Homesteaders Calgary 1885

[Shotgun Steve]

Homesteaders and pet in front of their chinked log cabin, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1885.

[Stillwater]

That is a pretty good looking cabin!

Bill

[kflach]

Does the (apparent) fact that it has glass window panes suggest that these folks were relatively well-to-do or anything like that?

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[Texas Lawdog]

It appears to be a well constructed cabin. The folks appear to be dressed in their better clothes too. The animal appears to be a small deer or an elk calf.

[Delmonico]

Does the (apparent) fact that it has glass window panes suggest that these folks were relatively well-to-do or anything like that?

Not really, by that time pane glass was massed produced and fairly cheap.  I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a sod house wit out glass window.  Besides few homesteaders were that poor.

[Stillwater]

It appears to be a well constructed cabin. The folks appear to be dressed in their better clothes too. The animal appears to be a small deer or an elk calf.

I think that animal is a goat, that wouldn't hold it's head still.

Bill

[kflach]

Sometimes identifying stuff in these pictures is a real pane in the glass, isn't it!

[Texas Lawdog]

Yep, It does sorta resemble a goat, you can almost see the horns.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

I would thinkg that in the long, cold, dark winters up there, glass pane windows would almost be required ....

[TallBaldBellied]

I would thinkg that in the long, cold, dark winters up there, glass pane windows would almost be required ....

Gawd,   I'm glad you said window's instead of goat....................... 

[WaddWatsonEllis]

That would put a whole new meaning to 'getting one's goat' ...

Oops!  Did I say that?

I appologize!