I think that a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born to the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen children, is good quality

Clifford Sifton, Canada's Minister of the Interior from 1896 to 1905,

Baba came to canada to escape the poverty but also because her parents had arranged for her to marry the friend of a cousin of her dad in Alberta.