IMMIGRATION
AND SETTLEMENT
Background
Information
Student Activities
Multimedia Items
(Photo Galleries, Movies, Interviews)
Related WWW Links
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Background
Information
 100
years of Immigration in Canada - Ethnicity
of Saskatoon and Regina - based on Census Data 2001
- Celebrating
the Arrival of the Barr Colonist (2MB). Saskatchewan
History Magazine, Spring 2003.
- Glasglow
to Battleford (719 KB) Excerpts from the narrative of
former Saskatoon Mayor, James Clinkskill (spans timer period
of 1882-1912). Published in the Saskatchewan History Magazine,
Vol I, Number 1, January 1948.
- The
Mounted Police and the Doukhobors in Saskatchewan, 1889-1909
(5MB)by Carle Betke. Saskatchewan History Magazine.
Vol. XXVII, Winter 1974, No.1.
- Soldier
Settlement in the Prairie Provinces (2 MB)by E. C. Morgan.
Saskatchewan History Magazine, Vol. XX1, No. 2, Spring 1968.
-
The
Unenviable Circumstances of Women in Saskatchewan Before 1920
- Learn more about the women who helped settle the prairies.
- Journals
/ Reflections
 Alice
Rendell Letters.(32 pages)
These letters tell of Mrs. Rendell's experience as a member
of the Barr colony, early days of settlement, and the first
Christmas at Lloydminster. Saskatchewan Archives A-206.
The letters can be printed off individually below.
Student
Activities
- Immigration:
A "Choose Your Own" Adventure - Can you survive?
As you move across Canada to make home on the prairies, see
if any of your decisions will prove catastrophic! Can you
avoid death by starvation, fire, or brutally cold weather?
- Pioneer
Settlement - Wordsearch (Easier)
- This search contains words related to the settlement of
Saskatchewan.
- The
Odyssey of our Ancestors - This activity leads students
to travel along the same migration paths that immigrants to
Canada have taken. They can choose immigrants from different
time periods and follow their journeys to and within
Canada. During the activity the students will make decisions
and learn the consequences of their choices. They can do this
activity alone or with a partner.
- Pack
Up and Go! -This game introduces students to the push-pull
factors that have prompted former immigrants to leave their
country of origin and choose Canada as their new home. Students
will match time periods to the appropriate push and pull factors.
They will also place the arrival of their own ancestors into
a time period and compare their ancestors’ experiences with
that of others in the same time period. Once the online chart
is completed, students can print out their ancestors, place
in time.
WEBQUESTS
- Who
Wants to be a Pioneer? (WEBQUEST) - Using information
obtained from the Internet, student teams, known as Colonies,
will construct questions in a style similar to those found
on the television program "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
Once the questions are constructed and refined, each Colony
will participate in a trial run of their own game show.
With this experience behind each colony, they will refine
their questions and answers and begin playing the game show
again with a real audience, complete with commercials they
have created and produced.
Multimedia
Items (Photo Galleries, Interviews, Movies)
 Home
Sweet Home: This 14 minute presentation explores the homes
of the early 1900's and looks at the evolution of the prairie
home from soddy to shack. Content and images provided by the
Saskatchewan Western Development Museum. To exit the presentation
at any time, hit ESC. There is also a Word
search based on this presentation.
 Immigration
and Settlement - This
30 minute movie discusses the various reasons why people immigrated
to Canada and on to Saskatchewan. The presentation contains
many excerpts from "real" immigration stories published
on the Pier21.ca website.
Saskatchewan
Stories: This web site was created for grade four social
studies and has many videos and additional resources worthy
of viewing. We have included the videos here for you in (French
& English)
Related
WWW Links
- The
Last Best West - Advertising for immigrants to Western
Canada, 1870-1930.
- Soddie
(Histor!ca - Heritage Minute)
- Western
Land Grants,
(1870-1930) (ArchiviaNet, National Archives of Canada)
- Settling
the West - A look at Canadian
government efforts to populate the Canadian West in the early
1900s. Part of the National Archives of Canada exhibition
"The Canadian West."
- Learn
more about the Doukhobors
at Civilization.ca
- Saskatchewan
Ethnic Cultural Network - this site features information
on the various ethnic groups that settled in Saskatchewan.
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