This house, which is still there was finished in 1903, the year that my mother was born. My grand parents had a dairy farm there - I don't know how many cows, butas well as some hirees, the family also milked by hand (no machines then). My mother always said that was the reason her upper arms were big. Grandpa was the 1st dairy in the interior to deliver milk by truck - he had a Buick car that he converted - this was early in the century. He also was one of the founders of the creamery in Armstrong which later became Armstrong Cheese factory. Note the vines on the porch - hops - G & G always had hops growing on all of their houses. The place is still farmed, but not as a dairy. When we first moved here, there were 2 little houses across the road - one was built by Grandpa for his parents (who are buried in the nearby cemetery} and the other was the Lansdownw scool where my mother started to school in 1909. They are both gone now. that is the buildings, but also Mother, grandparents & great grandparents! I think most of you have seen the house & the graveyard with headstones. The church they attennded is still open in Armstrong.
I'm not sure, but think they moved to Stettler in about 1920 - from Kelowna, actually where they had lived for some time - Mother went to school here up tp gr 10 or 11. Grandpa seemed a restless sort of man - he farmed here for a bit - in the Mission area, then opened a machine shop across from city park. There was a recession after ww1 and then they packed up and left here. The stories are a bit vague as it depended on who told them, but they went bust. One version said the bubble burst and another that he cosigned for a friends loan and lost everything, so who knows? certainly not I
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This house, which is still there was finished in 1903, the year that my mother was born. My grand parents had a dairy farm there - I don't know how many cows, butas well as some hirees, the family also milked by hand (no machines then). My mother always said that was the reason her upper arms were big. Grandpa was the 1st dairy in the interior to deliver milk by truck - he had a Buick car that he converted - this was early in the century. He also was one of the founders of the creamery in Armstrong which later became Armstrong Cheese factory. Note the vines on the porch - hops - G & G always had hops growing on all of their houses. The place is still farmed, but not as a dairy. When we first moved here, there were 2 little houses across the road - one was built by Grandpa for his parents (who are buried in the nearby cemetery} and the other was the Lansdownw scool where my mother started to school in 1909. They are both gone now. that is the buildings, but also Mother, grandparents & great grandparents! I think most of you have seen the house & the graveyard with headstones. The church they attennded is still open in Armstrong.
Thanks Mom!
What year did they move to Alberta Mom? And why did they move?
I'm not sure, but think they moved to Stettler in about 1920 - from Kelowna, actually where they had lived for some time - Mother went to school here up tp gr 10 or 11. Grandpa seemed a restless sort of man - he farmed here for a bit - in the Mission area, then opened a machine shop across from city park. There was a recession after ww1 and then they packed up and left here. The stories are a bit vague as it depended on who told them, but they went bust. One version said the bubble burst and another that he cosigned for a friends loan and lost everything, so who knows? certainly not I
Maybe you married your grandfather, Mom. Not in the cosigned for friend's loan dept, but in the restlessness.
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