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From Broad Axe to Clay Chinking
Reid Lake Area
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On the Reid Lake Road, about a mile in off the Ness Lake Road, is a neat little old house sitting in amongst the poplar trees. This was once owned by the Scott family who came from Rock Glen in the Wood Mountain area of Saskatchewan. They homesteaded on the Reid Lake Road in the late 1920's or very early 1930's but by the mid 1940's they had left and moved to the north Okanagan area.
Both George Scott and his wife were up in years, close to seventy, so all the family did was build a house, and clear some land. George had an old team of horses. Once in awhile he would buy a couple of pigs to use for his own meat until a bear got to them and that ended that. One son, Clyde, had a quarter section directly opposite his parent’s farm. Wilbur, the oldest son went to Enderby. In the fall of 1938, there was no work around, so the boys went down to the Vernon - Enderby country picking fruit. They thought there was more chance of getting employment down there and none of them ever came back. The parents had sold out by then also. There were three girls but they married and left too. The house was deserted and I don’t know whether anybody lived in it after that, although the land was sold.
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