by Temp AITC | Mar 12, 2021
Fires in the early 1900s were very dangerous and could more easily get out of control because flammable material such as straw was used to insulate houses and barns. Settlers didn’t have the modern equipment that exists now to fight fires with huge firetrucks full of...
by Temp AITC | Mar 11, 2021
PHOTO CREDIT: WESTERN DEVELOPMENT MUSEUM This photo was taken of a settler turning prairie sod in 1903. As you can see, there is a clear difference between the prairie of grass and the dirt right next to it that has been broken up with the plow that is being pulled by...
by Temp AITC | Mar 11, 2021
PHOTO CREDIT: WESTERN DEVELOPMENT MUSEUM A log home could be built if a settler had dense trees on their land that could be cut down to use as a building material. This photo was taken in 1903, but the shack was built many years before that, around the...
by Temp AITC | Mar 9, 2021
When doctors visited their patients at their homes, it was called a house call. This is the inside of a medicine bag that doctors would bring on house calls. It is a leather bag that has several glass bottles of herbs, tinctures, medicines, and...
by Temp AITC | Mar 9, 2021
PHOTO CREDIT: WESTERN DEVELOPMENT MUSEUM Many mothers and their children had to make the journey to Canada without their husbands. Husbands would go ahead to set up the homesteads and have their families join them after some essentials were set...
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