The long trail

History of the Freeland family and their participation in the last great homesteading rush of North America. In the winter of 1913 they left Edmonton. Their destination was the new town of Grouard, but they moved further north to the town of Peace River Crossing. History of John Wilbur Freeland, who was born 1876 in Mowequa, Ill. and his wife, Olive Houck (b. 1888).