 Although they tried growing crops, sheep farming, dairy farming and sawmilling, a sustainable existence proved elusive, largely because it was extremely difficult to get their goods to market given a change in the Provincial Government and a devaluation of the Canadian dollar during the depression.The delayed local development and frustrating access to markets caused all members of the group to move elsewhere or return to Estonia by 1932.Landmarks around Fort St. James still bear their name (e.g.