After Pluma’s death, Percy spent a few months living with each of his children’s families. When he was faced with health problems, Edna Fern and Ernest encouraged him to return to Canada where socialized medicine had recently been implemented. Percy had lived in the U.S. for almost twenty-five years, but because he had once been a Canadian citizen it was not difficult for him to obtain dual citizenship.

Percy first lived with Edna Fern and Ernest and was able to get a hip replacement to help improve his mobility after having lived with his disability for over sixty years. He then moved back to southern Saskatchewan and rented a small house in Wood Mountain, where he reconnected with his brother Ralph’s daughter, Dorothy Haverfield (Demich) and helped her out with the Demich family store.

He enjoyed his years back in the countryside where he had homesteaded and raised a family so many years before. Many of his friends from those years were still living in the area, including Aquina Anderson, Edna Fern’s mother-in-law. But after so many years of marriage, he was lonely for companionship and sought out a new wife.

In 1974, Percy began courting Mary Irnie, who had been a friend of his and Pluma’s during their time on their Rock Creek farm. Mary and her first husband, Glen Irnie, were from the Sister Butte area. They were married in Banff, Alberta, on February 14, 1975, and lived for ten years together in High River, Alberta.

Mary was embraced by all of Percy’s family, so that even after his death in 1985 his children and many of his grandchildren continued to correspond with her and even visit her in High River. Mary passed away in 1999 and is buried in a High River cemetery.