“This book is going to be published by me. Janet spent the time crafting her Grandmother’s story. You can do this as well and see me when you finish. Copyrights belong to the family.” ~ Beth Lord

Excerpt From Prairie Girl © 1918 Janet Moen

“To Irene’s Family & Other Readers,

The following stories and Swedish family history are a gift from Irene to you. Mom expressed that she would be deeply honored if I’d compile her stories into a little book to be passed down and remembered. Lovingly, I’ve chosen Prairie Girl as its title. The true stories of a young girl’s prairie life in Canada during the early 1900’s. “

– Janet Moen

“Out on the prairie that’s all there was…that’s all I knew. “ – Irene

“On the vast Saskatchewan prairie where the sky and earth meet, Oscar built their little prairie house. It wasn’t a ‘flimsy tar paper claim shanty’ or a ‘sod house with dirt floors,’ like many homestead claims during this time. It was a small wooden house that was sturdily built and made to withstand the most sever Canadian weather.

It was a snug little house with just two rooms. It had glass paned windows, a smooth wooden floor, and a front door. The outside walls and the roof were both covered with hand-split cedar shingles. All of the lumber and building materials for the little house had to be hauled in by team and wagon from Gull Lake, thirty-seven miles away.

There was a kitchen-dining-living room-end, all in one, and a bedroom-end. In the middle was a chimney that was shared by two stoves, back-to-back with a wall between these rooms. The bedroom-end was divided by curtains and was heated with a coal oil heater. Between the heater and the wall stood a metal fire-shield that the kids used as a blackboard. They drew pictures and wrote on it with clumps of laundry starch. The kitchen-end had a cast-iron cook stove, a long wooden table and benches handmade by Oscar, and two steamer trunks with wooden slats on top. One trunk was Oscar’s, and one was Hilda’s, and when the Rosenberg family and their little Tootsy dog moved from Seattle to the Saskatchewan prairie, the two trunks carried all of their possessions. They were also used for extra seating.”

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