MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES At this site the first Company of
Latter-day Saint settlers entered Canada on the 1st of June
1887. They paused here where a stone cairn marked the
International Boundary. In a driving rain, each member of the
group of eight families added a rock to the pile, and they all
gave three cheers for their new home and religious freedom. In
the United States there was at the time anti-mormon activity
such that some members of the church felt themselves to be in
danger. On the advice of Church leaders in Salt Lake City, Utah,
an exploring expedition the previous autumn had located a new
settlement site for them. Early in the spring the President of
the enterprise, Charles Ora Card, returned with an advance party
to establish the first colony at what is now Cardston. The main
body of the group left northern Utah on the 3rd April 1887.
President Card met them near Helena, Montana, to guide them
home. After passing here, they continued through a late snow
storm, arriving at the site of Cardsto