Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan

A group of people outside the Drake church, a small wooden building

R-A20088
Item
ca. 1905

A group of people outside the Drake church, a small wooden building.

A large group of men, women and children standing and sitting on the ground at Cannington Manor

R-A19465
Item
1880 or after

A large group of men, women and children standing and sitting on the ground at Cannington Manor.

A makeshift mailbox in the midst of the wilderness

R-B11456
Item
1930 or before

A slightly blurred photo of a makeshift mailbox in the midst of the wilderness. Tall bushes are growing all around the box, and the pioneer's home cannot be seen.

A man, holding a dog, and a woman seated in a sleigh, and a man holding a baby

R-A19472
Item
1880 or after

A man, holding a dog, and a woman seated in a sleigh, and a man holding a baby, all are wearing fur coats and fur hats.

A man, with a woman sitting on his lap, three other women and a little girl sitting on a veranda

R-A19319
Item
190-?

A man, with a woman sitting on his lap, three other women and a little girl sitting on a veranda. Unidentified.

A pioneer family arriving at the new home

R-B11449
Item
ca. 1890

A pioneer family arriving at the new home. Settlers' effects have been unloaded from the wagon and have been stacked by the door. Two women and a boy are sitting in the wagon.

A sod house

R-A9487
Item
copied 1972 (originally created 1914)

Exterior view of a sod house with a two-deck wagon box, covered with binder canvas, placed in front of the house, used as a coal bin during the winter.

Information on the back of the photograph written by H.W. Jones of Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan on April 5, 1972: This sod house was built in 1911 on William G. Jones's homestead. Location - NW 1/4 Sec. 6 Tp. 24 Rg. 10 W3rd meridian in Saskatchewan, Canada. This photo is an enlargement reproduced from the original which was taken, developed, printed and finished by Harold W. Jones in 1914.