Life on a Saskatchewan Farm by Roderic Beaujot
From Horse and Buggy to GPS: Life on a Saskatchewan Farm By Roderic Beaujot Dorothy and Leon Beaujot, Kipling, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2007 Dated: 19 March 2021 From Horse and Buggy to GPS: Life on a Saskatchewan Farm Roderic Beaujot Abstract: This book tells the story of my parents and grandparents, from horse and buggy days to increasing specialization and mechanization in agriculture. My grandparents, Félicien and Bertheline Beaujot and Paul and Julienne Mullie arrived in Canada from Belgium and France over the period 1892 to 1911. After treating the conditions that allowed for European settlement in Western Canada, I summarize the history of the community of Saint Hubert in Southeastern Saskatchewan, where my grandparents lived their lives and my parents Leon and Dorothy Beaujot were married (1945) and are buried (2014). Originally called “La Rolanderie,” this settlement was established in the mid-1880s by “French counts” who sought to start a new life on the prairies of what was then Canada’s North West. While the aristocrats soon returned to Europe, they and others who came at that time had started a vibrant community that has since essentially disappeared, with only the church and cemeteries remaining. This story of my parents and grandparents shows how life changed on family farms: shelter and food, earning a living, family and community. Copyright © by Roderic P Beaujot, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London ON N6A 5C2 Canada Genre: Biography, History Period covered: 1885-2014 Key words: change in agriculture, church, community, education, family, farm, farming, French, language, Saskatchewan, settlement Available as paperback (print on demand) at www.Lulu.com Preprint with Open Science Framework (OSF) at SocArXiv: Beaujot, Roderic P.
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