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...And unfortunately out of all of that, you know obviously the Icelanders and other nationalities came to Canada from other countries, and if you look at the map you'll see that they all wanted a piece of land - or the majority did - every quarter had a name on it. We just got a map here from the Emerald RM [rural municipality] and dated back to when it was originated, and every quarter had a name on it. And right here on this section my grandfather had one quarter and my great grandmother had the other quarter, a fellow by the name of Moodie had another quarter and another fellow by the name of Gordon. And I believe that it was Mr Gordon that just up and left and never did come back, one or two years here, and Moodie - one of them went to war and never came back, and the other packed his bags and left. And then somehow my dad purchased one quarter, and my grandfather must have bought the other quarter. That made it this section, that we lived on, that dad farmed. And of course back then they all had their fifteen, twenty cows, tied in the barn ... cleaned the barn, took the hay in... Today my son and I are farming and, I was just doing the papers this morning, so fifty quarters or 8000 acres, we run 4 or 500 cows plus a bunch of feeder cattle. There's something wrong with that picture, because nobody should have to do that to make a living, but the margin gets so slim that five acres won't make you a living. Then it gets to the point where you're just running and you can't see daylight. I don't know what the answer is.

Thorsteinson, Danny