Jean Hadfield Feliksiak was only 8 years old in 1940, when she was caught in the throes of the Second World War in Middlesbrough, England. At the time it was thought best for children between the ages of 5-15 to leave England and find safety in the Commonwealth countries of the Empire, thus began the exodus of 3,000 Child Evacuees. Without parents, in a group of 80 evacuee children, Jean was sent across the Atlantic to live on a small isolated farm in rural Alberta with relatives she had never met. From a single child, living the genteel city life, Jean was thrown into the Canadian West with a family of 9 children, coyotes, guns and Old Beauty the school horse.