Parkin, Naden

I was born and raised on our family farm outside of Preeceville, Saskatchewan. My father was a farmer and a driller on an oil and gas rig in Northern Alberta and British Columbia. My mother was a stay home mom, who later worked in a hog barn nursery, and is currently working at a dairy farm. When I was 15 my parents divorced and I went to boarding school at Caronport, Saskatchewan. After high school and a year of college, I headed out under my father's instructions to live with my brother in Camrose, Alberta and began working as a lease hand on a rig near Rimby, Alberta. Later, I spent the sum...