harvest excursion. There was a bunch from around here [ Belfast area] went out. They all landed at my place. I farmed that till 1937. I worked on the railroad in '29: we had no crop... .Then, '30, we had a good crop but no price for it. Fifteen to 18cents a bushel or something for wheat. Yes, it was a government [problem]. Well, there was no Wheat Board then. It was just open market and the buyers 'd buy it as cheap as they could. Wheat Pool came in in 1924 but they didn't have much. And '31 up to '37 we had no crop: dried out for five years. So I moved back to Alberta, up into Bon Accord, Alberta. When I quit the farm in Saskatchewan , there was six of a family and there wasn't a cent. I got 20 dollars relief for the winter. That was all. There was crop failures for five years, and I moved out, and I got 20 dollars for the winter. It was relief, they called it. But there was no unemployment insurance, no family allowance, no pensions, no nothing. They never had a real crop failure north of Edmonton, around Edmon¬ ton. They had light crops but never a crop failure. They had hard times there, all right, but they never had times like in the centre of Saskatchewan and southern Alberta where a lot of well-off farmers went broke and didn't have nothing. Big families. I pulled out. I had a couple of horses and we drove from Luseland to Bon Accord. I rode horseback for a little over 300 miles, was 16 days on the road. And no money, no nothing. I don't know what people'd do now. There's no place they'd move to. I farmed it afterwards: I went back and farmed up till 1942, but then I quit it 'cause I was working at carpenter work. I was up on the for a year, worked at carpenter work up there. I worked in Edmonton since '48, '49 I guess, and I worked up till I retired. I was jack of all trades and master of none, I guess. Hindsight A person often wonders if they had done certain things they figured on. Like, when MacRaes sold that mill out and Rosses bought it, I pretty near bought that. I often wonder what [life] would've been. Or, when I left the farm. I often wondered what would've happened if I'd stayed on the farm. Things like that. 226 BELFAST PEOPLE