The Scandinavian Canadian Land Company had first come to Yorkton to set up an office in 1903 in the building next to the Dunlop Block at #27 Broadway Street East. D.M. Frederickson of Chicago was president and John D. Lageson, a graduate of Agriculture from Minnesota was the manager. They were advertising 50,000 acres in the best district of Eastern Saskatchewan. In 1904, they opened an office in Canora. Many of the settlers they invited were Scandinavians whose parents had immigrated to the United States as far back as 1840s and 1850s, and who were naturalized American citizens. Some settled in town and established businesses, but still they had come for free land and many entered on homesteads in the Canora, Preeceville, Ketchen and North Prairie districts.
This edition of History Corner originally ran in the Nov. 18, 2009 edition of Yorkton This Week.
Terri Lefebvre Prince
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