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well hello friends welcome to
Saskatchewan welcome to the middle of
Canada we are currently on my dad's farm
where the nearest town is like ten
kilometers away and the population of
that town is about 500 people so this is
an area of Canada that I highly doubt
many tourists come to see and it's a
shame because on the surface it may look
like there's really not a lot to see
here there's obviously not a lot going
on but being someone who was raised in
Saskatchewan like I was born in Ukraine
but I grew up here from the age of five
there's actually so much more beauty and
just so many more interesting things
that go on in these parts and probably
people realize so in today's video I
wanted to give you guys an inside look
of what life is like in these parts I'm
probably going to have my dad give more
of a tour since he's the farmer and
lives in this area of what life is like
here so I hope you guys will enjoy this
inside look and let's get to it
mmm hello pebbles aren't you a cutie
why don't you acuity and here's the man
the legend himself
Gordon McLeod here with which cat who's
missing Blackie very creative names all
right dad what can you tell us about Wow
says it all so you've basically been a
farm boy all your life right right but
you grew up like on a farm outside of
Camden oh yeah and so your dad was a
farmer yeah raised farm all my life what
age would you say you started helping
out on the farm well when you were quite
young buy started driving the tractor
and haul all the grain from the combine
at 12 yeah yeah as soon as we
could push the clutch in and change
gears we had the job yet to go and so is
farming something that you enjoyed right
from the get-go or it was kind of just
the thing to do
oh well it's the thing to do you're
brought up to it but yeah you enjoy it
mm-hmm your own boss you know you got
dude to work but you have your own
schedule too yeah yeah key and then you
also when you're on the farm you have
all these cats and dogs which are kind
of special for fun their fondness
whenever of the action what they do yeah
all right so my dad's got his truck
started and we're gonna take you on a
little tour of Hafford
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so obviously we're in the quarantine
right now too so yeah things are a lot
quieter the grocery store is still open
Hafford fine foods and the liquor store
is also probably open right yeah we got
the pharmacy and Hafford cafe looks
closed credit union that's a local bank
seniors hall and this here is I forget
what they do here okay yeah and here's
their insurance agency plus the liquors
okay kind of weird that the insurance
agency would be with the liquor store in
a small town that I found anyway is you
really get to know each other really
well
cuz you're literally with the same 15
people for 12 or 13 years if you count
kindergarten as I hear in the bigger
schools I don't personally know because
I've never been
they usually actually go to like one
certain elementary school then they go
to a middle school then they go to like
high school I think I think I think
those are the three levels yeah so in a
small town not only are you in a very
close-knit community where everybody
knows everyone and thinks they know
everything about everyone but you
basically spend your whole you know
education with the same people every day
strangely enough Hafford actually has a
mini sort of hospital where they have
one doctor really a nurse practitioner
to do the very basics of health care but
just behind it here they do have a
senior's slash nursing home
so this is actually quite special for a
small community to have and as you guys
can see they actually got a Ukrainian
Catholic Church here in the town because
Saskatchewan in general about probably
70 years ago or so was giving a lot of
immigration proposals to people from
Ukraine so there's actually a lot of
Ukrainians besides me who live in
Saskatchewan and just the prairies here
in Canada in general and as you can see
they've built a lot of their own
churches here as well
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I just forgot it yeah oh you can do that
too
himself
they tell me that it's warm down there
they tell me that there's people I
should me already down another suitcase
take my guitar
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kidnap some wave and rft you
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all right guys we're with my dad's
friend friend Clarence and he is a
wonderful musician and Clarence since
we're talking about living in a small
town of what brought you here like why
did you choose this town a small town as
opposed to the small town and raised on
a farm and yeah but you've played music
like all your life to all kinds of bands
polka bands rock-and-roll bands country
bands yeah so where do you see your
music like or where would you like to
see it go in the future like would you
like to do like live shows would you
like to put out an album or would you
like to do with it
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and you write all your own stuff right
mm-hmm that's awesome well for anybody
interested we're gonna link Clarence's
YouTube channel in the description so
he's probably gonna have more stuff
coming up on there so if you want to
check out his stuff make sure you guys
click the link below
so the thing about small towns that I
think a lot of people wonder about is
what do people actually do for work
outside of them just being a farmer in
case they have land so what would you
say and Hafford like what would people
do as a job well there's a grocery store
a farmer's feed a bank I insurance
agency the liquor store and then there's
a nice eating place or restaurant and
then on the north side of the highway
there's there's one gas station on the
west side and then there's the other
side they got the co-op agro and they
deliver fuel and got hardware they hired
quite a few people there just probably
six or eight people or more than working
there but overall you'd say in these
kinds of parts and in like small towns
in Saskatchewan in general most people
have something to do with agriculture
yes but in the small towns they'll be
quite a few senior people oh yeah
because it's a cheaper place to live but
they also have a school here from grades
1 to 12 yeah so they have that many
school teachers too true that's
interesting because you've always said
that back in your day there were so many
people that lived out on the farm or
lived in smaller sort of communities but
now it's becoming less and less because
people are choosing to
to the big cities even here in
Saskatchewan we have Saskatoon so these
smaller towns are getting even smaller
yeah well deaf farmers are getting so
much bigger so there's not many people
living out in the country
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as you guys can see there is still snow
on the ground it's basically the end of
April and yeah this is Saskatchewan
weather in a nutshell
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so I hope you guys enjoyed today's video
this was life in a small town / rural
Saskatchewan let me know in the comments
down below what you guys thought and if
you've ever been to Saskatchewan I would
love to know and I think I'm gonna try
and do one more video while I'm here
probably more on farming because I think
that's actually a fascinating and very
crazy profession so we'll get my dad's
input on those types of things because
there's a lot of factors that I don't
think people ever consider when they
think about farmers so I think that
would be an interesting video and just
in a few days I'm actually gonna be
heading back to Toronto to my home
things in Canada are getting better I
think as it is in the whole world
thankfully so I'm hoping that trend
continues so I'll be able to start
planning an actual trip for sometime
this year and just on that note I wanted
to give a big shout out to my amazing
patreon patrons the people who are
supporting me on there like thank you so
much especially in this period because
this is not what exactly I had planned
so thank you so much for supporting me
on there and if you do enjoy my content
please consider supporting me on patreon
I will put a link in the description and
other than that I hope you guys are
having an amazing day keeping your own
kind of beautiful and I will see you
soon bye guys
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