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Touring the past – photo essay

By

Jenelle Lippai ,

Karen Briere

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Published: October 13, 2022

Tools of the egg trade are on display in the barn, where Plymouth Barred Rock chickens make their home. The breed was common more than 100 years ago when the farm was established. | Karen Briere photo

Tools of the egg trade are on display in the barn, where Plymouth Barred Rock chickens make their home. The breed was common more than 100 years ago when the farm was established. | Karen Briere photo

Members of the Canadian Farm Writers Federation met in Regina late last month for their annual convention.

The conference included a tour of the Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site near Abernethy, Sask.

William Richard Motherwell was Saskatchewan’s first agriculture minister and a federal agriculture minister under Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

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The historic site provides visitors a glimpse of agricultural life in Saskatchewan in 1907.

A basket of eggs sit in the barn window. | Karen Briere photo

A Plymouth Barred Rock chicken poses for the camera. | Jenelle Lippai photo

Sheldon Matsalla, one of the tour guides, discussing Motherwell Homestead’s garden. | Jenelle Lippai photo

This flock of Shropshire sheep didn’t quite know what to make of the tour group. Shropshires were once common but are now on the rare breed list. | Karen Briere photo