EARLY DAYS - HOMESTEADERS

March 2017 - washing and ironing - equipment (new) April 2017 - music - instruments (new) May 2017 - transportation (updated) May 2017 - hardships (updated) animals raised on the farm bartering at the store bartering - examples blacksmith baking bread, churning butter breads - frybread, bannock building a home - sod house, log house butter - make your own butter children - toys and games candles - how they made candles Christmas clothing - men, women, children clothing - wool, linen clothing - doing laundry communities - growth of prairie towns covered wagon entertainment farming - plowing, planting, harvesting First Nations and the settlers food - growing, preparing and preserving food general store - services, goods, displays, post office hardships home - fireplace, furniture immigration - coming to Canada immigration - leaving the homeland immigration - voyage across the ocean introduction - table of contents kitchen - items in the kitchen links - to other web sites music - instruments oxen planting crops Red River cart resources - for info about the general store resources - for one-room schools stove - iron stove survival - food, clothing, tools,candlemaking school, general store, blacksmith school - the one-room school tools transportation voyage - crossing the ocean washing - washing clothes, ironing, making soap washing and ironing - equipment 1910 Boomtown - Western Development Museum | bank | barber | blacksmith | doctor | drugstore | | dry goods store | fire hall and town hall | general store | | harness shop and livery stable | hardware store | police | | printing shop | school | train station | telephone operator |

EARLY DAYS - HOMESTEADERS

curriculum guidelines - gr.4 Social Studies

WEB PAGES for STUDENTS

web page by J. Giannetta
gr. 2-3 teacher (retired)
Regina, Sk., Canada
1999 (updated May 2017)

CREDITS - for graphics used on the "EARLY DAYS" web pages