The family moved first to Castor, Alberta and then established a homestead north of Youngstown near Sounding Creek. The story takes the reader through the turbulent times of the First World War and the recession that followed. Later they moved south of Youngstown to the Cobblestone area and then Cabin Lake.

The weather and political-economic circumstances were very unkind to the families of this region.The Roselands abandoned their home at Cabin Lake in the spring of 1927.

The family moved to Okotoks in 1927, a small town  south of Calgary. Two years later, the great economic Depresssion began. In Okotoks, the children graduated from high school and the older girls married. The story details many of the circumstances the family encountered during the Depression years.

By 1939, the drought areas of the west had begun a slow recovery when the war in Europe began. The three boys, who were the youngest in the family, remained at home until the outbreak of the Second World War.

The background image was taken near Cabin Lake, south of Youngtown Alberta, photo by Shirley Walker