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Settlers outside a tent-shaped shack.
Settlers outside a tent-shaped shack with wooden sides in a grassy field, with cattle, wagons and chickens mingled amongst homesteaders. Woman with small child stands in opening that constitutes doorway. Stove pipe protrudes from makeshift front draping of tent. Inscribed "first home in Saskatchewan"
Photographer: City Studio.
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Man, woman and baby outside homestead shack at Sutherland.
Man, woman and baby (possibly Blackley family) outside homestead shack at Sutherland. Geese and dog in yard. This may be the first home of the Rolph family.
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Triple-tiered sod shack.
Triple-tiered sod shack with chimney. Photo labelled "No place like home." It appears to have glass windows and a wooden door, both inset. No people are in evidence.
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Unidentified family pose outside their long sod house.
Image depicts an unidentified family posed outside their long sod house. A man is seated and holding two small children standing in front of him. A woman, probably his wife, stands beside man with one hand on the back of man's chair.
Date: [ca. 1883].
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Map of the Temperance Colony.
Map of the Temperance Colony as printed in publicity brochure in 1883, with inset maps of Canada and proposed "City of Saskatoon". Indian reservations, railway lines, trails and physical features drawn in. (Black and white version of coloured original is misleading)
Date: 1883.
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Illustration copied from Temperance Colonization Society pamphlet.
Illustration copied from Temperance Colonization Society pamphlet showing idealized future city of Saskatoon, to lure settlers here. This "view of a North west city" more closely resembled a burgeoning industrial city in Britain than the infant Saskatoon settlement.
Date: 1883.
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Unidentified couple pose with seven children outside home at Duck Lake.
Unidentified couple pose with seven children outside home at Duck Lake. House is wooden building with many-paned glass window. Family is formally dressed. Name pencilled on back.
Date: [ca. 1885].
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Sod house.
Sod house built by Caswells in 1887 on homestead two miles North of Clark's Crossing and abandoned in 1893 after crop was taken off. People in photo are (l to r) Jessie Caswell (Mrs. A.E. Robertson), Gay Irvine (Mrs. F.A. Creasy), Min Caswell (Mrs. W. Colt), Lucy Donnon and Rube Allen, a comedian from the United States visiting here.
Date: fall 1893.
Photographer: Star Phoenix.
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Woman and dog.
Woman and dog stand in front of wood shack in winter.
Date: [ca. 1895].
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Sod house with woman and children in front.
Sod house (or school) with woman and six children in front. Children close in age which suggests it may be a school.
Date: [190-]. |
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Woman sitting beside her sewing machine.
Woman sitting beside her sewing machine. Photographs and plates on wall. Flowers on machine and fur rug on floor. Image suggests solitude and isolation of female homesteaders' lives.
Date: [ca. 190-].
Photographer: Jebson, Stanley. |
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Pierre BonBernard and Stewart Bryson pose in front of wagon.
Pierre BonBernard and Stewart Bryson pose in front of wagon box which they used as temporary lodging on arrival in Saskatoon (in 1902?). In background to left is Immigration Hall set up in 1901, and Saskatoon's first bridge which opened in 1890. In 1903 the city's population was only 113. Mr. BonBernard told the Star Phoenix in 1941 that this site was "a block or two west of the old QLL and S Bridge." They lived there for two weeks.
Date: 1902 ? or 1904 - 1905.
Photographer: Bate, William P.
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Indian encampment, with covered wagons in foreground.
Indian encampment, with covered wagons in foreground. Indians (wearing felt hats) are gathered in a circle in middle distance, while closer up several male settlers talk to an Indian male. A lone white woman and baby are seen at right.
Date: [ca. 1902-1903].
Photographer: Dill, Ralph.
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British camp. Saskatoon May, 1903.
Barr Colonist tent camp in "Saskatoon (Riverdale 1903)". Immigration Hall stands at the left. CPR tracks and train.
Date: 1903.
Photographer: Dill, Ralph.
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Barr Colonists with horses and wagons.
Barr Colonists ready to leave Saskatoon for Lloydminster district. Tents in background. Colonists with livestock and loaded wagons in foreground.
Date: 1903.
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Barr colonists with many wagons.
Barr colonists with many wagons by CPR railyards in Saskatoon. Grain elevator in background.
Date: 1903.
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Threshing scene.
Threshing scene on Henry Kusch homestead located near present (1990) airport, then outside Saskatoon. Threshing outfit was Albert Kusch's, father of Agnes Tessier. Photo brought in by Cyril Kusch, Henry's son.
Date: 1905.
Photographer: Lusk Studio.
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Series LH 1892 and LH 1892-1 of buggy pulled by mules in front of sod shacks near Saskatoon.
Series LH 1892 and LH 1892-1 of buggy pulled by mules in front of sod shacks near Saskatoon.
Date: [ca. 1905].
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Bachelors' shack on Avenue F at city's edge.
Bachelors' shack on Avenue F at city's edge. Austin Needham sits in doorway, with two other men leaning against shack. One other house visible on prairie.
Date: 1906.
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Images of early campers.
Series of images of early campers (some dressed in suits, ties and hats) lounging around tents pitched in Idylwyld area before it was settled. Possibly waiting for homesteads.
LH 2943-1 - several well-dressed men and one woman pose outside a tent
LH-2943-2 - men lounge outside a large tent. Flags fly from two tents.
LH-2943-3 - men sit and stand around a stove with a tall chimney by two tents
LH-2943-4 - men pose by two of three tents.
Date: 1907-1908.
Photographer: Ashley, Wyndham Winkler?
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