Margaret Stevens was born in 1907 and was a young adult living in Ontario when the Great Depression started in 1929. Margaret enlisted in 1942; at the time, she was listed as a student. She met her future husband, Eddie, when Margaret was training for the Canadian Women Army Corps at Barriefield, Ontario, where Eddie was stationed at the time. After the war, Eddie and Margaret married in 1946 and farm on land obtained through the Veteran’s Land Act. Their farm was located south of Huallen in the Wembley area. In the 1950s, they moved to Salmon Arm, where they lived until Margaret passed away in 1999.
