"The atmosphere at Estevan was formal. Some found it severe. "Mrs. Reford had a way with her that wouldn't let you be too friendly," remembers Evelyn Annett, whose father, Ernest Bufton, was the butler at Estevan... But she was an extraordinary person very interested in politics and business-not many women were in those days. And, of course she lived for her gardens." George Galt, "A Gardener's Dream", The Imperial Oil Review, 1996