My Homesteader's Heritage is the story of two families who
immigrated from England and Poland to face the challenges of
homesteading in Canada. Despite their vastly differing backgrounds and
cultures, the two families were joined together when Leonard Croswell
married Ella Stebner in 1943 at Newbrook, Alberta.

The Croswell family began their journey in 1842, sailing from
Liverpool, England for thirteen weeks across the perilous Atlantic
Ocean and stalling amid the threatening icebergs of the Labrador
Current. An outbreak...