Homes and Historical Thinking

Look at these pictures of homes in Saskatchewan...

What details do you notice?
From what materials is each home made?
What can you guess about the environment that was near each home?
What does the home and surrounding environment tell you about the people who live there?

[1]

Woman sitting outside a tipi, n.d.
(PAS Photo R-A7672)

LOG HOUSE

[2]

Family standing outside a log house banked up with sod, ca. 1903.
(PAS Photo R-A7227)

SOD HOUSE

[3]

"No Place LIke Home." Rudolf Einhardt's sod house
2 miles south-east of Glamis, SK, n.d,
(PAS Photo S-B430)

[4]

Flock of geese in front of a typical Ukrainian-style house with
white-washed walls and thatched roof.
(PAS Photo R-A269)

[5]

Tom Maloney's timber-frame house in the Burroughs district, ca. 1916
(PAS Photo R-A6218)

STONE HOUSE

[6]

W.R. Motherwell's stone house near Abernethy, SK.
The house was built in 1897; the picture was taken in 1965.
(PAS Photo R-A7194-1)