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Menno and Leah's "Daadihaus"

After passing their farm at Hawkesville to their daughter Mary and her husband Isaac Bauman, Menno and Leah established a smaller farm just out of Hawkesville. Their youngest son, Tilman, farmed here and Menno and Leah lived for many years in this small house (in the foreground), with their daughter Saloma. Menno had a great interest in planting trees, taking care of a woodlot, and cutting timber from carefully selected trees. He bought two farms, one two miles to the northwest (north of the Redhill School), and one near Crosshill, a beautiful sugar bush. From local authorities he obtained permission to plant a shelter belt along what is now Herrgott Road between Hawkesville and Wallenstein, Ontario.

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