After the church, St. Peter and Paul, was built in 1917, a hall was
erected in the church yard for social occasions.

At Wargety Lake, on part of 4-19-21 and 9-19-21, many spend their
leisure time fishing and picniking.

The mail arrived by carrier every Friday night from Elphinstone and
Joe Dziver, on SE. 1A 1-19-21, was assured of plenty of company that night, as
the people arrived to pick up their mail at the post office, established in his
home in 1916. In 1920 Frank Kwiatkowski, took over as postmaster, in his
home. .About 1939, a post office was built in Charlie Kwiatkowski's farmyard,
on N.W. % 36-19-21. Shortly after the end of World War 11 the post office in
this district was closed with the residents picking up their mail at Elphinstone.

Nick Bialas bought the Post Office building and moved it to Elphinstone for his
home.

Special honors go to Mrs. Maria (Mary) Maydanuik who celebrated her
101st birthday in March 1970. She lives with her son John and enjoys fairly good
health. She has lived in the Wisla district since coming to Canada from Austria
in 1900, with her husband Mike.

PIONEERS OF HOROD

A small group of people from the Western Ukraine arrived in Strathclair
in April 1898. They stayed in ”Black-Smith" Russell's livery barn for two weeks
before deciding to settle in the Horod district. As they had no means of trans-
portation, Mr. Russell consented to drive them to their homesteads with his
horses.

' Immediately upon arriving, they built temporary shelters, called "budas"
for their families. These were constructed with split black poplar logs. The logs
were stood on end, tent fashion, poles were placed across the top and the whole
structure was covered with hay and dirt. These homes had very little head room
but were built fairly long, and heated with a box-stove they were warm and
comfortable. They were soon replaced with proper log houses, although a few
families lived in them for one winter. All groceries, flour, salt, tea, sugar, etc.
were carried in 100 pound bags from Strathclair. Later when they were able to
purchase oxen and horses, this task was made considerabely easier. John
Marcishchuk owned the first team of horses in the district.

In 1906, Jacob Black and Harry Maksymec bought the first portable
steam threshing outfit. The threshing machine was hand fed but had no straw
blower. It wasn't too long before they attached a blower, to relieve them of the
tedious job of carrying away the straw. Jacob and Harry did custom threshing in
the Horod, Prince of Wales and Sandy Lake districts. Neither of them could read
or write but they were careful accountants and at the end of one threshing
season, they had cleared five cents. There were no pennies in use then, so they
bought a package of cigarette papers and divided them evenly.

In 1909, Maksym Tkachuk, John Marcishchuk, Kost Lukianchuk and
George Charkas purchased a horse powered threshing machine. Four teams of

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