Assignment # 5:The Early Settlers

Hello Readers,

As we all know the weather outside is very cold and can give people frostbite in less than 10 minutes if they are not protecting themselves. You know though if we get cold it is not a big deal because we can just go inside a house or a store and warm up, or we have fireplaces,heaters, furnaces and many layers of clothes or blankets. But you know what, you might not remember them but the early settlers (also known as the pioneers) did not have any of those things that I mentioned. Yet they traveled all over Canada with not much of anything but themselves and the people around them. Sure they might of had some food and supplies but not much because most was not invented back then or they did not want to take much with them on their long journey.

The early settlers had to face cold and warm weather while they traveled through Canada and had to rely on the fur trade to keep them warm. Along the way many of the pioneers had died and many have gotten sick but the others kept going, they had to, they were the ones that were looking for freedom and bigger land. They had to trust themselves and the people around them to keep going and never stop.


The pioneers had to face weather and illnesses but also they had to build houses and take care of family. They build their houses from the ground up and they had family members to care about too. If the family would need something to help them like food or wood for fire then they would have to go out and find them as well as sometimes things did not always work out so what happened was maybe it was too cold and they had to go find some fire wood or food but they could not because there might be snow on the ground or it might be to cold to go out and they would have to stay in the houses they had all night or whatever time it took to be able to go and get the stuff they needed. Sometimes they might even of had to just go out and face the cold and get the stuff because they really needed it. But when you look at all this stuff today you think that compared to the pioneers we have a lot more than they do like warm jackets, gloves, mittens and hats so that we can go outside and get what we need.

Some of the reasons why they came to Canada was because they were not allowed the freedom of worship and because the government had taken control over their way of life. Now when I hear something like that it makes me feel bad because we have freedom to do many things that can change the way we live though we have laws and rules too. Also the men were forced into the army and many people had to suffer because they could not afford enough food and supplies to keep them going. As the people tried to earn the money they needed it was much harder than they thought because a lot of the jobs that they had did not pay much back then.

My grandparents came all the way from Austria and they are now living in Toronto. The reason why they came to Canada was to start a new life and to live in a new place. Now we all know that Toronto does not get as much snow as us but yet they still do get some snow but my grandparents lived through it and got on with their lives.

Well what can i say, the pioneers were very strong and lived through very much like all of the different weather and losing members of their crew just to get the freedom they deserve. We should all think about every thing they did and remember that we have it much easier than they did but they were brave and went on through life.

One website that i really liked was saskschools.ca because they had a lot of information and good facts. Also you can check out the Canadian encyclopedia or this one that I found called the life of early pioneers.