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SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE
1924



         

PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE EARLY EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT.

THE SWEDISH COLONISTS.

Last but not least of the settlers from Europe who settled north of the Qu'Appelle we come to the Swedes. The Scandinavian, whether Swed- ish, Norwegian, Danish or Icelandic, needs no eulogy from us. If the Swedes came in battalions they would be welcome in any country under the sun which needs development. No one has ever challenged the wis- dom of encouraging Swedish immigration to the full and it is a matter for regret that more of them have not been induced to settle among us. In the hard years the Swedish colonists suffered with the rest of us. Where the next sack of flour, or rather the cash to pay for it, was to come from was a problem they had to face and overcome in more than one of the early years, but they endured with a quiet courage and fortitude beyond all praise, and won out. These settlers of the early years were, speaking by and large, men not only of fine physique, but of high character, law- abiding, clean-living, religious, industrious. Unless we have misread him there is one great feature in which he is pre-eminent, not only among European settlers, but among all settlers. Most of our citizens would like to get rich quick if they could, and so they turn over more sod than they can cultivate properly; buy adjacent land which is an incubus-for the land they cultivate is expected to pay principal and interest on the land which is lying idle; they take chances which leads in many instances to a millstone of debt. Not so these early Swedes. They were not and are not speculative farmers; but farmers who bend their efforts to making a com- fortable living. When the settler had replaced his original house by a roomy and comfortable dwelling; when he had as many cows as could be fed, milked and cared for without making slaves of his household; when he had as much under cultivation as he could properly cultivate without being harassed periodically by the problem of hired labour, he was apt to be philosophically content. When his grain, his butter, his hens, his sur- plus young stock were sufficient for his wants, with something to spare for a rainy day, or rather for a dry season, he was apt to plod along in a condition of more or less philosophical content, not killing himself, or his women and children, in any wild adventures to attain riches. If all our farmers were like the Swedes the cry for rural credits, for a state organ- ization to enable the farmer ostensibly to develop his place for the general good of the State, but in reality to get comfortably into debt and stay there-this cry would not be so persistent as it has been in the past, and probably will continue to be in the future. The men who have succeeded best in the best sense, are those who came in absolutely on their own, and 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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