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Settling In

First Homes on the Prairies

by (author) Faye Reineberg Holt

Publisher
Fifth House Books
Initial publish date
Oct 1999
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894004343
    Publish Date
    Oct 1999
    List Price
    $6.95

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Moving and settling in have always been a part of prairie life. From teepees to soddies, mailorder houses to mansions, early homes on the Canadian prairies were as diverse as the people who lived in them.

When newcomers from other cultures and places arrived in western Canada, one of their first tasks was to build a shelter for themselves and their families. Settling In details the different lifestyles, cultural expectations, and construction techniques of First Nations, explorers, fur traders, missionaries, NWMP, and pioneer settlers as they built dwellings in the often inhospitable prairie climate and turned houses into homes.

Archival photographs provide a visual record of the enormous variety and ingenuity characteristic of early prairie architecture in the late 1890s and early 1900s.

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Faye Reineberg Holt is a Fifth House Books author.

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