Making Our Way Home

My husband and I like many others living in the province of Alberta considered ourselves misplaced Saskatchewanites more than we considered ourselves Albertans. I had come to Alberta as a child, my parents needing more financial opportunities than Saskatchewan had, at that time, to offer. My husband came as a teenager out of school and off the farm, looking to make big money fast. So he could return to the farm and to Saskatchewan.

Once married we together plotted, planned and saved, looking forward to the day when we would be able to move home. Then in 1993, seventeen years and three children later we bought a quarter section of land east of Millet. The first year on the farm my husband gave me two ewes for Valentine's day, just to keep the grass down.

In time both my knowledge of farming and my flock grew, but we had become much more than sheep farmers and certainly more than just Alberta land owners, we had become Albertans. I currently own a flock of about 200 sheep. They too are employed Albertans, working for the City of Wetaskiwin as yard maintenance. In working our way back we made our way home!

Submitted by Jean from Millet