• Settling In: First Homes on the Prairies

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 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.

...amply illustrated...surveys the variety of domiciles that prairie dwellers — First Nations peoples and Europeans alike — created to protect themselves from the harsh climate...
— Canadian Book Review Annual

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