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Ron: So, everything wasn't just smooth, when you moved here?

Mabel: Do you think so, when you come to noplace? No place to live or...

Ron: When we first started talking, Grandma, that was interesting, because people would leave Mount Forest, Ontario and come here and it's difficult to understand why with all the adversity and the prairie fires and the depression...

Mabel: Well, you take all these people, these Geislers and all them come from the old country here. I mean, there was nothing to start up with outside of Rouleau.

Ron: Did your family not have a farm at Mount Forest?

Mabel: No. My dad was a blacksmith at Mount Forest.

Ron: He was a blacksmith and he came west to get land?

Mabel: Yes. He made sleighs and buggies or shod horses in Ontario. We didn't have no farm.

Judy: Grandma, Grandpa Herb moved here from England?

Mabel: Yes.

Judy: Do you know when the Watson's came to Canada?

Mabel: I think about [190]5.

Judy: And what did his dad do in England?

Mabel: He was a policeman and I think maybe he worked at a butcher's.

Judy: Grandpa had just one sister?

Mabel: Two sisters. One died in the old country of appendicitis. The other was burnt in the States here, down at Nebraska; kids playing with matches or something.