Barbara Aiken Munneke
In the early 1950’s, big changes came to the Line. As word came, a highway was going through and families were asked to take in the men who were going to work on this new road, the 115 highway. As the highway was being built, good quality acreage was taken from productive farmland to make this new roadway, and our neighbours were faced with some very big changes to their land and lots of added stress.
The Line became a very busy place with trucks zooming up and down and strangers coming to our homes for us to feed and house. Lunches had to be made, beds done up and other meals prepared. Most households were busy with all the activity that these men brought to our community. Not forgetting all the dust that their activity made, The Line became rough with the wear and tear of all those trucks flying by. Because the gravel pit was behind our farm, we watched the activity first hand. Thankfully, we had a very large kitchen table where we would set out loaves of bread to make sandwiches for our crew of men. In later years, the Millbrook Jail was being built, and again my parents took in some of the workers who were building the facility.
