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It’s all a setup!!!! To con you into going to Canada
It’s dried up land for miles and miles, you can’t make
As good as crops as they say and you get nothing.
There’s no market no store you can’t even see your
Neighbors from where you are. You can also catch a
Disease called scurvy witch is lack of vitamin C. While immigrants interested in farming came by the thousands during the Sifton years, there were many that arrived with no interest in working the land. These men and women stayed in the cities or joined work camps throughout the country. Others tried farming, but found it too difficult, too expensive or too unpredictable. More than a third of all farmers gave up their homesteads within three years.
One of the major difficulties many of these farmers faced was arriving in a country where nothing was familiar. The landscape, climate and culture were all new to them. Most left countries where they were surrounded by trees and rolling hills. The vast, flat, sparsely wooded Canadian plains consequently was a shock to them. So too were the hard cold winters. Many arrived without the ability to speak either English or French, and with different religious, cultural and political experiences than those shared by Anglo-Saxon Canadians. Some families, including the Citizens, solved some of these problems by traveling further north into the parkland. Here, surrounded by trees, they often settled close to family and friends from their country of origin. The trade-off was that the land they settled was usually less fertile and harder to farm than the Prairie's grassland soil. While immigrants interested in farming came by the thousands during the Sifton years, there were many that arrived with no interest in working the land. These men and women stayed in the cities or joined work camps throughout the country. Others tried farming, but found it too difficult, too expensive or too unpredictable. More than a third of all farmers gave up their homesteads within three years. One of the major difficulties many of these farmers faced was arriving in a country where nothing was familiar. The landscape, climate and culture were all new to them. Most left countries where they were surrounded by trees and rolling hills. The vast, flat, sparsely wooded Canadian plain consequently was a shock to them. So too were the hard cold winters. Many arrived without the ability to speak either English or French, and with different religious, cultural and political experiences than those shared by Anglo-Saxon Canadians. Some families, including the Citizens, solved some of these problems by traveling further north into the parkland. Here, surrounded by trees, they often settled close to family and friends from their country of origin. The trade-off was that the land they settled was usually less fertile and harder to farm than the Prairie's grassland soil. The majority of the new immigrants did choose to settle in the grasslands. Once they had selected their homestead section, their first challenge was to build a home quickly using the material available to them. In those areas where wood was scarce, many created this first house out of piled up sod cut from the ground. Once this was accomplished, they had to begin breaking up the land in order to plant their crops. This long, wearying work was made easier for those who could afford tools, machines and animals. Not all could. Even if these farm families successfully built their homesteads and planted their crops, there were always factors beyond their control that could determine their success or failure. Drought, dust storms, hail, floods, frost, and blizzards were just some of the natural disasters a farming family might face.