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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]
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Labrador Eskimos arrived 500 years ago, as a branch of Thule expansion. In the 1920s, Junius Bird, a researcher with the American Museum of Natural History surveyed parts of the Labrador coast and discovered the ruins of sod houses, which he excavated. Evidence at the site indicated that it was an extension of Thule culture, along with some ...
The construction of the 53-meter-long, ten-metre-wide and one-storey-high building needed to house the church, the missionaries’ quarters and storage was started in spring 1835 and completed in October 1837. [2] [10] That building still dominates Hebron’s landscape. View of the Hebron Mission National Historic Site of Canada, July 2009
This article is a list of historic places in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, a National Historic Site commemorating Dominion of Newfoundland forces killed during World War I, is located in France. Numerous National Historic Events also occurred across Newfoundland & Labrador, and are identified at places associated with them, using the same style of federal plaque which marks ...
This article is a list of historic places in central Newfoundland. These properties are entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places , whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal. The list contains entries from communities in census divisions 2 , 3 , 6 , and 8 .
The Sod House Ranch buildings were constructed using native materials including pine and aspen lumber, juniper posts, and locally quarried stone. Most of the buildings have been repaired, reroofed, or restored in some way, but all of the structures still retained their original character. [6] Restored 1880s barn at the Sod House Ranch