Stanzel Family Tree

18 Jan 2019

Continued from 15 Jan 2019

'Hearing of Crown Lands that were available in Canada upon certain
improvements being made, they decided to come across. They found a
homestead about three miles northeast of Carleton Place, Ont, which is
about thirty miles southeast of Ottawa, and filled out an application on it.
It takes about three years to improve the land with a log house and stable,
plus clearing and cultivating fifteen acres. This would average five acres a
year as it was heavily timbered. That would be no small undertaking in
those days with an axe and cross cut saw. There were no roads, just trails
through the bush to your next door neighbor. No doctors, hospitals,
drugstores or cemeteries, just hard work, and you die with your boots on,
if you don't die in bed. Potatoes, whole wheat bread, rolled oats and wildlife
meat were the main courses to live on, plus wild honey and maple syrup.
There were no frills in those days. They were husky, hardy pioneers.
There were nine children born on this homestead. [The author names the
children of the wrong family here].'

Next entry will list the children and their spouses

Jim Stanzell