Eighty Years on the Plains: Part 2

Sept. 1948: Marie Rose Smith chronicles her personal experiences of life on the Prairies

Eighty Years on the Plains: Part 2 by Marie Rose Smith Beginning with Chapter 3, Marie describes a variety of “home industries” such as pemmican-making and tanning hides. She also recounts the utility of Red River carts, stories of indian warfare, and the devastating effects of smallpox. More from the Canadian Cattlemen website: Eighty years on […] Read more

Eighty Years on the Plains: Part 1

June 1948: Marie Rose Smith chronicles her personal experiences of life on the Prairies

Canadian Cattlemen has been chronicling the role of the cattle industry since 1938. Now it is time to share some of these stories in this new Pages From Our Past section. Watch for regular updates. Comments and suggestions are welcome. You can reach us via the editor at [email protected]. Eighty Years on the Plains: Part 1 […] Read more


Railroad yarns

This is an excerpt from “Some Railroad Yarns” written by R.E. Gard, University of Wisconsin, in the March, 1946 issue of Canadian Cattlemen. Alberta is a great railway province. Do you know that there have been something like 125 railways chartered in Alberta? Of course, only a very small per cent of this number actually […] Read more