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Vintage Photos: Agriculture
In 1870, Canada added Manitoba as its newest province. A major goal was to settle the West and curtail spread of Americans settlers into the Canadian prairies. Lands were surveyed and opened for homesteading. Within a generation, this area was transformed from a hunting/gathering/ trading economy into an agriculture-based market economy. Vintage photos trace the development of agriculture from the early days of breaking prairie soil though arrival of the railways and local grain elevators.
1. Breaking the prairie sod – ‘mixed farming’ ca. 1900.
5. Running the sawmill – when trees were a major ‘crop’.
6. Elevators at Carman early 1900s – shipping the grain.