On September 1, 1905, Saskatchewan became a province, with inauguration day held September 4. The Dominion Lands Act permitted settlers to acquire one quarter of a square mile of land to homestead and offered an additional quarter upon establishing a homestead. Immigration peaked in 1910, and in spite of the initial difficulties of frontier life – distance from towns, sod homes, and backbreaking labour – new settlers established a European-Canadian style of prosperous agrarian society.
Fire at Nokomis, Saskatchewan, February 3, 1921
Nokomis, Saskatchewan, May 28, 1912
Prairie schooners, Nokomis, Saskatchewan
Kaiser Wilhelm Ave., Langenberg, Saskatchewan
Hanley, Saskatchewan, May 31, 1910
Humboldt, Saskatchewan, July 12, 1918
Humboldt, Saskatchewan, October 1914
Watching baseball game, Humboldt, Saskatchewan, 1912
Langham, Saskatchewan, 1909
1st Avenue looking south, Nipawin, Saskatchewan
Cutting wheat on the Franklin Realty Company’s farm, Nokomis, Saskatchewan
Family in a carriage, Humboldt, Saskatchewan
