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SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE
1924



         

THE BARR COLONY.


There were about two thousand people, men, women and children, camped on the Saskatchewan River at Saskatoon in the month of April, 1903. All were under canvas, chiefly in bell tents, but there were many large marquees. Most of the men wore a pacific aspect, but a number were conspicuously girded about with revolvers and six inch knives of deadly appearance. Almost without exception the men owned shot guns, and a number had rifles. For about two weeks the camp fires burned, and water was dipped up from the great river. The camp resounded with shouts and laughter, and the whole proceeding was like one great jolly picnic. At first there 'were but few horses, oxen or wagons, but these rapidly increased. The weather was fine and all was joy. These were the Barr Colonists just arrived from England.

The present city of Saskatoon was then a sizeable village. It is sit- uated at a point where the railroad from Regina crossed the South Sas- katchewan River. This multiplex agglomeration of people had arrived by the railroad, and brought with them furniture and other effects of a diverse description. Their goal was the site of the present town of Lloydminster, some two hundred miles distant, and to arrive there, roughly, some two hundred miles of open, rolling prairie, practically uninhabited, had to be crossed. In about two weeks the great trek began. Those who had secured oxen or horses, wagons, implements and sundries to their satisfaction began to pull out. Some of the wagons were piled high with goods. All were inexperienced with oxen, and many knew nothing about horses. Some of the horses travelled that two hundred miles without the harness being taken off, the reason being that the owners once the harness was off the horses' backs would not know how to put it on again.

There was no organised trek in the mass. People, or groups of people pulled out for the unknown as they got ready. The Canadian Government had provided stopping places on the route about a day's march apart. Here were large marquees and wood and water. The travellers carried their own provisions. A great deal of discomfort was experienced espe- cially by those moving out at first, for they encountered spring snows and rains, but the spirits of the adventurers remained high. The women of the Barr Colony deserve unlimited credit for the way in which they bore severe hardship for the first year or two as well as for the pluck and resolution which they showed upon the unaccustomed trail. Many of these embryo settlers were city born and bred. There were about two hundred South African soldiers in the crowd, and for them of course the journey had no terrors. There were two rather bad creeks to cross. At one, Bibliography follows:



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THE STORY
OF
SASKATCHEWAN
AND ITS PEOPLE



By JOHN HAWKES
Legislative Librarian



Volume II
Illustrated



CHICAGO - REGINA
THE S.J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1924




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