The Matke's Incredible Journey - Part Two

(please read part one of the post below)

The ship the Matzkes sailed on was the Cassandra. In a 1980 letter to me my aunt Caroline told me the ship was beautiful and it sank during the First World War. Here is a picture of the Cassandra:

From the Library and Archives Canada website

The family sailed from Glasgow on July 4th 1914, bound for Quebec and Montreal. Here is the boarding list:

From the National Archives London website www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Their last name was misspelled and they are listed as citizens of Austria. The boarding list tells me they sailed from Antwerp, Belgium to Leith, Scotland via the Gibson Steamship Line. I wasn't able to identify a ship they may have boarded in Antwerp but this was a common route.

The journey took 9 days, ending in Quebec city on July 13th 1914

From ancestry.ca, Library and Archives Canada

They are correctly listed as Romanian on this list. What strikes me as odd is the fact that their destination is listed as MacNutt Saskatchewan. How in the world out of all the places in Canada did they choose that tiny town? Only 80 people live there now, not many more in it's heyday. Wish I'd thought to ask my grandmother about her family's journey to Canada when she was still here.