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Water - The Wood River
From pre history to the present
McCord ,Saskatchewan Canada
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Credits:
Audrey Wilson photo

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Settlers use water for animals.
1910 -1915
McCord area of south central Saskatchewan

Credits:
McCord and District Museum

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Pioneers used wells and hand pumps to get water.
1909 -1950
McCord and southern Saskatchewan
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Credits:
Ian C Wilson

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Settlers used cisterns to catch and save rain water.
1928 -1980
McCord and southern Saskatchewan
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Credits:
Audrey Wilson

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Settlers use water container at Varsity school and at picnics.
Mid 1940s -1998
Varsity School area south of McCord,Sk.

Credits:
McCord and District Museum

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Pioneers cut and use ice from the Wood River
1925
McCord area of south central Saskatchewan

Credits:
McCord and District Museum

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Pioneers cut and use ice from the Wood River
1925
McCord area of southern Saskatchewan
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Credits:
McCord and District Museum

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Ice plow that was pulled by a horse and used to cut blocks of ice.
1913 -1950
McCord and southern Saskatchewan

Credits:
McCord and District Museum

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Pioneers use a tank wagon to haul water.
1920 -1930
McCord and southern Saskatchewan

Credits:
McCord and District Museum

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Pioneers use the Wood River for a leisurely afternoon visiting place.
1909 -1915
McCord area of southern Saskatchewan

Credits:
McCord and District Museum

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Wood River in a recent early spring
2011
McCord area of southern Saskatchewan

Credits:
Audrey Wilson photo

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Pioneers use water in an early flood irrigation project (earthen dike to catch spring runoff)
Late 1930s -1950s
South of Mankota and McCord,Sk.

Credits:
Audrey Wilson photo