PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE EARLY EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT.
POLES, BOHEMIANS, RUSSIANS, ETC.
The main colonies in this section of the country north of Whitewood
were the Swede and Hungarian, but there were what may be called sub-
sidiary communities of other nationalities. There were Poles, Bohemians,
Russians, and representatives of other nationalities, but all were on sep-
arate homesteads. The village system, such a leading feature in some
European settlements was not in evidence here at all. The whole country
was rolling, with bluffs and sloughs. In the Qu'Appelle valley on the
south slopes was good building timber which combined with the really
wonderful way in which they made use of the sub-soil clay to produce a
plastering material, made very snug warm and comfortable buildings
both for man and beast. The bluffs gave shelter and, althougn some of the
land was not of the first quality, on the whole the location was well suited
for these hardy and resourceful people. There was quite a number of
Poles and of these I will tell two stories, one pleasing, the other most
gruesome, in fact I think the latter has features which the fictionist might
hesitate to use even if they occurred to him in imagination. We will take
the gruesome story first.
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