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.

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.

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.

Homesteaders Joe & Bill Kessel's sod shack on the open prairie

Prairie sod buildings. Tee-pee of wood. Young boy and dog in foreground with wagons in yard.

Sod shack with two women one boy and one girl standing in front of it. A buggy is driving away from it with a man and woman in the seat.

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

27 men, 17 women, and seven children all posing for a group picture in front of a large sod house

There is a man on a steam powered tractor in front of what appears to be a sod house under partial construction or deconstruction. Six people can be seen on or around the sod 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.

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.

Posed for the camera, Gramma Empey, Annie Ritchie and the children (6) and Gramma Ritchie(?).

Sod house and sod blacksmith shop, barns and livestock.

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."

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.