#finnsinalberta — Public Fediverse posts
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Hespero was a small farming community in central Alberta, settled in part by Finnish immigrants who took up wooded homesteads west of Red Deer in the early 1900s.
Read how the settlement developed and what daily life looked like for the families who lived there: https://www.nordicprairielife.ca/prairie-fjords-blog/hespero-alberta
#HesperoAlberta #FinnishCanadian #FinnsInAlberta #AlbertaHistory #RuralAlberta #NordicPrairieLife
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Finnish homesteaders in central Alberta cleared forested land by hand, took seasonal jobs to support their farms and relied on *talkoot* when the work was too large for one family. Read more...
https://www.nordicprairielife.ca/prairie-fjords-blog/clearing-the-bush
#FinnishCanadian #FinnsInAlberta #AlbertaHistory #CanadianHistory #FinnishHistory #NordicPrairieLife