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Finnish immigrant Tom Sukanen spent years building a ship on the Saskatchewan prairie, hoping eventually to reach Finland. The surviving boat is real, but decades of folklore have complicated the story of the man who built it.
#FinnishCanadian #SaskatchewanHistory #PrairieHistory
https://www.nordicprairielife.ca/prairie-fjords-blog/tom-sukanen-ship-saskatchewan
Talkoot is the Finnish tradition of neighbours working together to finish the jobs one household cannot manage alone—a practice that helped build farms and communities across Alberta.
https://www.nordicprairielife.ca/prairie-fjords-blog/talkoot-the-finnish-tradition-of-community-work
#Talkoot #FinnishCulture #FinnishLanguage #FinnsInAlberta #PrairieHistory #CommunityWork #NordicPrairieLife
How did New Iceland survive the quarantine winter of 1876–77? Beneath the frozen surface of Lake Winnipeg, centuries of Icelandic fishing experience met generations of Saulteaux knowledge, changing the colony's future one net at a time.
https://www.nordicprairielife.ca/prairie-fjords-blog/nets-beneath-the-ice
#NewIceland #LakeWinnipeg #IcelandicCanadian #ManitobaHistory #CanadianHistory #PrairieHistory #IndigenousHistory #Saulteaux
The arrival of 1,200 Icelandic refugees in New Iceland brought hope, hardship, and a devastating smallpox winter that nearly ended the colony before it began.
https://www.nordicprairielife.ca/prairie-fjords-blog/the-great-settlement-amp-the-smallpox-winter-1876
#NewIceland #IcelandicHistory #CanadianHistory #ManitobaHistory #NordicHeritage #prairiehistory
Ever wonder what happened between Leif Erikson packing up his longships in Newfoundland and the massive Scandinavian migration wave to the Canadian Prairies?Spoiler alert: There was an 800-year blank space on the timeline.
https://www.nordicprairielife.ca/prairie-fjords-blog/the-800-year-silence-why-canada-remained-off-the-nordic-radar
#CanadianHistory #VikingHistory #NorseHistory #ScandinavianHistory #PrairieHistory #HistoryMatters #Canada #History
The story of Scandinavians in Canada did not actually begin with the homesteaders of the late 1800s. It started nearly a thousand years earlier on the rocky, wind-swept shores of Newfoundland.
In part one of our new history series, we are digging into the mystery of L’Anse aux Meadows.
#nordicprairielife #canhist #vikingsincanada #ScandiMigration #prairiehistory #lanseauxmeadows #HeritageStorytelling
Over generations, these plants escaped the garden and became part of the prairie landscape, thriving along fencelines, homesteads, and woodland edges.
Read the full story:
https://www.nordicprairielife.ca/recipesandroots/dill-in-the-boreal-how-ukrainian-herbs-naturalized-along-prairie-fencelines
#UkrainianHeritage #prairiehistory #canadianfoodhistory #FoodHeritage #prairielife #borealforest #foraging #heritagegardens #Dill #SustainableLiving #homesteading #canadianprairies #CulturalHeritage #gardening #foodculture #historythroughfood
Another one from the archives
I never knew much about haskaps until recently. They weren't in my rotation. Do you forage fro them?
https://www.nordicprairiekitchens.ca/recipesandroots/haskaps-on-the-canadian-prairies
#Haskap #HaskapBerries #CanadianPrairies #PrairieFood #PrairieHistory #FoodHistory #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousFoodways #SeasonalEating #Foraging #WildFoods #CanadianFood #LocalFood #PrairieLiving #FoodHeritage #SustainableFood #NativePlants #CanadianAgriculture
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1841:
"We had now trotted on to about 9 o'clock am where we began to think of breakfasting at a small river now at no great distance, when we suddenly perceived a band of Horses and Cattle, and upon nearer approach discovered people and a great number of carts and other paraphernalia, evidently the accompaniment of a party about to start on a very long journey -- who we immediately supposed to be some of the Red River settlers... #PrairieHistory #History #Books
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1841:
"We had no sooner landed on the opposite bank to arrange everything for a fresh start when one of us happening to look up discovered upon a rising ground, descending towards us, a band of eight Indians, tall, fierce looking fellows who we soon perceived to be armed from the glancing of the guns in the sun as they descended the hill. As our guns were all scattered about, we immediately each secured his own & remained waiting... #CanadaHistory #PrairieHistory
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1841:
"Mr. Rowand hoped that we might overtake him before he reached Red River, where the Columbia Despatches, of which I was the bearer, at all times looked for with anxiety, were doubly so this year as Governor Simpson was about to visit that quarter of the Hon Company's territories. We certainly stood in great need of fresh horses, for those we had been travelling with were wretched in the extreme; in fact, could we have only mounted... #History #PrairieHistory
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1841:
"I did not however at the moment feel in a humour to be awestruck with our friend Peter's dignified demeanor (being vexed at the state of the horses) and therefore desired him sans ceremoni to provide us the means without loss of time to prosecute our journey. I herer found a note addressed to me by Chief Trader Rowand, who had passed only four days before, informing me that he had left two fresh horses for our use and hoping #History #PrairieHistory #Books
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1841:
"Having arrived upon the summit of a hill, the poor Indian guide, worn out with vexation and fatigue, asked my permission to smoke a pipe and recollect himself; which being granted, and the pipe finished, he again led the way, but in a totally different direction to that which he, for the last few hours, pursued. We of course followed, though doubting whether he was right or wrong. Towards evening we encamped.... #PrairieHistory #SKHistory #AmWritingHistory