Living on the line. Growing up in southern Ontario on a farm. Growing up in ural Ontario made a difference in my life. I grew up with family around me, my grandmother Lewis lived next door my grand mother Weidman lived 3 miles away. Both parents lived on Township lines one parent on the Township Line between Uxbridge Township and Pickering Township and the other on the line between Markham Township and Pickering Township”” “
My church was also on the Township line I had to cross over each day to get to my church which was in Pickering Township not Uxbridge Township although the line was a very thin, line physically it was a great divide to our family. My cousins went 20 km south to school and my family travel 20 km north to school. Crossing the line to go to church was a large divide and divided our family religiously. My father was a Reesor Mennonite and my mother was all Widemen Mennonite but I’m okay with that. In my home church there were both Reesor and Widman’s with strong religious backgrounds and heritage. It can meet the moral base to live my entire life I always knew what was right and wrong what I should do and what I didn’t do my conscious heart was always aware of the wrong and right that I did along with all my cousins. But I was also a Lewis which was our Welsh name and had Welsh moral traits within it I believe that my ancestors came from England with a little sense of the Welsh revival. Grandma Lewis always said that we never got together with the Lewis’s because they swore a lot. My mother’s favourite saying was “what would the neighbours think.”
