Courtesy Mary Ross

Everett (first on left,front row) with battalion, 30 km out ()fBrussels, Belgium, c.1918.

tent, I guess the horse tent too. But...instead of setting up the tent for to sleep in, we all slept in the cook tent. Set up the stove and the cook made something to eat. Put on a fire in the stove. The next morning we got up and the mattresses — we had mattresses — were all froze to the ground and the stove was down pretty near out of sight. We set up right on a muskeg and it thawed out: the stove thawed it out. The mud was in the oven. So the cook said, “No breakfast this morning. We have no stove.” We had to move camp up on higher land.

We worked there all that winter and got into Whitecourt, oh, I would imagine, May or June. We brought the railroad in there to Whitecourt.

That was in 1921.

Luseland Farm

The first year we had a good crop. I got married in 1923, and in 1924 we had no crop. It dried out. No moisture. We were farming with horses then. I went to work on the railroad that winter and I got back in the spring and put in another crop and we had a fair crop that year. I believe that was the year Maude and Ewenie [my sister and brother] went out, yeah, on the

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