Then on preparing to leave met a figure just coming up the hill. Here it was my old friend Marinus DeBruin. He was just up in the area to see how much it has changed since his family first arrived in Canton.
They lived in what had been Harry Rockwell's farmhouse. It was just off what is now Sterling Road. We had the longest and most rewarding conversation. Once when we both were working at the mill they had purchased a new small stake truck and wanted to have wooden sides built for it. We had stored away some rough-cut oak lumber which we took over to Bournes Mill and had it surfaced. We built all the stakes and when finished it pleased us so we didn't paint it but varnished it.
Marinus has always been a great worker, at the mill, on his farm and with his trucking business. It meant so much to me that he purposely stopped and came up into the woodlot just to see me and reminisce.