Mrs William Leith (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. (28 cm.) 64p. Profusely illustrated with 69 black and white captioned photos and two black and white plat maps showing the names of the homesteaders of various parcels. Stapled booklet in cream colored wrappers printed in green. Just touches of wear to extremities, wrappers lightly soiled, gift inscription at the top of the front panel ["To my dear Olive, thinking you might enjoy the histor of the old neighorhood"], in pencil at the top of the first page is this note "Mome's familyu book", occasional highlight or pencil mark pointing out various persons, the name "Wagkesiu" (?) written in ink on the rear cover, corners square and flat, else very good to near fine. Date determined from the contents with 1955 being the latests. I have been unable to locate any towns with these names in Canada and have come to believe that they are actually the names of districts identified for homesteading. In any case, the area is that around Saskatoon with the names, Hanley, Moose Jaw, Regina and the like cropping up again and again in the narratives. These are the firsthand observations of those who homesteaded in this area in their own words. "This history was compiled to honor the original homesteaders, and to tell their story in their own words so far as was possible. In some, the son or daughter wrote for parents who had passed on, and where there was no family, or the homesteader could not be located, we have written from records available, and with the aid of pioneers still living in the district. Dates and names have been checked carefully and to the best of our knowledge are correct." [from the front matter] Just a mine of information about this area in the early 1900s and a "must have" for anyone whose family settled in the area. The hundreds of names found here are far too numerous to list.…