Barren fields - Old Homes
J. Trapp's Residence - Veregin, SK.
A new arrival locating in Sherbrook District, SK.
Team of horses pulling equipment
1906 - Viscount, SK - Jago Homestead
Starting for the homestead - 1904
Arthur Stanley-Jones' Homestead - 1907
Arthur Stanley-Jones' Homestead - 1907
Arthur Stanley-Jones' Homestead - 1907
Arthur Stanley-Jones' Homestead - 1908
Arthur Stanley-Jones' Homestead - 1908
Arthur Stanley-Jones' Homestead - 1908
Immigrant women whitewashing a log building.
Doukhobor home, with seven adults standing in front. Other such structures nearby suggest this is a village. Mud roofs have timbers protruding at eaves.
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.
Woman seated on log in front of pole fence and traditional Doukhobor home with plastered, white-washed walls and sod roof. Located in early Doukhobor villages in Sask. possibility in community west of Langham and south of river.
Frank Tyhurst of Kensmith area (near Biggar) writing at table in log house. A bachelor, he homesteaded on S.E. 1/4 16-38-14, on which Kensmith School was built. His one-room house was built from logs and plastered with clay. Various household items in view.
Frank Tyhurst on skiis in front of his log house in Kensmith area (near Biggar)
John I. Wood - Erwood, SK.
Russian Jews. Old and new homesteads - Yorkton, SK.
Swan River, Man. - End of steel. The Doukhobor men spent the first years in Canada as railway construction workers.
Road building on the Doukhobor community estate - Veregin, SK.
Doukhobors threshing the first grain harvest.
Homestead rush, land office - Moose Jaw, SK.
Settlers who left farms in the "dry belt" areas in southern Saskatchewan moving along No. 4 Highway north of Battleford into the Meadow Lake - Loon Lake district
Doukhobor women are shown breaking the prairie sod by pulling a plough themselves, Thunder Hill Colony - Thunder Hill, Man.
Doukhobor ox cart - Veregin, SK.
Honey house and bee-keeping supplies - see ice house below
"My dad hauled tar paper, lumber and food stuffs from Saskatoon."
"The homestead home of my father and mother, Andrew and Laura Todd, built in 1900 - 4 miles from Milestone, SK. then NWT. My sister, brother and I were all born here - 1903, 1905 and 1901."
Wagon with shack built on it, followed by another carrying household goods on the move from Morse to Carrot River.
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.
This sod house is of a special nature as it has a shingled roof....very unusual for a home of this type.
Note this home had a board roof covered with sod.
This was a postcard to send home to your family.
Women and dogs outside of wooden home.
Family in front of log home with shingled roof.
W.T. Logan - First morning in the homestead near Beadle, SK.
Farm woman in front of sod home.
Family outside a log home with a sod roof.
Clay plastered home banked with dirt held with a log fence.
Stone and mud house with sod roof, on road to North Battleford to Saskatoon
Mother and children in front to wooden home.
Dear Margaret,
I thought I would like to send you a postcard as your mama has talked of you so much I feel I really know you. This picture shows what some of the houses are like out West. Don't you think it looks funny? I guess you wouldn't like to live in it.
Building the first portion of Arthur Stanley-Jones' homestead cabin - 1907, near Meota Lake.
One end of the cabin - unmarried
Cooking end of the cabin - unmarried
Now married - a new section added on to original cabin
Inside of new part of cabin - view on wall on right hand side of doorway. Note carpet on the floor and board floor - now married.
New section take from just inside the door. Note table against the end of the wall - now married.
Final rush for homesteads in Yorkton, SK. The land rush occurred after many Doukhobors left Saskatchewan for British Columbia.
Final rush for homesteads
Mrs. Violet McNaughton, with her husband John, in front of their sod house near Harris, SK.
Bon Bernard and Steward Bryson turned a wagon upside down for a temporary home at Saskatoon - 1902.
Old and New Homesteads - 5 miles north of Kamsack, SK.
