Memoirs of a twentieth century homesteader: Being Lawrence Nowell's recollections of the early days of prairie farming in western Canada

In 1902 at the age of 17 Lawrence Nowell was sent by his father from Liverpool to Canada with a 16 year old friend. They arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia and headed west towards Calgary and Edmonton to learn farming so the family could emigrate and set up a homestead on the Prairies.