Word: gretna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy as that. He went to work for a Mennonite farmer at Gretna, Manitoba, for $110 a year and keep. By 1903 he had saved enough to return to the Ukraine for his wife and three children. They brought ten other Ukrainian families to Canada with them...
...four more years Elyniak worked for farmers at Gretna, drew $80 a year plus 80 bu. of wheat and 40 bu. of barley. He bought a team of oxen, two cows, 30 chickens, a wagon and a plow, shipped them west to Edmonton in a freight car, then drove another 50 miles east to Chipman. There he settled with other Ukrainians, raised three sons and four daughters. The homesteading was rough, but not as hard as in the Ukraine...