Lynn and family left Minnesota shortly after Adelia’s funeral in March 1922 and returned to Saskatchewan. Lynn was now unemployed so the family moved into the original log buildings on Dave Strachan’s homestead. The farm was doing well and Dave and Suzie, Grace’s mother, had moved onto a purchased quarter closer to the village of Brada and the thriving town of North Battleford. Dad talks about how Auntie Bee thought it was a great adventure and spent “hours at play outdoors with her toys placed strategically, for whatever imaginary game, on the extended ends of the logs at the corners of the house.”

That same summer Grace’s Grandpa Barker died but it was far too costly to travel to Cove, Oregon for the funeral. Grace was raised by her grandparents and she was a favourite of her Grandpa. Dad reports that Auntie Bee remembers her sitting on a log and crying for ages at the loss. He also remembers a story of his Dad, Lynn, going out into a severe snow storm to find Grandpa Barker as he walked back from North Battleford to the Strachan farm. Eventually he found him “in what limited shelter he could find behind a telephone pole”. Later Lynn was amused that Octavo never seemed to feel the cold unless someone told him the temperature.

From that time on Lynn worked on the Strachan farm. At that time it was doing well with four quarters of land, ”adequate machinery and a fine group of Clydesdales to power it.” A farm that size at that time was a labor intensive operation. Lynn was good with machinery and took over the maintenance and repairs of the increasing number of machines on the farm. The 1920s brought bountiful harvests and a tractor and 1925 model T Ford touring car were added to the farm.