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This is a 1925 photo of men cutting ice on Buffalo Lake.Using ice to preserve food (and make ice cream) after the coolness of winter disappeared was a tool of even the earliest pioneers.
The ice could be preserved for summer use by packing it in sawdust in a log shed.
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Ranching was another huge source of food, not only for our early settlers, but to ship away to the rest of the country and further.In the late 1800's and early 1900's, our Buffalo Lake area was a centre of ranching, with thousands of cattle needing our farmers to produce thousands of tons of hay each season.
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