The Homeplace

Stepping off the train in Vermilion, Ivy shivered despite the new warm winter jacket John had insisted on purchasing in Winnipeg. John's warnings had not been sufficient to prepare her for how small and bare the town was. The "Great Fire' of April 1918, only two years prior, had left only a handful buildings standing and the few left were mostly rough wooden structures, crudely erected with not a lick of paint on most of them. This was Ivy's first taste of how her life was about to change a...