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William Aberhart was born December 30, 1878 in Tuckersmith Township ( now part of Huron East, Ontario ) to William ( c. 1844 – 1910 ) and Louisa ( c. 1850 – 1944 ) ( née Pepper ) Aberhart.

William Aberhart Sr. had immigrated to Canada from Germany with his family at the age of seven, while Louisa Pepper was born in Perth County, Ontario.

Historian Harold Schultz describes the Aberharts as " prosperous ", while biographers David Elliott and Iris Miller says they " lived better than the average family ".

The fourth of eight children, William Aberhart Jr. delivered milk to his father's customers before school each day.

At school, he was a hard-working but average student.

Mathematics was one of his strengths, though his approach involved more rote learning than reasoning.

Elliott and Miller suggest that this tendency stayed with him his entire life, and that he " never really acquired an appreciation for inductive intellectual analysis ".

Aberhart was not a social child.

Though he excelled at soccer, he generally preferred solitary pursuits such as reading or teaching himself to play musical instruments.