back but many didn’t and that was the hardest to
accept.

The Christmas of 1916 my wife’s brother, his wife
and baby came to visit us from Saskatchewan. On
March 17, we shipped everything to Herbert, Sask. I
worked out until the spring of 1918. Then I bought a
half section of land. We started all over again the hard
way. We had many ups and downs and it took twenty-
five years to get on our feet. Many crops were lost by
drought, hail and wind. From then on, things started
coming my way. I bought another half section in
1945, and I rented the whole section to my son-in-
law. My wife and I moved to Haney, B.C., where I
built three houses and some cabins; all are sold now.

We came back to Saskatchewan in 1964, my wife
being ill. She died in July 1965. We were with our
daughter Alice who is our only child. She married
Carl Berg in 1926, who emigrated with his mother
from Norway in 1913 . His father came to the U.S.A.
in 1909, and later immigrated to Canada. They had
three children, two daughters and one son.

1 am retired and still living with my daughter,
who takes care of everything for me. I was ninety
years old January 20, 1972. I still enjoy fishing and
own my own car and boat. I don’t do any driving
myself. My fishing friends do it for me. June 8th,
1972 I had an eye operation for a cataract. My vision
is slowly coming back. When it gets well, I shall have
the other one done.

My two brothers are living. Charlie Barlow who
moved to Fisherton in 1910 with his family, and my
youngest brother Grant, who remained in Dekalb,
Illinois, and lives alone and is eighty-seven.

BARRETT FAMILY
by Mrs. Sadie Barrett Larence

My great-grandparents, the Kenny’s and
Keough’s, came from Ireland in 1840 and settled in
Quebec. My grandmother, Mary Kenny, was born in
1842. She married John Keough. My Mother, Mar-
garet Keough, was the eldest of five sons and three
daughters. She was born in 1866, but when her par-
ents moved to North Dakota, she stayed in Quebec to
learn French and dressmaking, moving to North Da-
kota when she was eighteen.

On father’s side of the family, his father, Ben—
jamin Barrett, came from England, and his mother,
Catherine MacMillan, came from Scotland in the
1840’s. They settled in P.E.I. My father was born in
1866. He was three when his mother and oldest
brother died. His oldest sister looked after the family.
He went to North Dakota with his two brothers. His
brother Jack farmed but like so many others, lost
everything in a prairie fire and had to start again.
When his wife died, my mother and father looked

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Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Barrett:

after his little boy. When he was ten, his father came
and took him to Saskatchewan and they never saw
him again.

My mother, Margaret Keough, married my fa-
ther, Hugh Barrett, when she was twenty-four in
1891. My oldest brother, Ben, was born in 1892,
Percy in 1897, Bessie in 1900. Our father was on the
police force in Valley City, North Dakota, until they
moved to Osborne, Manitoba, in 1901. I was born in
1902 and Harold in 1904. When I was two, we moved
two miles east of Headingly onto a 2300—acre farm.
My father was foreman on the farm and my mother
did the cooking for about twenty-five men. A few
years later, they hired a male cook. In the winter, the
men went to the bush to cut lumber at Red Deer, Alta.
Their cook was killed by a bear a few days before
they were to come home. My grandfather died about
this time at the age of fifty—two. He still lived in North
Dakota and had been sick for some time. They lived
eighteen miles from town. In the summer, they
burned buffalo chips and in the winter hauled coal to