Ernest Fiset was proud of his 1929 Plymouth. Just a few years later, he would lose his Saskatchewan farm, his barn, and his horses during the Great Depression. Somehow, the Plymouth remained. It became his transportation, his livelihood, and a means of carrying his family toward a new life in British Columbia.

I sift through a small cardboard box that perhaps once held greeting cards, its lid long since gone. For decades it lay under Ernest’s bed in his tiny house. Inside are fragments of a life—tintypes, bank books, notebooks, and postcards from 1919. Piece by piece, they reveal the story of a young prairie farmer building a life after the First World War.

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