Along the Way Leah Sheffield Gibb "You think you have lived a very ordinary life and that no one would be interested in reading about it." That is what Leah Gibb thought until she began noting a few incidents that she thought might be different from most other people. She tells about her early experiences growing up on a farm in southern Alberta, about going to normal school, and for the first time facing a class of students, many of them bigger than she was. She describes her experiences teaching in rural schools and among the Hutterites in Alberta and in public schools in Washington State. As a young woman she caught tuberculosis and spent 18 months in a sanitorium in Calgary, Alberta. During that time she was pregnant and had to leave the hospital to deliver her baby. Her older children and the new baby had to be cared by others while she faught to stay alive. Her husband was a sheep rancher and together they ran a spread of 3,000 acres on the Milk River in Alberta. Life was difficult and challenging without modern facilities. Sections of this book are devoted to the lives of her parents and grandparents taking the reader back to the pioneer days of the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. Information is included about her Sheffield and Taylor ancestors. Because her husband’s days parallel hers from the time they met, this is also his life story. Since their life together has meant a connection with his ancestors, she has also written of them. This book is beautifully illustrated by her artwork and collection of pictures. Table of contents Part One: The Canadian Years Part Two: Life in the United States
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