My parents Jacob and Margaret Rempel Lehn, both born in Ukraine, came to Davidson, Saskatchewan in 1927 to join Dad's sister there. Our house consisted of two granaries set end to end which made a 32 ft by 16 ft building. This home stood until several years ago. Here we sharecropped wheat and oats until 1932. In our five years there we had one good crop. My siblings are Louise Penner of Saskatoon, the late Edward Lehn, Tena Pauls of Leamington, Antonia Krahn of Saskatoon, Theresa Ediger of Kamloops, B.C., Jacob Lehn of Leamington, Henry Lehn of Leamington, I was born next, then Nellie Tiessen of Leamington. My youngest sister Maria died at nine months of age.

In 1932, we moved 125 miles northwest to Sonningdale, Saskatchewan. Dad took the horses, cattle and machinery in a box car. Mom and children travelled on a horse-pulled wagon.

Along the way, we ran out of food for the horses. Some people gave us feed for the horses; others charged for the feed. We travelled through Saskatoon on the city's main street.

We settled in what was called the Park Belt, it was really just a bush, where Uncle Abe Rempel, and his in-laws, the Bueckerts lived. Each farm had 160 acres. Here we built a log house on the CPR line which I remember to this day. It had a large kitchen which sufficed for a dining and living room, two bedrooms and a backroom which became my older brother's bedroom. There was a cellar hole in the floor where the potatoes and other food was stored.

I, Peter Lehn with my team of horses and load of wood coming back from an afternoon of cutiing. Note frost on horses.

In 1936, my sister Louise married Jake Penner in the log Sonningdale school where Mennonite church services were held. Frank Bueckert was our pastor. It was a muddy day in April and we needed to walk part way. Unfortunately, my sister's bridal veil caught on a tree branch.

The Sonningdale settlement was established in1930 and by the 1950s, the two Dick families, the Pauls, Bueckerts, Kaspers, Rempels and a group of Old Colony families had moved off. Some families went west to British Columbia.we moved to Ontario in the fall of 1949. My mother and father, along with sister Tena and Bernie Pauls were already in Ontario.Our family members travelled by train and brother Jake and I drove the one-ton truck loaded with bedding and canned foods. On the way Jake and I ate the cookies Mom had baked for us.

We stopped for fuel and water. We travelled via the United States and crossed Lake Michigan on a ferry to Manistee, which cost $23 U.S. Beds were provided on the boat. The truck had a flat tire on the way and the new one cost us $30. We travelled without birth certificates and simply explained at the border that our family was moving to Canada.

We arrived in Leamington after dark and spent one night at Bernie and sister Tena's who were already living here. I got work on farms and then I worked for the Town of Leamington for 41 years. Our family rented a house on the ridge across from the cemetery and then bought a house on the Kevinsky Side Road which we moved to concession 4 in 1949. Alexander Schmidtgal, who worked at H.J. Heinz, eventually moved that same house to Deer Run Road. We toured this house six years ago during a Lehn reunion.

Our greater Lehn family gets together every four years. Two years ago we met at Camp Shakina, north of Saskatoon. This camp is situated on 260 acres; about 80 family members came. Some stayed in campers.

Lydia Rempel and I met in Saskatchewan before their family moved to St. Catharines in 1942. We met again in 1948 and were married in St.Catharines by Rev. Peter Heinrichs in1952. We rented a house on Poplar Street in Leamington until spring, then built a double garage followed by a house at 12 Johnston Street. In 1964, we moved to concession 6 in Mersea Township.

In 1985, Lydia and I moved into the town of Leamington. I work at the Et Cetera Shoppe two days weekly. Today we have five children and seven grandchildren.