Home Life
Pioneers did not have electricity. They used this/these for light.
What are candles?
What are kerosene lanterns?
Pioneer families spent most of their time growing and finding this!
What is food?
This is the source of heat in pioneer schoolhouses.
What is the wood stove?
This is where you could buy everything from fabric to penny candies.
What is the General Store?
This is one of the first jobs a little girl will learn and have to help with.
What is setting the table?
What is helping to dry the dishes?
The top layer of grass and roots, held together by dirt. Used for building huts where there is no wood or few trees.
What is sod?
Pioneers used this to make butter.
What is cream, skimmed off the top of the cow's milk?
Most pioneer children got to school using this mode of transport.
What is walking?
Name three items you could get at the store..
What is: salt, spices, nails, cotton fabric, buttons, ribbons, thimbles, slates to write on, slate pencils, ...?
Pioneer children mostly got/had this type of toy.
What is handmade?
Early Pioneers travelled from Eastern Canada to the prairies on this.
What is the train?
The Canadian Pacific Railway
Many pioneers grew vegetables and raised animals to get their food. How else did they get their food?
What is hunting and fishing?
Describe early pioneer teachers.
What is very strict and ruled with a 'sharp tongue'?
Most Pioneers 'paid' for the items/goods that they couldn't grow or make (coffee, sugar, spices, cotton cloth, dishes,...) at the store like this.
What is trading, or bartering their extra eggs, butter, or vegetables?
Pioneer children spent most of their free time doing this.
What is 'doing chores in the house and on the farm?
This was the most important piece of furniture in the pioneers' houses. Why?
What is the iron cook stove or fireplace? They used it to heat the house and to cook food.
These are four crops pioneers grew in their fields.
What is wheat, oats, barley, and corn.
This is a pointed cap that misbehaved children had to wear.
What is a 'dunce cap'?
When traders and settlers first came to Western Canada, they set up Trading Forts to trade with the Aboriginal People in the area. Give four examples of items that First Nations people could get for their animal furs and hides at the Trading Fort .
What are: Woolen blankets, muskets, gun powder, iron pots, metal traps for trapping wildlife, beads, dishes, ...?
Name four chores pioneer children had to do.
What is: Pick berries, Fetch water, Feed the animals, Collect eggs, Churn butter, Sew or mend, ...
Sod houses were a good type of house for the pioneers. Why?
What is cool in summer, cozy in winter, and fireproof?
The early pioneers did not have fridges. This is how they kept their food cool. Name it and explain how and where it was built.
What is a root cellar?
This was a hole dug in the ground, usually under the floor or in the side of a little hill.
Each family would take turns sending this to school.
What is firewood for the wood stove?
The General Store was not just a place to buy and trade goods. Name three other reasons that people dropped in at the General Store.
What is: to chat, to play a game of checkers, to hear the latest news from the storekeeper, to send and receive mail at the Post Office, located in the back of the store?
This is a special tool for spinning yarn that a girl learns to use, before she learns to use the walking wheel or the smaller Scottish spinning wheel.
What is a drop spindle?