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Mike Stobbs Will Be Hosting An Exhibit At The Shaunavon Museum In Sept 2012.
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Steve Kapcsos Sr. left the Hungarian Calvary in 1929 to fulfill a dream of owning his own farm in Canada. After working as a farm labourer in Saskatchewan for a year then renting land, in Hillspring, Alberta, he bought 160 acres from the Horniak’s on the edge of Strawberry Lake where he and his family struggled to succeed in mixed farming through harsh conditions of The Great Depression and WWII.
In 1938, Steve and a neighbour hauled pine logs from the base of Old Chief Mountain with which to construct a 17x27 two room log house. In the early 1940s Steve Sr. acquired the C.P.R. waiting room, moved from Parkbend, Alberta and converted into an add on bedroom where Steve Jr. slept without heat. In this house, they raised 5 children without running water or power and the children commuted to school on horse back in the early years. He earned the nickname “Honest Steve” for his principled way of life and hard work ethic. While harvesting sugar beets by hand in the fall of 1946, he was struck in the back by a stray bullet from a nearby duck hunter. This contributed to his death in April 1948 only two years after buying another ¼ section of land from the United Irrigation District.
After his death, his wife Margit and son Steve Jr. struggled to pay off the farm and raise the family. Margit sold the farm in 1972 after 50 years of sweat and toil raising crops and a family south of Hillspring, Alberta in the shadow of the Rockies. The original house was moved a hundred yards west of the original site in the 1980s to build a new house on it’s site. The log house was used for storage until it fell over in 2008, lasting for 70 years.
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