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SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE
1924



         

PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE EARLY EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT.

THE SWEDISH COLONISTS. (con't)

banks, by the regulations under which they first settled. The land was rolling, bluffy and sloughy with only relatively small patches of open plough land. The land is now well scrubbed out, there are many large fields; the farm houses and buildings are comfortable and commodious, and there is no more contented body of mixed farmers in the province. Girls and boys have married freely with the English speaking people around them. Thus A. G. Hawkes, who came out from England in 1886, and farmed continuously at Percival till his appointment as Liquor Commis- sioner brought him to Regina, has sons and daughters married to Swedes which means that the writer has by marriage, four Swedish nephews and nieces. In the old settlement there was no abler, more fair minded and de- servedly respected and looked-up-to man than Mr. A. G. Sahlmark, whose family have worthily followed in his footsteps. Dr. Sahlmark, the mem- ber for Saltcoats in the Provincial Assembly is his son, and the veteran Indian Missionary, the Rev. Dr. Hugh McKay, of Round Lake Mission, married one of his daughters. There has been a great deal of talk in the past about the necessity~of "assimilating" the settler from Europe. In the case of the Stockholm and Percival Swedes it looks rather as if the Swedes are assimilating us. Our personal thanks are due to the late Mr. Sahl- mark, who died two or three years ago full of years and honor, for the courageous impartiality he showed on one occasion. In the second election for the North West Assembly (not Council), a meeting was held in the post office at Stockholm at which A. G. Thorburn, of Broadview, the sitting member, myself and the Whitewood candidates were the speakers. The line I took was much opposed to the feeling of the meeting, but I thought it my duty to take it, and subsequent developments showed that I was perfectly right. It was a large, dimly lighted room, and some forty or fifty dour and unsympathetic men listened to me in silence. Suddenly up sprang a man near me with a yell and, raving at me, shook his fist in my face. A chill went down my back. It was "so sudden". The thought flashed to me, "Has he gone mad and is he going to murder me" "-and I remember distinctly looking at his raised hand for a knife. I also remem- ber with equal distinctness how his long beard went up and down as he raved. I was told afterwards that I never moved a muscle. At a subse quent meeting at Cotham, A. G. Thorburn told the incident, and gave me credit for coolness. A. G. Sahlmark was chairman of the meeting, and is the fair and firm way in which he handled the situation gained my admira- tion and thanks. When order had been restored I resumed my speech and repeated, with I am afraid a somewhat venomous emphasis, the offending statement and "more also". It was received this time in perfect quiet by my hyper-irascible friend. The next time I spoke in that settlement my mission met with his approval, and he came as near being obsequious as is possible for a sturdy Scandinavian. All settlers are not successful, and some seem to be dogged by an evil fate from the first. Such was the case with a Swede who came into the settlement some years after its beginning. His story however, sad as it was, had a happy ending after a good many 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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