- ZE1.002
- Item
- [ca 1906]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Sod blacksmith shop on farm of A.D. Fletcher in 1906, Zealandia, Sask.
Posed for the camera, Gramma Empey, Annie Ritchie and the children (6) and Gramma Ritchie(?).
"Annie and her girls" (3), another small boy, "Fairman and Uncle Tom."
Ritchie family portrait in front of their sod house in the Zealandia area. Posed for the camera, Gramma Empey, Annie Ritchie, six children, and Gramma Ritchie(?), along with a dog.
Sod house with two women wearing Sunday clothes and hats and two small children in front or entering. A buckboard with a man and a woman similarly dressed sitting in it driving away. A horses' head and a figure seated can be seen just behind the buckboard.
Sod house and sod blacksmith shop, barns and livestock.
The Ritchie family sod house with, L-R, Mrs. Peter Ritchie, Sr., Miss Jean Ritchie, Peter Ritchie, Sr. in front of the house. A window box contains flowers. There is a frame barn behind the house.
Sod house with people standing in front. L-R: Bill Whyte, Mary McCuaig (Mrs. Jas Ritchie), Rod McCuaig, Jack McCuaig (holding a little dog). The McCuaig homestead is located NE 35-31-13.
Man and two women in front of sod wall
Man is wearing a suit, tie, celluloid collar, cap. Women in long skirts, jackets, dark hats with wide brims. Could be the same woman in FA1.013. A sod wall can be seen in the background. One woman is holding a long barrelled rifle.
Kunkel Collection
Four men standing in front of the barn holding animals; four white horses, three harnessed, two dark coloured horses harnessed and one colt. The other team might be oxen. One buggy with a dog lying underneath.