Homesteading
My father spoke of living in a sod hut when he was young and brought the difficulties of this life home to me while I researched his family history. I can imagine the shock for my grandmother ending up in Alberta in a sod house with two young toddlers. They were in the Bow Valley, and their land grant would have been close to Calgary. They appeared in Alberta for the 1911 census but returned to BC soon after. My grandparents split up around 1917.
