Four men, one woman and one dog standing in front of a sod house

The Ritchie family (3 men, 2 women, 6 children) and two dogs pose in front of their sod house homestead. Only identification provided lists the photo subjects as "Annie and her girls" and "Fairman and Uncle Tom."

The family of Robert John Boyne with four horses and four cows in front of a sod house

An exterior view of the remains of a sod house belonging to Tom Woolford, located near Whiteshore Lake, Saskatchewan

Image of the 'Union Church of Sod', a sod building, in Castor, Alberta; two cows are sitting beside the building.

Two men and a woman and an early car in front of a low sod house. A small frame building behind the house. A good view of the desolate prairie landscape.

Sodding bees were a community event at the Winona School. Walls of sod three feet thick would be piled against the wooden frame of the school to make a building that was warm in the winter and cool in the summer. In this photo, a large group of people stand/sit outside and on top of Winona School. Contact Rosetown archives for names.

A lady stands outside a sod house which was the very first Winona School. The Winona district hosted "sodding bees" where they would pile sod walls three feet thick against the wooden frame of the school, producing a building which was warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Mr. A.N. Swetman, one of the first surveyors to the area, stands in front of Zealandia's first post office, a sod and wooden structure. It was located near the present site of Zealandia.

Man standing infront of a sod and wooden structure with "Zealandia's First Post-Office" hand written on bottom of photograph in white marker