Faith Steed Howarth

[Discussing her family's move to Canada. This occurred in the late 1800's to the early 1900's. They returned from Canada in 1908.]

It was with the church, sort of, you know. It was sort of a church thing. They sent a lot of people. They didn't particularly pick out I don't think, 1 don't know, 'cause I wasn't born. But, a lot of the men and women and families went up to Canada to open up that region and my father and mother went there. It was before I was born and, so later, we lived there until I was about six years old.

And then, we came down [back to Farmington, Utah.] Now I didn't know at the time the reason that we left at that time - it was my father's health. You see, that was a wild, open country and first of all, the men went up and they dug this big canal because there was no water on this land that they would have. And then they went up and they each had places to live - now, mother has told me that they lived in a tent, then they had this little house and then he built a nice house. That house still stands and people live in it.

But, then when I was still a small child - you see, they didn't know about the water, they didn't know to purify it and their oldest daughter died when she was fourteen of typhoid fever along with a lot of other children. It was awfully hard on mother because that was her little [helper] - the boys were older, they helped [with the farm work], but she had no help. Anyhow, that was what happened and then as we got - I don't remember anything but the new house because I was too small a baby. I don't remember that sister at all. I have no picture. I was alive at that time but I guess that I was never allowed anywhere near her. Anyhow, that happened, but I didn't know, but, I remember the place there because you see, he not only had this house, barns and all these places in the city of Raymond, no, that's not right is it? Where did we live? [Pam - Sterling] Sterling, Alberta, Canada.

Livestock was kept. I remember the ranch. I remember being out there. Even have a picture of me as a little kid hiding around the corner of the house when they took [a] picture. But, I remember being out there one time when they storms just came up these were prairies, you know - would come up terribly. We went out afterward and there were great big gobs, you know, the hail came down. We made ice cream with the ice from that. I remember about that and about going down into the cellar when it was storming. Lucy was there, you see, she's my older sister. She was taking care of us.

But, you see, daddy had all that work. I guess they just worked themselves practically to death. I know that he was out on the prairie one time and was what they call snow bound and it affected his eyes, Now, he didn't go blind, but it changed them a lot and evidently he had a lot of things that were hard on him. By the time we came down here [Utah], though we didn't know it, and I had no idea, he had a very bad heart condition. Of course, that's what killed him.