 One of the things with regard to my childhood on the farm was the fact that I guess it would be the government of Canada asked that people collect bones, dried animal bones and aluminum. So we used to scurry about the countryside collecting these bones because there had been a lot of antelope and I'm not sure about buffalo in the area but the bones being the dry country that it was the bones quite well preserved so these bones and any aluminum that we could possibly recover from old cars that had been and machinery that had been left in the ditches we would gather up and I guess our dad would take them into the elevator which was the collection area for this process and these bones and aluminum they went to I would think to the Toronto area to a munitions factory because they were gathering up everything possible that they could turn into munitions so it must have been quite a successful program and at the same time we were on rations but very small because we grew everything that we ate but we were rationed to sugar and we were given stamps and I guess when you went into the local town Mr. Smith's grocery you they had to give a stamp and then you were allowed so much sugar because they were sugar of course was much was going towards the munitions end of things and so I don't remember too much about that but I remember mother being very careful that we all had our own share and we had six jars of sugar on the counter and we would have competitions as to who could eat less not more but less and at the same time I was thinking that some of the older farm boys in the area joined the services there were quite a number of them as a matter of fact and all of them as I recall came back safely and settled back in on the farms and at that point they were a few years older so wanted their own homes and they were assisted by the Department of Veterans Affairs to by land and and settle at that time