Assignment #5 The Early Settlers

You think its cold now? Well, early canadian settlers didn't have all the warm "extras" we have now. If you think its hard to survive in the cold now, it must have been near impossible 100 years ago. The early settlers are the ones who started the base of Canada. Food and shelter were hard things to get. Quote from Amit's blog, "Some would say it's in comparison to winning the 649 lottery."

Food, was a very hard thing to get. They had to grow their own food, vegetables and pick berries. But in the winter, imagine how hard it would be to get food. Jams and jellies were stored for food, and there was a general store where you could get food in exchange for other goods. Milk and butter was churned from cows. They were also used for meat. Chickens provided meat and eggs. Pigs, duck and geese were also raised. People would sometimes sell or trade these animals to get money or other foods.

Shelter was made using wood. Most people lived right near forests, so wood was an unlimited supply, but the challenge was cutting down the trees and seperating them into pieces to fit into the fireplace... in the winter. Before making a house, people lived in tents and kept all of their belongings in their tents. Sod houses were the easiest to make (grass and roots). They were first cut into strips, then piled on top of eah other like bricks, which is how walls were made.

My mom's side of the family lived in England before they came to Canada. The reason my grandmother moved to Canada was because her husband, Mike Fisher (not the hockey player), was offered a job in Canada with the government to work as an architect for submarines. So she moved to Canada with him.

My dad's side of the family lived in Uruguay before coming to Canada. They moved to Canada because my grandfather was offered a job at Ottawa Uinversity to be a professer. My grandmother went with him and thats when their lives started.

I got all of my information from http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/intro.html