• History

    “Hundreds of babies and not one lost.” The story of Hannah Gibb, Raymond’s first midwife.

    Raymond was closer to dream than reality when Hannah Gibb arrived with her 9 children in September of 1901. It had only been two weeks since the site was dedicated for a town and the only completed building was a small lean-to blacksmith shop. It would be another two weeks before the first house was ready to be moved into. Yet here she was with all her belongings, a tent, a few cattle and 9 kids. Hannah had sold her home in Utah and loaded 5 of her children all her belongings on train to Canada. She sent four of the older boys alone to bring the cattle. Hannah was…