,
Dorothy, Violet and Charlie, that's right, they've all been to the altar,
Marian met Albert when she worked for his folks. They courted and soon were wed.
One less to feed and buy clothes for was what Dick thought, but never really said.
Walter was a bushman some years long gone by, met Ann in the old lumber camp,
A lovely and charming daughter-in-law. Walt proved to be quite a scamp.

Dorothy decided that Ing was too short. Buchanan came into her life.
They figured that two could live cheaper than one, so she became George's wife.
Charlie met Mary in the town of Red Deer. Like the rest he sure struck it lucky -
A woman who'll stand by your side through it all, they live at Swan Hills where it's mucky.

Violet and Ray, foolish notion they took and went to the old preacher man.
'Do you take this woman to be your dear wife?' 'You're right my friend, and I can.'
Last, but not least there is Myrtle. Like the rest, she got a nice feller.
Not many know it, but now it comes out, they met in Dad's old root cellar.
The Indians had been gone for many years? Mrs. Ing at the chivary did wonder.
The noise was great and the shouting was loud. She figured there'd been a big blunder.

Dick didn't worry, he wasn't afraid, but his wife was so sure it was Redskins.
A terrible thought to be scalped on this night, to be taken from mattress and bedsprings.
Can we imagine a couple this young who never owned a car?
If we, as young folks could boast of this, I'm sure we'd have gone just as far.

Who in this crowd have handled an ox, much slower than a Lincoln.
Did you ever hear of oxen collide? Could be what Dick was thinking.
A lover of animals he must have been - Old Duke a horse so handy.
Dick's pride and joy was this farmer's friend, this Duke was old Dick's dandy.
Now, look here folks, all things have an ending, but a few more words I'l1 say.
We miss these folks since they have moved, even though they're not far away.

We hope that as the time goes by this couple will not wander
Out of our minds, forgetting then. For a while just sit and ponder.
When we grow old will people come and wish us a life of ease?
We hope they do, 'cause on this great day we honour Dick and Louise.
May this grand couple be with us in mind and thought and living,
Protected by God's All-mighty Hand, repentance and forgiving.

composed by Norris Lansdill, 1963

At Kirriemuir most of the homesteaders had sod houses, but Dick and Louisa had a wooden-frame house, so they thought they were pretty well-off. For the first time, Louisa got to meet Jim's wife, Jane. Jane was in the garden with her head down in the vegetables. "Whatever is Jane doing?", she asked Dick. "She's weeding the garden", he replied. "Well, I knew her sight was poor, but I hadn't realized it was that bad." Louisa considers Jane to be one of the most saintly people she has ever met, a person who could find the good in any person or situation, and never spoke evil of anyone.

From Kirriemuir they moved to Leduc, then Cooking Lake, where the children attended the Douglas School. In the winter they would slide down the banks of Half Moon Lake and onto the ice - on scoop shovels!

We came to the Breton district in the spring of 1934, settling on the S.W. 18-47-3-W5. Taxes were too high where we lived in the Ardrossan district near Cooking Lake, so Dad and Mother decided to try homesteading elsewhere. They had thought of going to the Easyford district near Rocky Rapids, where five neighboring families were moving. Dad went to Easyford to check out the situation. There was no school and the nearest store was far away. He decided to join his brother, Jim, who had already moved to the district near Norbuck.

We came in a covered wagon. This wasn't one of the prairie schooners you see in the movies. It was a wagon with a hayrack. The back half of the hayrack was covered by a tent that was supported on a wooden frame and had two-foot high wooden walls below the canvas. The rest of the hayrack was filled with household effects and hay for the horses. Because the roads were so bad, the horses couldn't pull it up the Sunnybrook hill. Mr. Stone came with a team and helped us up the hill. We stayed at his place and rested our horses so we could continue our journey.

We moved into a log house which was on the homestead. There was a small creek just below the house where mother put her milk and cream to keep them cold. We walked 3 1/4 miles along a logging road to the Antross school. This school was built with lumber donated by Anthony's and the Ross Lumber Co. Miss Hinds was teaching at this time.

Antross had a post office with Frank Reid as the Postmaster. For our groceries we went to Breton 9 miles away or to Duncan's at Norbuck. Walter later bought the Duncan farm and lived there for many years. Dad grew a large garden and sold some of the produce to the lumber camps. The wild berries were plentiful, which we picked and Mother canned.

Some of the early neighbors were John Biro, Jim Impey, Victor Hansen, and Jake Neutzling.

Fires were plentiful in the spring and one came so close that Dad had to backfire around the buildings. The furniture was loaded into a wagon, covered with a tarp and was pulled to the middle of a plowed field. The cattle were chased to Jim Impey's for safety.

There was no herd law in those days and I can remember going to find the cows for milking, not knowing which direction to go first, as the cattle would travel for miles.

In the winter of 1939-40 Walter and Charlie had a lumber camp with George Buchanan and Floyd Maine southwest of Breton for Anthony' s. Mamie Maine, Violet, and I were the cooks. The men built a cookhouse, a bunkhouse and a barn out of logs. The timber was cut with crosscut saws as there were no chain saws in those days.

Mother and Dad sold the farm and moved into Breton, where they lived for a few years. As they were both getting old and there was no hospital built in Breton yet, they sold out and moved to Wetaskiwin. They celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1963.

Their niece Hetty (Ing) Chapin composed this poem for their 50th anniversary:

FIFTY YEARS WED

It's fifty years since you were wed, and started out on the old homestead.
You raised your children till on their own, and now you two are left alone.
But through the years of good and bad, with joys and sorrows you have had,
Your love's withstood the times of strife, and you're still together as man and wife.

And as we see you together now, can't be that long since you made those vows.
As sweethearts yet, you always seem, and the fifty years are like a dream.
Just fifty years from your wedding day, you've aged a bit and your hair is turning gray.
But you're loved the more for the passing years, as you've shared with us your joys and fears.

Your Golden Wedding now is near, and you celebrate with those held dear.
Reviewing past years with family and friends, and more years to come till your life span ends.
So, as the years will roll along, remember this day with joys and song.
A perfect example of love you've set, fifty years wed and together yet.

- Hetty Chapin

All six of us children are still living. Marian Lidgett lives in Wetaskiwin, Walter and Ann Ing, Charlie Ing, and Dorothy Buchanan live in Breton, Ray and Violet Matthews live at Norbuck, and Evans and Myrtle Carson live at Clive.

Dad passed away in October 1967. Mother stayed in Wetaskiwin for a while and then moved back to Breton. When her eyesight and mobility decreased, she moved to the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Stony Plain. Celebrating "Grandma's birthday" with her at the Good Samaritan has been a tradition for several years. At the party for her 97th birthday we made a tape for the relatives in England. Besides best wishes from members of the family, we recorded Mother singing some of the old songs with Violet.

On December 1984 she celebrated her l00th birthday. In 1985, as a result of declining health, she was moved to the Wetaskiwin Auxiliary Hospital, where she now resides.

LOUISA ELLEN ING - l00th Birthday Party, December 1984
Good Samaritan Nursing Home, Stony Plain, Alberta

GUESTS SIGNING THE REGISTER
Charlie Ing Box 605, Breton
Stan & Brenda Matthews & Family Warburg
Ernie & Donna Lidgett 11619-75 Ave, Edmonton T6E OJ3
Rose Sehlin 730 Sequoia Place, Kamloops, B.C. V2C 5W2.
Bill & Judy Buchanan, Robby, Blaine, Laurel, Evelyn, Andrew, & James Box 2164 Barrhead, AB T0G OEO
Shirley Victor 18 Abbott Ave, Red Deer,
Dave Hames Red Deer
Darlene & Rhett Brink 10435-155 St, Edmonton
Gord & Patti Procknow, Rory & Jillian RR#i, Sicamous, B.C.
Dave Lidgett 11619-75 Ave, Edmonton
Evans & Myrtle Carson, Clive, Alta
Barry and Diane Pepper, Leduc, Alta
Rob Lidgett 11619-75 Ave, Edmonton
Ray & Sherrie Grapentine, Erin & Murray Wetaskiwin, AB
Marian Lidgett
Dwayne & Marilyn Carson 57 Nichols Cres., Red Deer
Dorothy Buchanan Breton, Alta
Virgil P1atz Breton, A1ta
Bernard & Judy Tetreau, Jason, Nicole, Brandon Edmonton, Alta.
Laurel Buchanan Box 2164, Barrhead
Evelyn Buchanan Box 2164, Barrhead
Erin Grapentine Wetaskiwin, Alberta
Harold & Susan Matthews and Aaron, Trudy, Elisha Winfield
Ted Lidgett - Edmonton

There were also some who didn't sign.

Besides the best wishes of those present, there were best wishes sent by the following people:

The Legislative Assembly of Alberta, signed by W. F. Purdy, as MLA for Stony Plain
A personal congratulations from W. F. Purdy
The people and government of Alberta, signed by Premier Peter Lougheed
The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, signed by F. Lynch-Staunton

Perhaps most precious of all to an old English heart, was a telegram from Queen Elizabeth II reading: "I am very pleased to hear that you are celebrating your hundredth birthday. I send you many congratulations on this happy occasion and my good wishes for an enjoyable day.
Elizabeth R. "

ALBERT AND MARIAN (ING) LIDGETT

I was the oldest of the six children of Richard and Louisa Ing. Times were very hard so I had to go to work at an early age (15). I worked at several places, then I went to work for Mrs. Lidgett on their farm. I was there for a while and married one of the sons. My husband, Albert went in the army early in the war, so I tried to keep the farm going, with his aged father. When Albert came home from the army we farmed for a few years, then sold the farm and moved to Wetaskiwin.

Albert's main employer was Holt Construction, where he worked for 18 years.

I am a widow now, mother of three (Rose, Ernie and Ted), grandmother of six and great-grandmother of six. I enjoy crafts, bowling, and catering for the Senior Citizen's Centre.

JIM AND ROSE (LIDGETT) SEHLIN

I was born Rose Myrtle Lidgett on September 23, 1933, the first grandchild of Dick and Louisa Ing, and the oldest child and only daughter of Albert and Marion (Ing) Lidgett.

Some of my earliest memories are of living on the farm and having to walk to school. The first couple winters the snow drifts were so deep on the roads that we walked through the bush and the adjoining fields. As I look back, it probably wasn't much better, as some of the fallen trees we had to climb over were as bad or worse than plowing through the snow drifts.

When I was in grade 8 or 9, I took over the job of the school janitor, which paid $5.00 per month. I had to be there early to get a fire started in the big old heater which kept the one room school warm. Sometimes it was quite a challenge and we had to stand around with our coats, hats, mitts and boots on until it warmed up. After school each day, I had to dust, tidy up and sweep the floors. I can still smell that green compound I sprinkled on the floor to help keep the dust down.

We lived 20 miles from Wetaskiwin. The first 2 miles wasn't much of a road and if it rained it was impassible. More than once I remember Mom and Dad had to walk those 2 miles and catch the Greyhound bus which ran daily to Wetaskiwin in the morning and back in the afternoon, so we'd have groceries for the following week.

One of my fondest memories was the time we went to Edmonton, which was a big trip back in those days. While we were there we went to visit Great-Grandma Ing, who was living in St. Joseph's Hospital. At the time she must have been close to 100 years old. I just couldn't believe anyone could be that old.

My first venture out on my own was in 1950. I moved to Wetaskiwin and got a job at McRae's Dry Gleaners for $30.00 a month. Out of that I paid $15.00 to rent a room with kitchen privileges. I stayed there until Mom and Dad moved into Wetaskiwin and then I moved in with them.

It was while I was working and living in Wetaskiwin that I met Jim Sehlin. He spent some time in the Canadian Armed Forces in Korea. When he returned to Canada in 1951 we were married at the Bethel Lutheran Church and had a nice family reception at the home of my parents. He was discharged from the army the next spring and he got a job working for the gas company.

Our three daughters were all born in Wetaskiwin. Sherrie Lynn was born May 16, 1952, Deborah Louise was born September 30, 1954 and Patricia Rose was born March 20, 1958. Those were busy years while the girls were growing up. I was kept busy washing, starching and ironing frilly dresses and shampooing and curling the girls' hair. Also teaching Sunday School and Vacation Bible School, and when they got older I was a Brownie Leader.

It was during those years that Grandma and Grandpa Ing moved to Wetaskiwin from Breton. None of us ever tired of visiting them and helping them whenever we could. We always enjoyed the stories of the olden days, especially the ones Grandma told us about coming to Canada from England.

She had heard stories about Canada being lonely and filled with wild Indians. When she got off the ship, she went the rest of the way by train. She said it was really slow because trees had fallen on the tracks and they had to be cleared off before the train could pass. The trip took two days longer than expected.

Grandpa was waiting for her all this time with the minister, who married them as soon as she arrived. She said that the outfit she had bought to be married in was packed in her trunk, but she didn't get the time to change her clothes. They then went to their homestead by horse and wagon. The first night, they had just gone to bed when she heard a noise outside. She told us she had never heard so much hollering and banging in all her life. She was scared out of her wits! She asked; "It's the Indians coming for us, isn't it Dick:?" He started to laugh, and told her it was the neighbors giving them a shivaree.

We all missed Grandpa, who passed away, and shortly after that Grandma moved back to Breton.

We moved to Kamloops, B.C. in 1971, where Jim is employed by Inland Natural Gas.

Sherrie married Ray Grapentine in 1973 and has two children: Erin Lynn born August 14 1974 and Murray Raymond James born August 24 1977.

Debbie married J. Dixon Connochie in 1974 and has two children: Amy Louise born February 4, 1976 and Tyler Dixon born July 17, 1978.

Patty married Gordon Procknow in 1979 and has two children:

Rory Stuart born August 7 1980 and Jillian Leah born March 19, 1983.

Our six grandchildren are the fifth living generation of the Ing Family at the present time.

ERNIE AND DONNA (WOLTERS) LIDGETT

I was born on March 17, 1936 in Wetaskiwin, Alberta. I was raised on a farm in the Brightview district, 25 miles west of Wetaskiwin and attended Ernest Park School. In 1951 my parents, Marion and Albert Lidgett sold their farm and moved to Wetaskiwin. After leaving school, I worked for Stan Reynolds. Later I was employed during the summer by Northwest Utilities and Ross Trucking during the winter.

In the spring of 1961, I met Donna Wolters - a combined x-ray and lab technician at the Wetaskiwin Hospital. We were married on July 14,1961. We have three sons; David, Daniel and Robert.

In August 1969, I was transferred with Northwest Utilities to Edmonton as a heavy duty operator. I haul pipe and equipment to job sites all over northern Alberta and northern B.C.

Our family travelled to Ontario in June 1975 to visit Donna's relatives in Hanover. We enjoyed a stay at Tobermory on Lake Huron and a visit to Niagara Falls.

In July 1981, Mom, Donna, Rob and I travelled to the eastern coast of Canada as far as Cape Breton Island. We enjoyed visiting historical places and learning more about our Canadian history. The fresh lobster was delicious! It was a trip to remember!

Ernie - enjoys travelling, camping, fishing, hunting and bowling.
- active member of Branch 150 Strathcona Legion.

Donna - enjoys travelling, camping, gardening and bowling.
- active member of Legion Ladies Auxiliary.

David - enjoys camping,fishing and hunting.
- active in a dart league.

Daniel- enjoys fishing and hunting.
- active in cricket club and dart league.
- does volunteer work for the Edmonton Police Dept.
- past member of Air Reserve and Search Rescue Squad.

Robert- enjoys camping, fishing, hunting and bowling
- does volunteer work for the Edmonton Police Dept.
- presently attending college in Correctional Services Program.

 

TEDDY LIDGETT

I was born on June 2, 1944 in Wetaskiwin, and named Edward Thomas, after my dad's brother who was lost in WW I. We lived on the farm until 1951, when we moved to Wetaskiwin. I took my schooling in Wetaskiwin and had a great time growing up there.

Many of my summers were spent on Uncle Walter and Auntie Anne's farm. It seemed like we (Uncle Walter, Donnie, Glennie, and I) were always haying, and we put up a lot of bales. Auntie Anne, such a good cook and practical joker. I remember once she put a big black rubber lizard in my bed. I found it but didn't say anything. However, I can still remember her yelling when she found it sticking out of a watermelon in the fridge. That was just one of the many jokes and good times that we all shared together.

I worked at the Wetaskiwin Times and later at the Co-op in Wetaskiwin, moving to Edmonton in l966 and getting a job at Scott National. I work: in the Sales Dept. and have worked most of the country sales territories in north central Alberta.

As far as hobbies go, I have just about always had an aquarium and fish, and still have one stocked with goldfish. I haven't travelled too much, but have been to Hawaii, Acapulco, Mexico City, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and would like to go to Europe some day.

WALTER AND ANNE (KATCHLUBA) ING

Walter Ing was born at Kirriemuir, Alberta on February 26th, 1916. Most of Walter's schooling was at Douglas School near South Cooking Lake. The family moved to Leduc, Alberta, where Myrtle was born. From Leduc we moved to Cooking Lake, then in 1933 Richard Ing with Walter and Charlie moved to the farm near Breton. Louisa and the girls followed in 1934. A tent was set-up on the hay rack with the walls built-up with wood. It took up about half of the hay rack, the rest being filled with personal belongings and hay to feed the horses.

Both Walter and Charlie worked for various places around the district, mostly in logging and lumbering. Walter met Anne Katchluba while working in a lumber camp for Hystad's. Anne and her sister Marie were cooking for 48 men on an old wood stove. The women had to have one dinner ready to send to the bush crew at 11:00, and another complete dinner ready for the camp crew at 12:00. They would rise at 3:00 a.m. to light the fires, bake bread, etc. Some days they baked 50 pies! ... All this for a wage of $48.00 per month.

Walter and Charlie were called into the army about 1940. Walter and Anne were married in 1942 in Edmonton. Donnie was born on the 8th of March 1943. Anne stayed with Walter's parents until Walter was transferred to Sydney, B.C., then she and Donnie joined him. (Walter had previously been stationed in widely scattered places including Alaska and Prince Rupert.) Myrtle stayed with them in Sydney for a while. According to gossip (from a usually well-informed source, naturally), they really enjoyed viewing the beautiful gardens and orchards land raiding them at night)!!!

Walter went overseas just before Christmas of 1943. He said he was so seasick on the way over that he didn't care whether the Germans torpedoed the ship or not! Walter got to meet most of the relatives in England while he was overseas. He was stationed in Holland and in Belgium. The day he was to be called-up to the front lines the war ended. He returned home in March 1945.

Walter and Anne bought the Duncan farm at Norbuck, which they farmed until they moved into Breton in 1979. The farm was a lot of work. Not much of the ground was broken, so Walter was sometimes up until midnight picking roots by the light of a gasoline lantern.

Dennis was born May 21st,1951 and died very suddenly of pneumonia in the Wetaskiwin hospital just 13 months later.

Glennis was born June 4th, 1953, just missing the birthday of Teddy Lidgett, who was staying with them for a few days at the time.

In the early 1960s they built a new house on the farm. It replaced the old house, which consisted of one building (the living room) with 3 additions, (a kitchen and 2 bedrooms). The floor of the living room was about 2 feet higher than the floors of the other rooms, and children loved to sit on the steps when they came for a visit. They were good company and the cookie jar was always full of the tastiest cookies and tarts.

Glennie was a handsome boy who was an avid sportsman and loved playing the guitar. He died several days after being hit by a truck in Edmonton in 1970. This tragedy was a very heavy burden for the family. Later in 1970, John Fraser, an 11 year old Metis boy, came to live with the family as a foster child. He stayed for 5 years, and was like a member of the family. Since going on his own, John hasn't done very well. He still keeps in touch with the family by writing occasionally.

About 1976 Walter and Anne sold the farm, and about 2 years later they moved into Breton, where Walter had built a new house. In recent years both Walter and Anne have had health problems, but they really enjoy a visit with family and friends.

DONNIE ING

Donnie Ing was born in Edmonton on March 8th, 1943, in the middle of World War II. Because of a medical problem, Donnie was unable to walk until he was three years old. He would sit on the linoleum floors, and slide himself along with his hands, almost as if he was riding an invisible wheelchair. He could move very quickly. Happily those days passed, and Donnie was able to walk, although with a slight limp.

Donnie really believed in Santa Claus, when he was little. One Christmas he insisted that Anne leave a treat for Santa. After Donnie had gone to bed, she decided that Donnie would be disappointed if morning came and "Santa" hadn't eaten his treat. So she started eating it, and got caught red-handed by Donnie, who had gotten out of bed. She had some pretty fast explaining to do! Anne's sister Pauline got a real kick out of DonnieÕs attachment to Santa Claus. Once she shook some sleigh bells outside the window, so Donnie would be sure that Santa had come. Donnie was somewhat doubtful the next morning when he couldn't find any reindeer tracks. He believed in Santa Claus, but he wasn't stupid.

Donnie is very soft hearted. Since he was little, he would cry at sad songs. When Walter was chopping the heads off some chickens, little Donnie was sobbing "Don't cry Chickies. Daddy bad boy!" The years have passed very quickly. Donnie is now a grown man, but he still has a tender heart. He enjoys watching his satellite TV receiver, snowmobiling, and visiting with family and friends.

CHARLIE ING

I was born at Kirriemuir, Alberta. When we moved to Cooking Lake we attended the Douglas School. It was only 1/4 mile from home, so at noon we would all dash home for lunch. In February of 1933 Dad, Walter and I came to the farm near Breton on foot, driving the cows ahead of us from South Cooking Lake. The trip took 7 days and seven nights. We used a wagon that converted to a sleigh. The weather was so mild that we had to stop near Calmar to remove the sleigh runners and put on the wheels. Dad and Walter had put up some hay and a garden the year before. The vegetables were just buried in a pit for storage. When we got there they were beautifully fresh.

There was a little old building we could move into. We then had to build a barn and a chicken coop. Very little land was cleared when we arrived. We cleared it by hand and broke most of it with horses.

Walter and I worked in the sawmill at Antross for Anthony's. About 1940 I joined the army. I served at various bases, including Camrose (basic training), Calgary (advanced training), Nanaimo (where I was assigned to the lst Battalion Irish Fusiliers, Vancouver Regiment), Vancouver, Dundern (Saskatchewan), Vernon (B.C.), Kingston (Jamaica) for 18 months, Dundern (Sask.) again in the fall, and Sussex (N.B.). In Sussex we saw a lot of badly wounded veterans. By this time I qualified for a discharge and returned home to civilian life.

I worked again for Anthony's before they closed down the mill and the village of Antross was dismantled. Then I went to work for the Pearson Brothers mill in Breton. In 1952 I got into the oil patch, working on trucks in Leduc, then Camrose, Red Deer, Lacombe, etc., where ever they sent me. I worked at Fox Creek, Swan Hills, Whitecourt, and Valleyview on pipeline, construction and maintenance.

I met Mary Boudreau while working in Red Deer. We were married 16 November, 1956 in Red Deer, and from Lacombe to Whitecourt we were together.

June l0th 1965 we adopted Karen Susan Ward, who came to us as a 6 month old baby in July 1960. She was the daughter of Mary's brother Ed Ward. (She knows whose daughter she is, but she calls him Ed and she calls me Dad.) Karen Ing married Richard Burtis, but the marriage didn't work out. About a year and a half later they were divorced. On April 5th 1985 Karen married Darcy Dobley. They are living in Lacombe, Alberta.

Mary left in 1971 and our divorce was finalized in 1973, just a few blocks from the place we were married. In 1973 I went to work for Miller Western Lumber Company in Whitecourt. It was really a good place to work at the time. I retired and moved to Breton in July 1983. I enjoy gardening and satellite TV, but I especially enjoy fishing.

GEORGE AND DOROTHY (ING) BUCHANAN

I was born May 5,1920 at Kirriemuir, Alta., the fourth child of Richard and Louisa Ing. I can remember a few things from living at Kirriemuir, like going to Uncle Jim's and Auntie Jane's, and when we came home finding our dog dead, killed by a badger. The hill behind the house seemed so high then. Seeing it again since I grew up, its nothing but a knoll.

From Kirriemuir we moved to Nisku, where my youngest sister Myrtle was born. The railroad tracks came close to the house and the engineer used to throw out comic papers for us. We didn't live there very long, then moved to South Cooking Lake.

The first place we lived there was about a mile from the lake. There were people by the name of Burnside living there so it was known as the Burnside place. One incident I remember was when my sisters and I were playing house. We used a clothesline stand as our house and I was on top leaning over talking to the others and fell head first on a rock, cutting my head. I still carry the scar.

We had an icehouse and Dad and my brothers would cut ice on the lake. We'd put it in the icehouse, covering it with sawdust. We would have ice most the summer and a dandy place to put your milk and cream.

I cannot remember how long we lived there, but we moved to another place, a couple miles north. The school was on the corner of the quarter so we didn't have far to go to school. That is where Violet and I started school, at Douglas School. I took all but my last year (grade 8) there.

I can remember the Christmas Concerts:

How elated we were getting dressed to go to the Concert; arriving at the school with the windows all brightly lit up (with Coleman gasoline lights). Once inside there was the tree with the trimmings, shining and beautiful. After the concert Santa Claus gave all the children a net bag full of candy, nuts, an orange, and an apple. Some of the mothers got together and sewed up the bags and filled them with the goodies.

There was a nice three bedroom house, a big house for those days. Dad and mother had horses and cows. They milked the cows and shipped cream besides making butter to use.

Mother also had chickens and turkeys. I remember an old gobbler that used to chase her. He came after her one day when she was carrying water from the well. She threw her pail of cold water on him. It sure cured him from chasing her.

Walter and Charlie had pigeons. They built a loft on top of the barn for the pigeons. They were all colours. The first couple pairs had names, but after that there were too many to name. Walter also raised rabbits, which he sold in Edmonton.

Dad cut his grain with a binder and stored it. Later in the fall he would stack it. He put the stacks just far enough apart so the threshing machine could go between them and you could throw the bundles from both side into the separator. There was a knack to building these stacks. You had to make sure the heads of the grain were pointed inwards and the straw to the outside, then if it stormed the grain was always dry.

There were a lot of wild strawberries and mother would can as much as 60 quarts.

Crops were not so good, so Dad decided to try homesteading. My uncle Jim Ing had already taken up a homestead between Winfield and Breton. Some good friends tried to get us to move to Rocky Rapids, where four other neighbouring families were moving. Dad checked out the area, but he found the Breton area more promising. So he took a quarter section a couple of miles north of my uncle's place. Dad, Walter and Charlie moved out ahead and took the cattle and machinery. The rest of us came out the next spring. Dad fixed a place on the hayrack where we could sleep and eat, and the front of the rack had furniture and hay. It took us quite a few days, as we could only travel a short way each day because one of the horses was lame. We got to Sunnybrook hill, which was muddy, and the horses couldn't pull the wagon up it. Mr. Stone came and helped us and took us to his place, where we stayed until the horses were rested enough to take us to the homestead.

I finished my last year of schooling at the Antross School. I went out to work for Andrew Olson, south of Lone Ridge Hall. I worked there three and a half years for $8.00 a month. Mrs. Olson had arthritis and couldn't do much, so I had all the housework, cooking, and helping with the chores. I was young and didn't mind it.

At the end of three and a half years I came home and worked a couple winters in logging camps and did odd jobs until I got married.

George Buchanan was born near Neepawa, Manitoba on May lst,1906. I first met him when he moved southeast of Breton on the John Biro farm with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Maine in 1939.

At this time George worked at Anthony's at Antross and in the lumber camps in the winter. We were married in Winfield, Alberta in February 1941.

That summer, George worked in Nystrom's camp southwest of Carnwood. After he built a shack, I went out with him. The Nystrom brothers went home for harvesting in the fall and we stayed to look after the horses. Prairie chickens and partridges were plentiful and we ate our share.

In the late fall we bought a lot in Breton where John Reputakowski now lives, and moved a shack onto it. In February 1942 our first son Bill was born. We lived in town until April 1943, when we bought the Charlie Broton quarter SW1-48-4-W5M. We moved the shack from town and built on a bedroom. George's dad, William Andrew Buchanan, sold his blacksmith shop 10 miles west of Millet, so he and George's brother Jack, from Coleman, came to live with us. We cleaned up the little shack Mr. Broton had lived in to have a place.for them to sleep. The men started building a house in the summer and finished it in the fall. In October 1943 our second son, Reginald, was born.

We bought another farm, the McNeil place SW1-48-5-W5M. We moved there, as Jack married Tina Pacholka in December. Mr. McNeil had kept the building neat. He had whitewashed the outside of the log house and the chicken house. Part of the house was slab and plaster over the logs inside. It had quite big windows for a log house; also it had a brick chimney which I was very glad of, as I am afraid of fires and was left by myself with the children in winter while George worked away from home. George built a fence of slabs to keep the children in, because the two Moose Creeks ran one on each side of us.

Our third son, Lloyd, was born in March 1945; then Edward in March 1950. About this time, we had a new immigrant family, Walter, Anastasia and Mary Haluszka live in our house for the winter in return for looking after the animals. When we moved back in the spring, we moved in a small shack for the Haluszka's and gave them a calf, contributing to their start in the new world.

When Bill started school, he stayed in town with Mr. and Mrs. Alf Benson. The next year, Roy Prentice drove the school bus (a Willys jeep) and our second son, Reg, started school. Sometimes the "roads" were so bad that even Prentice's jeep couldn't make it through without considerable help. The boys had to walk 2 miles to Kubejko's west corner to catch the bus. They left home at 7:30 in the morning, and I would worry that they would miss the bus or freeze going to it. They returned home about 5 in the afternoon, a long day for a couple of small boys.

Jack and Tina decided to move to Edmonton, so we decided to move to their place, as the bus would pick them up there.

We had a house in Breton across from Cleve Carson where we lived in the winter, as George worked away from home all winter. In the summer we went back to the farm. We later sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Waunch. George started working as a pipefitter in the oilfield at Camrose, so we all moved there for the summer and fall. Before winter we all moved back to Breton. Our only daughter, Judy, was born in December 1952.

In August 1954 we moved to Edgewater, B.C. where George worked in the planer mill and in later years, in Kootenay National Park. We moved back to Breton in July 1969 as Jack was very ill. We lived with Jack, but his house was too small so we bought the Roos house close to the high school.

The family have all left home. Bill married Judy Kinney and they have six children. He works at the Alberta Correspondence School and they live near Alberta Beach, Alberta. Reg married Carol Serridge and they have three children. He is a computer operator and they live in Fernie, B.C. Lloyd lives in Spruce Grove, Alberta, and he is the head caretaker at Woodhaven School. Edward spent several years in the Air Force, before leaving to do aircraft maintenance and repairs for chartered airlines in Alberta and B.C. He now lives in Winfield, B.C. Judy married Bernie Tetreau. They have three children and live in Edmonton.

George's dad, William Andrew, passed sway in May 1948, Tina April 1967, and Jack April 1974. George was very sick for over a year. He passed away September 1975. I live alone in my home. my family visits me whenever they can, and I am very thankful for all my friends.

- Dorothy Buchanan

BILL AND JUDY (KINNEY) BUCHANAN

I was born 6 February 1942, the oldest son of George and Dorothy Ing) Buchanan. Like others who grew up in the Breton area in the late 1940s and early 1950s, I lived through the end of the horse-and-buggy era. The earliest home I remember was an old log house about 7 miles west of Breton, where we farmed.

Dad did pipefitting in the Camrose area of the oil patch in 1952-1954. We lived in Camrose for a year, then went back to the farm. In 1954 we moved to Edgewater B.C., where Dad work:ed in the planer for Edgewater Sawmills, for many years. I was a Boy Scout in an area perfectly suited to camping and exploring. During the summer holidays I worked at the sawmill and the planer. After graduation I moved to Calgary to continue my education.

In 1962 I became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. From August 1964 to February 1967 I served as a missionary in France and Switzerland. I still consider these years to be a spiritual high-light in my life, and I hope that the Lord will give my children similar opportunities.

When I returned to Calgary, I immediately found work at Teledyne Data Processing. A short time later, a girl I was dating got a new room-mate, and so I met Judy Kinney. Judy was from Raymond, Alberta. She had just completed a business degree at Brigham Young University, and came to Calgary looking for work. I began dating Judy, and we got along fantastically well. In March 1968 we were married in Raymond, and moved into a basement suite in Calgary that was our first home together.

Judy and my brother Reg suggested that I go back to college, so I gave it a try in the summer of l968. The results were good, so I went back full-time. On October 11, 1969 Robby was born. Judy quit her job with Coca-Cola Ltd. and things were very tight financially. I graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Education in 1970.

I was hired to teach at Brooks Junior High School. It was nearly impossible to rent a house in Brooks, so we bought an older mobile home. Blaine was born 9 March 1971. Summer saw us moving to Grand Cache, where I taught for another year. I was experiencing discipline problems in my classes, which put me under a lot of strain. This problem was solved when I was hired by the Alberta Correspondence School. It's a great place to work, but it meant moving again.

We moved our mobile home (a different one) to Spruce Grove. Laurel was born 29 November 1972. A year later we moved onto 9 acres of raw land we purchased near Alberta Beach. About a year after that, my brother Lloyd bought a mobile home and also moved onto our place.

Evelyn was born 8 July 1975. In September of 1975 I was visiting my father, at the hospital. As I was leaving, I said. "Good bye, Dad. I'll see you tomorrow." He replied "I hope so Bill, but I really don't know." He had recovered before, and I hoped his condition would get better again. That night, Mom called to tell me that he had died.

In early spring of 1977 we decided to build a house on our acreage. We looked at the various housing alternatives. Then we bought a stock: blueprint and some lumber. With Lloyd's help, we built the house ourselves, except for the concrete and plastering. The result was an attractive bedroom home with a 4th bedroom in the basement.

Andrew was born 14 October 1980 and James was born 12 July 1982. The older children really enjoyed their role as "big brother" and "big sister". In 1981 Lloyd bought a big new mobile home, and in 1982 he moved it into Spruce Grove. We too, have been thinking of moving (to Barrhead) to be closer to work.

Our individual interests are somewhat varied:

I like reading, genealogy and do-it-yourself projects. I am also involved in various local committees of the Alberta Teachers Association.

Judy especially enjoys sewing and reading.

Robby likes to read and to play soccer, hockey, and Dungeons and Dragons.

Blaine enjoys skating, drawing, and motorized vehicles.

Laurel like.s music, most sports, jumping rope, and visiting people.

Evelyn enjoys writing stories, reading, drawing, and Barbie dolls.

Andrew likes toy cars (especially motorized ones), and playing dolls with his big sisters.

James likes pictures (especially in the family albums), toy cars, and having people read stories to him.

We enjoy camping as a family, and we have also been very active in the Boy Scout and Guiding movement. Robby received his Chief Scout award from Lt. Governor Frank Lynch-Stanton in May 1984. Blaine attended the national Jamboree (CJ-B5) in 1985 in Guelph, Ontario.

We have been computer hobbyists since 1982. and I have won a Commodore-64. an Apple ][+. and an IBM PCjr for educational programs I wrote.

Outside of home, school and work, the main focus of our lives is the church. It offers us the opportunities for worship, service and personal growth that we all need. Our fondest hope is that our - children will some day establish Christian homes of their own.

REG AND CAROL (SERRIDGE) BUCHANAN

Reginald Buchanan was born in L.A. (Leduc, Alberta) on October i3th, 1943. In grade 1 Reg had to walk over 2 miles each way to catch the bus. In winter we left home in the dark and returned home when it was nearly dark again. We lived in an old log house on the farm 6 miles west of Breton. In winter we found frost behind anything touching the wall, including the blankets on the bed. Sometimes they would freeze to the wall.

The school bus was an old Willys Jeep 4-wheel-drive and some days even it couldn't make it through. Sometimes while walking to school we had to detour through a fence to avoid a neighbor's bull on the roadway.

In 1954 Dad received a job offer from B.C. Suddenly we were moving to Edgewater, B.C., with Dad's 1928 Ford car and a friend's half-ton truck carrying all our belongings.

Reg was interested in cars from a very young age. (When John Hansen first got his rubber-tired wagon, he was proudly showing it to Dad. Little Reg looked at it carefully, saying "You can take it apart here, and here, and here ...") By age 16 he was repairing engines, transmissions, and differentials. During the summer he drove trucks and forklifts for the sawmill.

Reg worked in Edmonton for 2 years, then moved back to Edgewater, where he worked on road construction for C.P. Rail.

About 1964 he moved to Calgary, and worked for a couple of places before starting work for Teledyne Data Processing, where Bill was working.

Reg met Carol when he was Best Man for Tony Turner, a friend from work. Carol was Maid of Honor at the wedding. About 2 weeks later she received a telephone call inviting her to help Reg clean the confetti out of his car. Carol was taking Chemical Technology at University of Calgary and Reg was taking an evening class at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Like many student couples, their dates often included eating out at McDonalds. (Incidentally, this was the original McDonalds in N.W. Calgary, reputedly the first in Canada.)

Reg and Carol were married in Calgary, and their first two children were born there. Kimberley was born in 1974, while they were living in a mobile home they bought. She was awake about 20 hours a day, and 11 years later she still needs very little sleep. Kim talked at a very young age.

Richard was born in 1975. He climbed everything, absolutely EVERYTHING.

Over the years at Teledyne Reg had worked his way up to Computer Operator, and he was looking for new opportunities. In 1976 Reg was hired by Kaiser Resources, who moved him to Fernie, B.C. The family lived in the trailer in Fernie for over a year, then purchased a new house. Justin was born on the 8th of November 1979.

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS:

The children started skiing in 1981.

Reg - Dirt biking, skiing (formerly), learning electronics. Reg's free time is somewhat limited because he commutes 85 km each way to work: at Green Hills, where he is a Computer Systems Administrator.

Carol is a Girl Guide leader, is learning to play the organ, and is active in T.O.P.S.

Kim - figure skating, collecting Cabbage Patch dolls, interested in skunks, climbing trees, and Guides.

Richard - snowmobiling, dirt biking:, puppies, computers, Cubs, and playing the organ.

Justin - snowmobiling, sledding, bicycles, motorcycles, trucks.

 

LLOYD BUCHANAN

I was born in Edmonton Alta. on March 19, 1945. Of my early life on the farm I remember very little - just things like animals we had. The horse, cow, geese and chickens.

The thing I remember most was when I stayed with John Hansen on his farm. he had many interesting things, such as a wall full of guns, and lots of harness around. But he always had nice horses. (Note: these were work horses rather than saddle horses.)

John always scared us kids with talk of getting Mom a spanking machine. One time he came to our place with a blacksnake whip, and chased me around the house snapping it behind me, as I was running full steam ahead yelling "DON'T DON - DON'T DON!".

I scared John pretty bad one time, I was about 3 or 4 at the time. I stayed overnight and found the loaded 45 Colt that John kept under his pillow. The next day he threw it down the well.

In the time we spent at Wallberg's, three things stand out more than the rest. One was running back and forth between the camp and the sawmill, wearing my green parka which gave the lumber camp it's name, THE GREEN SQUIRREL lumber camp. I later used the name Green Squirrel as a C.B. [citizen's band] radio handle. I also remember going into the bunkhouse and smoking a pipe one of the men had. The winter was so cold the only way to get the car to start was to heat up the oil pan with a can of oily rags on fire. The snow was so deep the car plowed snow with its bumper.

When I started school I had to walk 1 mile to the bus in the morning and 1 mile back at night. We moved between Breton and the farm many times. It was during one of these moves that my black friend Ronald Smith and I followed Dad to the farm. We thought he would come back that night and we would meet him. It turned out he didn't, so when we got to the farm he wasn't there and we started back to town. By this time it was getting dark, and Mom and Mrs. Smith had the police out looking for us, and they found us 6 miles from town.

When we lived in Camrose the only notable thing to happen to me is that I broke one of my front teeth while climbing up on the stove.

In August 1954 we moved to Edgewater B.C. This was a really nice place to live. I did a lot of fishing in the Columbia River with my friends and an old-timer, Cliff, who kidded me a lot. He would sit for hours and just get a nibble, he was a REAL fisherman. I did a lot of skiing on some steep hills in the winter. Also, swimming in the hot pool at Radium Hot Springs at -20 F. was interesting to say the least.

In the summer we would swim in the lake and ride our bikes to Radium in the evening to watch the show at the drive-in, and ride home afterwards. A total of 14 miles. I was also very active in the Cubs and Scouts. I enjoyed the hikes and camp outs at Sheep Mountain at Easter holidays. The thing I remember most about them were the wood ticks. Everywhere you looked there were wood ticks: in your clothes, sleeping bag, and especially crawling over you when you were trying to go to sleep. I worked at the planer mill 2 summers piling slats, also for 2 seasons piling rows of Christmas trees, and one fall loading bales of trees in boxcars. In 1965 I got my first nice car, it was a red and white 1956 Mercury two door hardtop.

I learned to play the drums when I lived in Edgewater, and played in several bands in the area. The bands were CHIC AND THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN and THE MELODY MAKERS. I played for $10.00 for a four hour evening, and I would pay $6.00 back to the band leader for rental of his drums. This practice stopped when I bought my own drums. I then received the full $10.00 and later made $20.00 per night with another band.

In 1967 I moved to Edmonton to get a janitor job cleaning a WOOLCO store. I got the job through Wallace Zwiers. After working for about 6 months I became the foreman. After about 8 months I went to work for VALO janitor services at the industrial airport. Then I started working from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM six days per week, and it seemed like I cleaned half of the buildings in Edmonton at one time or another. While living in Edmonton I bought two nice cars. The first one was a 1968+1/2 Mustang California Special, and the other was a 1968 Shelby Cobra G.T. Also I bought a motorcycle (chopper). I also worked for Oxford property services.

In 1973 after a perforated ulcer I bought a small mobile home and moved it to my brother Bill's place at Forest West near Albert Beach. I drove back and forth between Forest West and Edmonton each day for four years, then in 1977 I started working at WOODHAVEN School in Spruce Grove.

The time I spent living at Forest West was interesting to say the least. I became involved in C.B. radios before it became a real fad. I helped to start a CB club called the SLEEPY HILLBILLYS club. I was director for 3 years and V.P. for 2 years and president for 1 year. During this time I installed many C8 sets and antennas, including beam antennas on 65 foot towers, and fibreglass antennas in 60 to 100 foot trees. My brother Bill and I put up a 65 foot tower in 8 foot sections. We would climb to the top of the tower and pull the next section up, then bolt it into place, then repeat the process with the next section until we were finished.

In 1982 I bought a Radio Shack Color Computer and started learning about computers. Now I have a cassette recorder, printer, disk drive, and my Color Computer has seen many modifications.

In 1982 l also bought a 14x56 mobile home, and in 1983 I moved it to Spruce Grove, so I'm only 2 minutes from work. In October 1983 I became the head caretaker at Woodhaven Jr. High School, and I help at setting up the school computer systems.

On weekends I often visit Mom and my relatives and friends in Breton. In the summer I enjoy off road motorcycling in southern B.C. with my brother Reg. I have a YAMAHA TT 250. Also, in the winter I go snowmobiling each chance I get, usually with my cousin Donnie Ing. We often go down on the creeks or bush trails. My snowmobile is a KAWASAKI 440, it's a very fast one.

73's Green Squirrel 88's

ED BUCHANAN

Born 29 March 1950 in Edmonton Alberta Hobbies: Fishing, hiking, and dirtbiking

I guess my first real memories start when the family moved from Breton, Alberta to Edgewater, B.C.

I was about 6 years old when I caught my first fish. It was in the spring, just after the ice went out on the Columbia river and it seemed like half the town was there. A guy named Rod Dendy needed to attend nature's call and asked me to hold his fishing rod. About a minute later I caught Rocky Mountain whitefish. I beamed for days. About 2 years later I caught my first trout. It was a cutthroat about 16" long. I was so excited that I headed straight for home with it clutched between my hands. When I got home I put it in the pantry and to keep for supper and went out to tell my friends about my catch. When I came home I went to get my fish for supper but the cat had eaten it. I must have cried for hours.

Edgewater being the small town it is, you had to create your own entertainment. One of these was the stiff-leg syndrome. What us kids would do is sneak a 22 rifle out of town stuffed down our pant legs and the butt tucked under our arm covered by our coats.

Another was my first real experience with alcohol, which I will never forget. Mickey Ferguson, Allan Jones and myself hid in a big old fir tree one Saturday night during a dance at the community hall because a friend told us people were stashing their booze along the side of the hall next to the tree. Sure enough, about 9:30 pm two guys came around the corner with a gallon jug of wine and a 6-pack of beer. When they left we picked it up and ran down the back alley to the sawdust pile down by the sawmill. We hid the wine and drank the beer while we planned our next day's adventure. The next morning with our plan in place, we grabbed our fishing rods and headed for the river, stopping to pick up the jug on the way. When we got there we fished for 5 whole minutes, but when the jug was uncapped and the drinking began the fishing soon came to a halt. It only took the three of us about an hour to finish off the whole jug. I got so sick I didn't go to school until Tuesday afternoon. It took 10 years until I could even stand the smell of wine!

From the age of 7 until about 16 I spent most of my summer holidays at Buck Creek and Alder Flats, Alberta with an old f amily friend by the name of John Hansen. John was bachelor who had a great love for the outdoors and living a simple way of life. John preferred horses to motor vehicles and in all his life he only had one, that being a motorcycle. When I was about 12 years old, John gave me my first rifle, a 32 Winchester Special. I still own this rifle but I use it very seldom. I treasure it dearly and will never part with it. John passed away in 1984 and will be missed by all who ever knew him.

I finished school in June 1969 and moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where I worked in an autobody shop and for Otis Elevators. Neither of these jobs stirred my interest, so I decided to join the Airforce.

I joined the Canadian Forces on 6 Feb 1969. I went through basic training at Cornwallis, N.S from 1 March 1969 to 14 May 1969. Anyone who's been through this kind of training will know what I mean when I say it's the closest thing to hell on earth. To make things worse, in N.S. at this time of year there is a constant mist in the air which freezes to your clothes making you into a human popsicle.

After finishing basic training I was posted to Camp Borden, Ont. for trades training. Due to overloading of personnel I was assigned to a holding unit for 5 months, employed doing odd jobs. On the 1 Oct. 1969 I started my training as an aircraft sheetmetal worker and graduated on the 19 March 1970.

On the 20 March 1970 I arrived at my first real posting, which at C.F.B. Trenton, Ont. It was here that I met and worked for a Cpl. by the name of Paul Pelletier. Paul was a super sheetmetal man and with his guidance and my keen interest I soon excelled. I completed my 4 year apprenticeship in 3 years and was promoted to Cpl. on 6 Feb 1973. While in Trenton I made some very good friends, many of which I still keep in touch with on a regular basis.

On the 19 May 1975 I was transferred to 4RSU-440 Squadron in Edmonton Alberta. On the 8 Sept 1976 I was promoted to Master Cpl. At the time I was the youngest ever M/Cpl. in the Metal Tech. trade. While I was in Edmonton I was involved in 2 Air Reserve summer camps, one in Yellowknife, N. W. T. and the other at Inuvik, N. W. T.

On the 19 Aug 1977 I was transferred to C.F.B. Cold Lake, Alberta. And COLD it was! In Cold Lake my position was crew chief on CF-104 Starfighters and CF-5 Freedom Fighters. I enjoyed this position very much, but after 3 years I decided to resign from the armed forces and try my skill in the civil aviation industry. On the 4 July 1980 I wore my uniform for the last time.

After leaving the service I moved to Calgary, Alberta, where I worked at Field Aviation and Kimba Air Services.

While at these companies I was involved in 2 aircraft salvages and an out of town repair. In June 1981 I went to Zhella, Libya, where the temperature was 50 degrees Celsius. Two months later I was in Sugluc, Ouebec, where the temperature was in the negative range. In Dec I was in Resolute Bay, N.W.T. to repair another aircraft damaged by hitting a snow drift. The repair work was all done outside in the open at -38 degrees C. and a 15 kph wind. Boy was that a mixed up year!

In Calgary the recession hit hard and all the aviation companies had to lay-off employees, me being one. On the 12 Jan 1984 I received a call from the V.P. of Kelowna Flightcraft Ltd. with an offer of steady employment. I took up the offer and moved to Kelowna, B.C. I began employment on the 1 Feb 1984 and I remain there at this time. In June 1984 I bought a mobile home in Winfield, B.C. just north of Kelowna.

BERNIE AND JUDY (BUCHANAN) TETREAU

Judy Buchanan was born on December llth 1952. About a month later she was back in hospital for 10 days with pneumonia.

The earliest home Judy remembers was the Karl Knudel house in Edgewater, B.C., across from the Coffee Shop. One of her earliest recollections was when she broke her arm and had to spend 10 days in the old Invermere hospital. She was 2 1/2 years old. When she was about 4 years old she fell off a ladder and cut her chin open. It took 8 stitches to close the wound. After this somewhat accident-prone beginning, she survived to attend school. She took grades 1 to 9 in Edgewater. During the winter she and Elaine Shelstrom would run home from school to escape the barrage of snowballs thrown by one of the boys. During the summer Judy and her friends would often walk up to Baptiste Lake to go swimming. After grade 9, Judy worked in Radium cleaning motels during the summers.

When her parents moved back to Breton in July 1969, Judy stayed with the Taylor family for a while. Her brother Ed was in the air force. He came out to Edgewater on leave, and Judy rode back to Breton with him on the Greyhound bus. There were no jobs in Breton, so Judy would frequently travel back to Edgewater to visit her friends. In 1974 Judy went on holidays with her brother Lloyd to B.C. They brought back Judy's friend Tina Ferguson, and they rented a suite together in Edmonton.

Judy and Tina got jobs working for an A&W restaurant. Tina's brother-in-law Larry Jones took them out to celebrate getting a job. They made the acquaintance of Bernie Tetreau and his cousin Laurie Sakaluk, who were seated at the next table. The next day, when Judy and Tina returned from the laundromat they found Bernie and Laurie visiting with Lloyd.

Bernie and Judy were married in Breton on April l2th 1965. Father Tetreau, the priest who performed the marriage, was Bernie's uncle. Jason was born in Edmonton on February llth ,1976. In May of 1978 the family moved to Vegreville. In March of 1980 Judy and Bernie split up, and Judy and Jason moved to Leduc. At Easter Bernie moved to Leduc and the family was reunited. Nikki was born 6 September 1980. In February 1981 they moved to Fernie, B.C. for employment. In June 1982 Judy and the kids came to Breton and Bernie joined them in July. Brandon was born August lst, 1982 in Edmonton, and in September the family moved to Edmonton. (Three years later, they are still there.)

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

Judy- camping, macrame, reading, fishing, biking. swimming.

Bernie- fishing, hunting, reading, fishing, repairing broken-down machines, fishing, hiking, and fishing.

Jason- bicycling and playing with his Star Wars toys.

Nikki- climbing, biking, Karina (her Cabbage Patch doll), swings, and teeter-totters.

Brandon- playing with Match Box cars.

RAY AND VIOLET (ING) MATTHEWS

I was born on May 29th, 1922, the second youngest daughter of Richard and Louisa Ing. My birthplace was Kirriemuir, Alberta, a little place on the prairie near the Saskatchewan border. When I was nearly 3 years old my folks decided to find a better place to live, as grasshoppers and drought had taken over. They moved to Nisku, where my sister Myrtle was born. Soon after that we moved to the Cooking Lake area.

I started my schooling in a small one room school. As the Douglas School was on the corner of our place, we always ran home for dinner. I can still remember the little path through the trees, coming out by the garden.

In 1934, when I was half through grade 6, we moved to the Breton area. Dorothy, Myrtle and I walked 4 1/2 miles each way to the Antross School. This school was built with lumber donated by the 2 lumber companies - Anthony and Ross. In June I passed to grade 7. When school resumed in the fall, the teacher asked me if I would like to try grade 8, as I was the only one in 7. There I had my sister Dorothy and another girl. Luckily I passed.

That summer I stated work looking after 3 children. I was barely 13, and I never did get paid for it. From then on I worked pretty steady.

In 1944 I met Ray Matthews. He was living with his mother and 2 sisters at the time, and working out. Ray was born in Ponoka on March 25th 1926. In the fall of '46 we were married. In January, 1947 we piled everything we owned into a sleigh and moved out to NE31-46-3-W5 and we are still there. A Model A car was down payment - the balance to be paid later. The snow was chest deep on the horses as we came across the field to the house.

My brother, Walter Ing, came with us from his place, where we had supper. He brought his gasoline lantern with him so we would have light to unload and he helped us set up the cookstove and unload everything. There was an airtight heater left in the house and enough wood for the night, so we soon had the house warm. The log house had been built a couple of years before by Will Hatherley and was quite warm.

We always grew a big garden and Ray is a good hunter, so kept us in meat. Ray hauled wood to Breton for $5.00 a load and cut fence posts to sell. One time Marvin Burris and Ray were hauling a load of posts to Wetaskiwin, and north of Bill Collison's the road was impassible, so they had to unload the posts and use them for corduroy and then load them up again and go on. They had to do this twice and ended up selling them for 15 cents a post. (For the sake of the younger generation it should be explained that corduroy consisted of reinforcing the road bed at deep mud holes by placing logs side by side across the road.)

We had a nice grey team of horses that were always running away. Several times they came home by themselves.

Ray is diabetic. This isn't much of a problem now with his new insulin, but in earlier years it was a constant source of worry to me. Once I found him "blacked out" in the field and I had a real struggle trying to get him home.

In the summer of 1949 Ordie Mockerman, Marvin Burris and Ray loaded sawdust into boxcars at Antross to be shipped to the prairie for grasshopper poison. In the winter of '49, he worked at Carroll Bros. planer mill in Winfield, piling lumber end running a forklift: he worked there for about three years.

In the spring of 1953 he worked at Camrose and Leduc for Canadian Construction driving cat, scraper and dozer building leases and roads for oil sites.

In the fall Floyd Stenseth and Ray bought a sawmill and logged the canyon on Floyd's place. They sold the spruce lumber to Carroll's for $50 per M board feet and also did custom sawing.

He bought a well drill to drill ourselves s well and got work drilling for the neighbors including several wells in Winfield.

In the summer of '54 he worked at Alder Flats for Jake Tucker (Red Deer) building roads for oil companies. They got rained out that summer, so came home and sawed lumber.

In 1955 Ray worked around Violet Grove and Drayton Valley, again building roads and leases.

In 1956 Ray worked putting up Butler steel buildings for water injection plants for different oil companies from Buck Creek to the Pembina River. Ellis Hooks, Myles Carson, Frank Lyons, Don Freeson, Floyd Carson and Ralph Levers worked with him.

After that he started working for the County of Wetaskiwin for a number of years driving cat. He built the park roads at Twin Lakes.

In 1970 he had to quit because of his health, and since has lived on the farm.

I enjoy singing and crafts, and I make quilts for all the grandchildren. I also worked with Homemakers for 6 years at the lodge in Winfield.

Ray enjoys hunting and fishing, and the outdoors in general. For years now he has kept honeybees.

We have five children:

Gary married Nancy Freeson and they had three children, Sheryl, Shawna, and Shelby. Gary lives at Drayton Valley with his family.

Stan married Brenda Lindberg and they live on a farm near Warburg. They have a girl and a boy, Lisa and Darren.

Diane married Barry Pepper and they live in Leduc.

Darlene married Russ Brink. She lives in Edmonton with her son Rhett Brink.

Harold married Sue Gillette. They live on a farm just north of his father's. They have a son, Aaron, and two daughters, Trudy and Elisha. Harold works in the oil field.

All our family is grown and on their own we are home alone again. We enjoy our participation in a singing group that sings some of the beautiful old songs and hymns of earlier days. We have had lots of good friends and neighbors, so I think we have been pretty lucky.

- Vi Matthews

GARY MATTHEWS FAMILY

I was born in June 1947 in Edmonton. One of my earliest memories was when Mom and Dad had yellow jaundice and we children were sent to stay with other families. I remember that in the old log house you could always tell what direction the wind was blowing - even without going outdoors! Weekends we would always have company, and at night we would have four kids in our double bed and wall-to-wall kids sleeping on the floor. We had to keep away from the old chimney hole so we wouldn't fall through.

As kids we liked to make tunnels through the big straw pile. Sometimes we had 15 kids or more crawling through the tunnels and bumping into each other in the dark.

We would try to run the old farm equipment while Dad was working away from home. Once the pin and the dogs fell out of the axle of the mower while we were using it. We were trying to cut a heavy growth of red clover, but the mower kept trying to turn sideways. We had to stop. When Dad came home he immediately recognized the problem, found the lost parts, and fixed the mower.

We had a sawmill on the farm and we cut the timber growing on our farm and did custom sawing for our neighbors. All the lumber we used to build our new house was sawed on our mill. We also traded lumber for the windows, shingles, etc.

We all helped with building the new house. Dad said it was a waste of time giving me straight nails, as I always ended up bending them anyhow. While building the house we lived in the basement. We also built a boat upstairs during this time. It was so big that we had to remove the picture window to get it out of the house.

We often went to the lake on Sundays and had wiener roasts, and did fishing and berry picking. Once we went saskatoon picking at Battle Lake with Jean and Gordon Levers. We got both vehicles stuck: and Uncle Gordon and I had to walk 14 miles home to get the tractor to pull them out.

Virtually all of my schooling was at Winfield. I was active in sports and in the Winfield and Norbuck 4-H clubs. I was in the Winfield 4-H Beef Club at first. The next year I went to the Norbuck 4-H Field Crops Club, where I won the efficiency award and a week at the Agricultural School at Vermilion. The next year I won a week at the Edmonton Exhibition. We stayed in dorms on the exhibition grounds and all our meals were free. I was also supposed to win an exchange trip to Montana, but through a mix-up I was informed too late to go.

I graduated from Winfield in 1965 and started work: in the oil industry on service rigs, drilling rigs, and pipeline work. In 1967 I went to Lindsay Thurber High School in Red Deer for one semester to up-grade my marks for University. Because of a serious car accident in July 1969 I was unable to do manual work:, and in October I started work- for Teledyne Data Processing in Calgary.

In March of 1970 I married Nancy Freeson. We Iived in Calgary until I was one of 2l people replaced by a new computer at Teledyne. Then we moved back to Winfield, to a house we rented from a friend, and I went back to work: in the oil industry. We bought a mobile home and moved to Drayton Valley about October 1974, to be closer to my work. In October 1978 I became self-employed in contract trucking, which I am still doing. In November 1978 we bought a house in Drayton Valley, where the children and I still reside.

I have three children. Sheryl was born in Calgary, September 20, 1970. She really likes horses, the country, sports, boys, and is a VERY active person.

Shawna was born on the 7th of December 1973 in Breton. She is quiet, and enjoys reading, music and her friends. Her friends take her to all kinds of neat places.

Shelby was born December l9th, 1976 in Drayton Valley. He likes electronic games, computers, trikes:s, motorcycles, snowmobiles, and machines in general. He enjoys hunting and out-door activities. In the summer he is out of the house by 7:30 and I'm lucky to have him back in the house by 10:30 at night.

Church and church family are a big part of my life since becoming a Christian in 1978. I am kept pretty busy between raising three children, keeping house, my business, plus a partnership in a second business (mechanical repairs) and some time for myself.

STAN AND BRENDA (LINDBERG) MATTHEWS

I was born in Edmonton on December 2lst, 1949. We lived in a log house on the farm until I was about 11. All five of us children shared one bedroom upstairs. The house was always cold in the winter. Dad used to play the guitar and Mom used to sing to us in the evenings. There was a wide variety of songs, but I remember especially the Wilf Carter songs. (Cowboy songs about Alberta and the West.) We would always ask them to sing "Old Shep" about a fellow who has to shoot his dog, and half-way through the song we would all break out crying.

Every Saturday we went to Breton to buy groceries and to visit Grandma and Grandpa Ing. When they got a television, we liked to watch the programs at their house. In Breton we would get to meet the other relatives as well, the Walter Ing family, the George Buchanan family, and the Gordon Levers family.

We had our own electric power plant for a year or two, but as soon as power lines were installed in our area, we had it hook:ed up. The first Christmas afterwards we bought a television as a Christmas present. It was one of the first in the district and the neighbors would come over to watch it in the evening.

When I was about 11 or 12 we built a new house. I remember pounding nails to help. We were helped by various friends and relatives; I remember especially Pearl and Floyd Stenseth and Jean and Gordon Levers. We lived in the basement for two winters and one summer, until the upstairs was ready for occupancy.

We attended school in Winfield. I was very active in school sports and the Winfield and Norbuck 4-H clubs, and Army Cadets in Breton. Other interests were fishing, hunting, and outdoor activities in general.

I first met Brenda at a high school basketball game in Breton. I graduated in 1968 and Brenda graduated in 1971. Brenda says "Stan told me he wouldn't marry me until I graduated." She graduated in June and we were married in August .

We moved a small house onto Mom and Dad Matthews' farm, and this became our first home together. We had no water and no power. We eventually got electricity, but never did get water there. For the first two winters I worked on oil rigs in the arctic, farming during the summer. Lisa, our first child came along in 1973. Darren, our second child was born in 1975. I was able to find work in Warburg, and we moved onto our own f arm south of Warburg i n the fall of 1975.

We enjoy camping and canoeing as a family, and I go hunting with Dad and my brothers every fall.

Darren is a real hockey nut, which takes up most of our winter. Darren enjoys swimming, motor-triking, and most sports.

Lisa takes horse-riding lessons and belongs to a pony club. She also enjoys swimming and reading.

Brenda likes sewing, shopping, camping, and volunteer work.

We now (1985) operate a cow-calf operation on our farm and I no longer work out .

BARRY AND DIANE (MATTHEWS) PEPPER

I was born in Wetaskiwin on December 11, 1952. Mom says I was a wiggle-worm from day one. In the hospital I wore the skin off my knees and at the Christmas Concert that year I squirmed out of my diaper and Dad had to try to find it in all the Christmas wrapping paper.

Home as I can first remember was a small log house on a farm where there were cows, horses, chickens, and pigs. The log house was always cool, so we had to wear several layers of clothes to keep warm. From my 18 years on the farm grew a love of nature and the wide open spaces.

While living in the log house, hockey games on T.V. were a major means of entertainment. When the hockey games went into overtime, our eight milk, cows went into overtime, too. They had to wait to be milked until the game was over. The Toronto Maple Leafs were my favorite team. Once when they were playing the Montreal Canadiens, I was sick. upstairs in bed and unable to watch it. Dad knew how much I enjoyed watching hockey, so he came upstairs, wrapped me up in a big blanket, and carried me downstairs so I could watch the game with him.

Mom was a very good shot with a 12 gauge shotgun. We used to have many chicken hawks try to raid our flock of chickens, but not many of them escaped when Mom brought out the gun. She also used to make the best bread in the country. It was always a treat to come home from school to the aroma of fresh bread and cinnamon buns. Mom would always plan it so that she was just taking taking them out of the oven as we were coming in the door. With five kids going to school, we were treated to fresh baking frequently.

Sunday was the best day of the week! Our yard was always full of vehicles and our house full of relatives and friends. The more people that came to visit, the happier Mom was. She seemed to thrive on people around her. She would spend many hours in a hot kitchen preparing meals for all of us.

One memory that is vivid in my mind from my childhood was when one of our horses, Barney, one spring grabbed the front of my coat in his teeth, raised me from the ground, and shook me like a rag doll. Fortunately I wasn't badly hurt. Guess it doesn't pay to stand on the grass that a horse wants to eat.

When I was was about eight years old, we started to build new house just south of our log house. The basement was about eight feet from our front door. One day at dinner time, we heard a plane fly very low overhead and everyone went running outside, looking up at the sky to see the plane. Unfortunately Dad ran a little too far and fell into the hole dug for the basement.

An avid horse lover from the time I can remember, a big highlight of my life was when I was about ten and Dad came home with a horse in the back of his truck. He was a quarterhorse - mustang cross named "Birdie". Dad said he was for everyone, and he was unless he was bad, then he was mine. It seemed like he was usually mine. Birdie gave me many years of pleasure.

I attended Grade 1 to grade 12 at Winfield School. I was always a tomboy in school, preferring to play baseball with the boys to playing games with the girls. Baseball and basketball were my favorite sports, and in grade 12 I was captain of the girls