1900-1910

Russian Jews. Old and new homesteads - Yorkton, SK.

Threshing machine in operation - St. Walburg, SK.

Immigrants awaiting medical examination

This looks like an immigrant train somewhere on the prairies.

This sod house is of a special nature as it has a shingled roof - very unusual for a home of this size.

Oxen team on the Canadian Prairies. These oxen are in very good condition.

"The homestead home of my father and mother, Andrew and Laura Todd, built in 1900 - 4 miles west of Milestone, SK - then NWT. My brother, sister, and I were all born here - 1905, 1903, and 1901."

The 'City of Prince Albert' ready for a pleasure cruise.

Curling - This was possibly in England. Game brought to Canada.

Probably southern Alberta or Saskatchewan

Doukhobor women hitched to a breaking plow, with a man guiding the plow. The women are in blouses and long peasant-style skirts, with pointed headgear. This photo was reportedly taken in the Blaine Lake area around the turn of the century. The custom of women pulling plows has been attributed to lack of resources to buy draft animals and the absence of their menfolk, who were often away working at other jobs.

Doukhobor ox cart - Veregin, SK.

Scarth Street - Regina, SK.

Moose Jaw's welcome to their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall & York.

John I. Wood - Erwood, SK.

Bon Bernard and Steward Bryson turned a wagon box upside down for a temporary home at Saskatoon.

Method of moving supplies to the Doukhobor communal villages - Yorkton, Sask.

Grain cutting at Moose Jaw, SK.

The Doukhobor pilgirms carrying their helpless - Yorkton, Assiniboia, N.W.T.

Doukhobor pilgrims leaving Yorkton to evangelize the world - Yorkton, Assiniboia, N.W.T.

Theodor Moeller's steam engine threshing outfit. First traction steam engine in Strasbourg, SK. area.

White tents of Barr Colonists beside railway track. Historic sites plaque on Spadina Crescent West commemorates spot where colonists camped for two weeks. Some 1500 travelled from Liverpool bound for homesteads near Lloydminster.

On board ship from England

Ship enroute to Canada

Barr Colonists on ship board, Rev.Isaac Barr seated and Rev. G.E. Lloyd second from left.

Barr Colonists at Saskatoon - The two teams shown were Saskatoon's first cartage line owned by George Potter who is standing on the right of the nearest day.

Main Street

Site of first territorial capital - Battleford. Taken looking across the Battle River.

Barr colonist camp, Saskatoon

Barr colonists with many wagons by CPR railyards in Saskatoon. Grain elevator in background.

Barr Colonists - Saskatoon

"One of the Past"

Chief Peepin - Maple Creek, N.W.T.

"He Shows His Blood"

SS Wawota about to embark

Starting for the homestead

Ferry crossing

Prince Albert

Ira and Harriet Burrows family and friends in front of temporary home, Saskatoon, winter 1905. The Burrows arrived from Manitou, Manitoba, homesteaded in Perdue area following spring. This house located near railyards (Midtown Plaza 1988). Family later returned to live on 4th Avenue.

Students of Melness School near Floral seated at desks with teacher at blackboard in background.

Doukhobor village along Canadian northern Railway - likely in the vicinity of Verigan, SK.

An encampment near Saskatoon.

Three horses pulling a 2-wheel 'sulky' plow. Fall plowing on the prairies.

Compound engine driving thresher

- Building the first portion of the homestead cabin of Stanley-Jones near Meota

Sask 'N' River Pioneer Steamer

Photograph of steamboat - 'Saskatchewan' - owned by Hudson Bay Co.

Delivery wagons proceeding up the bank from the steamboat and barge.

Dundurn, SK

CP Rail road making outfit someplace on the prairies.

Doukhobor village - Along the Canadian Northern Railway likely near Verigan, SK,

North Battleford

Mrs. Violet McNaughton with her husband John, in front of their sod house near Harris, SK.

Saskatoon - Nutana

Hilda Swedburg, daughter of a Swedish-American settler, in her kitchen in the Marchwell district.

Saskatoon

Viscount, SK. - Jago Homestead

" My dad hauled tar paper, lumber and food stuffs from Saskatoon."

Women and children seated in shade of impromptu shelter of teepee poles draped with cloth or leather on side of an ox-cart. Inscribed " in the lee of a Red River cart". One woman holds infant bundled in papoose-fashion. Probably taken near Saskatoon.

One end of the cabin - unmarried

Cooking end of the cabin - unmarried

Now married - a new section was added on to the original cabin.

Now married - Inside of the new part of the cabin - Note the wall at the rear of the cabin and carpet on floor and board floor.

Now married - new section taken from just inside the door - note the table against the end of the wall.

Picnic Party at Narrow Lake

The Handford Schoolhouse

Final Rush for homesteads - Yorkton

Final rush for homesteads

Homeseekers who kept vigil for 40 hours for Doukhobors land.

View of J. Powell's farm - Kenaston, SK.

Part of a threshing outfit that came west from Ontario. Note: the centre building is the cookhouse and the building on the left is the bunkhouse.

Main Street, looking south - Moose Jaw, SK.

Crescent Playgrounds - Moose Jaw, SK.

View from Moose Jaw Railway Station looking north.

Wreck of S.S. CITY OF MEDICINE HAT - Saskatoon, SK.

Homestead rush, land office - Moose Jaw, SK.

Breaking near Moose Jaw, SK.

Studio portrait of Dakota (Sioux) woman [possibly the wife of Sitting Eagle, last Dakota Peace Chief of Turtle Mountain]

Alexandra School - Moose Jaw, SK.

Wolseley, SK.

The teacher and some of the pupils of the Winona School, forty miles west of Saskatoon. Note the thickness of the walls.

Viscount, SK.

Floral, SK.

Estevan, SK.

Muskrat trapping - setting the trap.

Francis, SK.

Sturgeon Lake district or up near Big River

Two years after her third reconstruction, the William Pearson Co. steam Qu'Apelle takes time out from her landseeker tours around Last Mountain Lake, SK to entertain new American residents,

Lumber from Wisconsin to Saskatchewan was taken by wagon to Cudworth.

"A" squadron near Saskatoon

Near Scott, SK.

The extraordinary size of the sod house with the well laid 'cottage' roof is outstanding. Very few of this size were to be seen on the Canadian Prairies. Note also the two sod barns.

Note this home had a board roof covered with sod.

Children at Millbrooke School - south of Khedino, SK.

On the prairies

Johnston family leaving Delisle for Saskatoon.

Immigrants skipping while en route to Canada aboard S.S. EMPRESS of Britain.

Hanley, SK.

Macklin, SK.

Land seekers leaving for the Tramping Lake district - Scott, SK.

Cutting and stooking on Fred Engen's farm

Farm of A. Buhler - Warman, SK.

Small child astride painted wooden rocking horse in yard; another on platform forming rocker.

View of Gull Lake, SK.