In 1975, 53 people, 42 horses and 13 wagons went on a cross country trip. I was there. | CBC Canada 2017 This is where I my friend and her brother . I had left Ontario Canada in 1971 to move to Alberta to me it was Gods Country . i have now moved back to Ontario in 2002 , Happy to say that we have remain friends and still are so for 50 years I could write a book but this is not about me it is about my friend . Friendship is a gift and I treasure mind .
On April 1, 1975, Barbara Houghton was one of 53 people who boarded covered wagons and headed west from Ontario in what was meant to be a four-month adventure. Seventeen months later, she was one of only two who arrived at their destination.
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