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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 a common 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.
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)
To the Central Inuit of Northern Canada, it refers to a hybrid of a tent and igloo, or tent and sod house. Depending on the season, the lower portion was constructed of snow blocks or stone, while the upper portion used skins or canvas. [3] To the Kalaallit of Greenland, qarmaq refers to the dwelling's wall. [4]
Along with the stone wall, a three-room sod house, built from sod cut out of the surrounding grasses, was completed in 1986 with help from others in the Smiley area. More recently, the wall has been kept maintained by Triston Mitchell Mchelone.
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".
Sod houses — vernacular dwellings with sod roofs; Pages in category "Sod houses" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may ...
The word Igloolik (Inuktitut: "there is an igloo here") comes from iglu (meaning: "house"/"building") and refers to the sod houses [2] that were originally in the area. [3] [4] Inuit and their ancestors have inhabited the island since 2000 BC.