Maude McGregor was the wife of Arthur McGregor and the mother of Alexander and Julia McGregor and Mary McGregor Pomeroy, all but one of whom she outlived. She lived most of her life on a farm south of Rosenfeld, Manitoba, Canada, which she worked by herself after her husband's death and her daughters' growing up. However, she had also seen Winnipeg and had a sense of the metropolitan. In 1943, she could do nothing but watch as US soldiers advanced north past her farm en route to Rosenfeld, much as she had thirty years before.