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A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was an often used alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]
Sod houses were a popular construction choice in the early 1900s by the early homesteaders to Saskatchewan and were similar to an earth sheltering type of house. Whereas many earth sheltering houses were built into hills, a 'soddie' had the base dug down about 3 feet (0.91 m) below the residence square footage area. A layer of buffalo, oxen or ...
Addison Sod House [6] 1911 (completed) 2003 Kindersley: A well-preserved and rare surviving example of a sod building, which was an important prairie form of construction and used extensively in the tall-grass regions Batoche [7] 1872 (establishment)
Sod house. It features the Highland One Room Schoolhouse [3] a 1913 Canadian Pacific Railway Caboose, [4] a reconstructed sod house, the Delorme family's one-room log cabin, extensive indoor and outdoor installations of numerous Cree and settler archives, artifacts and war memorabilia, [5] including 'Sergeant Bill'—"Saskatchewan's most famous goat".
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In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Coleville had a population of 280 living in 129 of its 155 total private dwellings, a change of -8.2% from its 2016 population of 305. With a land area of 1.66 km 2 (0.64 sq mi), it had a population density of 168.7/km 2 (436.9/sq mi) in 2021.
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Broadview is located on the Highway 1, the Trans-Canada Highway, 155 kilometres (96 mi) east of the provincial capital city of Regina at the junction with Highway 201 north and Highway 605 south. Broadview was the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1882, and later went on to become a major divisional point for the CPR. [ 22 ]