Sarah Miles, mother of Tommy and Angus (72 and 75 respectively)
The first time Sarah left Fort Severn it was in a Cesna 185 with skis. It took off from the river Severn just in front of the where the Northern Store was at that time. The plane didn't travel very fast so Sarah, who was pregnant with Tommy, stayed over in Big Trout Lake. She arrived in Sioux Lookout the following day. She spent more then a full month there, having left in January and returned home on March 9th. It was very hard for her, not only; was she far away from her family for a long time, she was also in a completely new environment.

When she arrived she didn't know anything about Sioux Lookout. She didn't speak any english and there was no interpreter working at the hospital. To make matters worse, she didn't know anybody in Sioux Lookout then. Peggy Sanders would visit her often and helped her to understand what was going on. Eventually she got back to her home in Fort Severn with her newborn son Tommy. When she came back the second time, she knew a little english and knew what to expect in the hospital. By her third trip she had learned enough that she was relatively comfortable when she came to give birth to her third son Angus. When she went to Sioux Lookout to give birth to Angus she flew down in late September and was there for fifteen days, much less then she had been the first time.

Her son Tommy did a lot of hunting, even when he was very young. He loved to be out on the land and to be out of doors. He did go to school, although he always enjoyed being near nature rather then books. He finished up until Grade Eight while living in Fort Severn. He went to a residential school in Poplar Hill around 1986, he finished Grade Nine here. The following year he went to Pelican Falls near Sioux Lookout, he didn't like being away from home and returned to Fort Severn near Christmas time. The year after that he went to Queen Elizabeth district high school, he left within the first month and has stayed around Fort Severn ever since. He got his Heavy Equipment operators licence and he works seasonally. He does the winter road in the winter and drives the School bus and works for MTO in the summer. He got married in 1994 and has two children, with a third that is coming without a doubt. He is still very nature and hunting oriented, something which keeps him near Fort Severn.

Angus also hunts quite a bit, though not as much as Tommy did. Also like his brother he finished grade eight in his home community of Fort Severn. He was doing grade nine in fort severn at the same time that his brother was married in 1994. After grade Nine he took a year off so that he wouldn't need to leave his community so early. In 96 and 97 he attended Queen Elizabeth District high School finishing grades 10 and 11. He took another semester off at the beginning of the 98 school year, though he returned and did the second semester that year. His first child was born then too, in 1998. The year after he graduated from QEDHS and returned to Fort Severn with his child. Once back at home he worked in two different fields, he was a guide for tourists and he also worked as the computer technician on and off. In the beginning of 2000 his daughter was conceived and she was born August 2000. Just before that he accepted a full-time job with K-net doing computer type things. This is what he has been doing ever since, though he does get out hunting now and then, and acts as a guide when the opportunity presents itself.

Fort Severn is on the tree line, meaning that the people who live there can hunt either below it, for things like moose and muskrat or above it for caribou and seals. Although the Fort Severn from the Hudson Bay Company has existed for two and a half centuries, the people of Fort Severn were semi-nomadic until very recently, around 1974. There is still a lot of game around the area so hunting remains an important way to supplement the diets of the residents.