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| While prairie winters would have been a shock to settlers from more moderate climate areas of Europe, a lot of the settlers from northern Scandinavia and other such areas were accustomed to frigid conditions. I remember reading an article once about Finns who migrated to the north of their country who endured hardships the equal of anything here.
On the open prairie the first homes were often built of sod. The thick walls provided good insulation in winter, and summer for that matter. When the pioneers prospered and built their Eaton and other catalogue houses they found it much harder to keep them warm than the old soddies.
Edited by Jim in Sask 2/14/2015 16:45
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How did the settlers/Indians not freeze too death?
