 In Canada , he worked in the oil fields near Sarnia , Ontario , and as a farmer in Weston , Ontario . He married Elizabeth Harris on February 28 , 1900 . The couple had two sons , Franklin Harris Greenfield and Arnold Leake Greenfield . In 1904 , the family went west for economic reasons and homesteaded near Edmonton . He found work in a lumber mill and later turned to farming . During his first year in Alberta , a fire destroyed his home , and he and his wife spent the winter in an abandoned sod hut . In 1906 , they resettled to a large home four kilometers south of Westlock . 
