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Winter Camps for Some Saskatchewan Pioneers

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A Matter of Survival  A "Saskatchewan Weather Video" from You Tube by Joshua Zorn Thanks to JOSHUA ZORN!    Thankfully you wake up! So cold your hair and bedclothes are frozen to the walls of the log cabin you built last summer. Beds were moved from walls.  Dad stoked the fire with wood for heat. It was  a survival of the fittest! Living on the "bald" prairie was just about impossible in the late 1800's and early 1900's.  People did what they had to do to survive. They would move for the winter to the wooded hills or Moose Mountains north of Manor, Carlyle, Arcola, Kisbey or from other places south of what are called mountains. They moved to communal areas in those hills where there was plenty of wood from trees for heat and cooking and a source of water from sloughs. They moved to be near one another for sociability. Called Winter Camps apparently there are several north of Arcola named, "Hog's Hollow,"  "Bennett Lake,&qu