machinery. In 1946, he purchased a one-way disc, a tractor and a two-ton truck; the beginning of mechanized farming. The fourth child of Alphonse and Margaret was Fred Fornwald born in 1930. Fred married Evelyn Fieber in 1954 and began farming, as well as raising seven children; six boys, Leslie, Danny, Brian, Terry, Calvin, Blair and one daughter, SherryLynn. In their early years, Fred and Evelyn operated a mixed farm which consisted of grain, beef and dairy. As the boys began to grow up and expressed interest in farming, the mixed farm became mainly a dairy with some beef cows. Fred and the boys constructed a new dairy barn with a one hundred and fifty cow capacity and in 1974; the farm was turned into a limited company, Fred Fornwald & Sons Farms Limited. The dairy, a registered Holstein herd, operated under the trade name of Lampada Holsteins. The program was highly successful and exhibited throughout Canada and the United States. In 2001, Lampada Holsteins were awarded the Master Breeders Shield by the Canadian Holstein Association. Lampada Holsteins have won All-Western breeders herd on numerous occasions, have had many All-Western winners and a host of nominees. Lampada Star Dust Rose was awarded All-American Three Year old and Reserve All- Canadian in the same year. The 2007 All-Canadian Senior Two Year Old was won by Benner Leduc Jo Lyn, owned by Lampada. Lampada Holsteins rapidly rose and became a household name in dairy circles. Blair Fornwald the youngest son of Fred and Evelyn has lived his entire life on the farm maintaining the tradition of prior generations. Aside from getting an education and farming, he loved hockey and played as a goalie for Lampman as a kid and later with the senior team. Blair met Laurel Hildebrandt in Estevan, and they married in the spring of 1983. Laurel was born in Regina, but at the age of three her family moved to Vancouver where she grew up as a city girl, blissfully unaware of farm life, except for stories told to her by her mother, about life on a farm just outside of Lampman. Laurel had no idea of what went into raising cattle...she just knew that meat was purchased at the grocery store and found its way onto her dinner plate. Laurel visited relatives in 2 - Meadow Acres Farms Dispersal
Lampman each summer and after graduation, came to live with her grand-mother in Estevan; by fall she decided to get a job and stay for a while‌she never left, married Blair and together raised three children. The oldest, Dustin, born in 1983, loved farming from the start and was Blair’s shadow. He was very active in sports; ball in the summer months and hockey in the winter. He competed at provincial level in both sports and was part of the team that won the provincials in hockey during his last year of minor hockey. At the Sask. Proud Sale in December of 2005 he met Kirsten Spence, a Hereford girl from Outlook, Saskatchewan and they married in July, 2008. They have two beautiful daughters: Brenna and Britt, making seven generations of the Fornwald family in Canada. Dustin and Kirsten purchased and reside on the original Henry Fornwald homestead. Their daughter, Ashton was born in 1986. Independent and stubborn (like her father), she left home right after graduation. She attended the University/College of the Frazer Valley, Abbottsford, British Columbia for two years, and then relocated to Halbrite, Saskatchewan where she currently is a lead operator for Gibson Custom Treating. She married Michael Adderley and has a daughter Peyton. Like her older brother, Ashton was very sports minded playing both ball and hockey. She competed on a provincial level in both sports losing in a provincial hockey final on a very controversial call. The youngest, Darnell was born in 1989, liked cattle, but thought sitting on a tractor was boring. He attended Lakeland College in Vermilion, Alberta for two years, and then accepted a job as a herd health manager at a feedlot in southern Alberta. There, he met Morgan Luhoff and they were married in April 2012. The couple lives in Coaldale, Alberta and Darnell works on a dairy operation. Sports is in the family blood, as Darnell competed in ball, hockey and in Tae Kwon Do as far afield as Quebec.