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Among all the records, landmarks, and museums marking the progress of the west, someone should have erected a monument to the homesteader's horse. Horses tilled our fields, built our roads, and hauled our produce and our consumer goods. They pulled our conveyances, packed supplies to remote developments, herded the cattle and took our children to school.

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Year Round Travel
Circa. 1943
R.M. of Usborne, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Ruth Wildeman
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Round Up
Circa. 1943
R.M. of Usborne, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Ruth Wildeman
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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For winter travel it could be oxen pulling a sleigh or vehicles drawn by horses. Such vehicles could be a cutter, a sleigh, a stone boat or a Storm Bus (caboose). There were times when the oxen balked and refused to travel in the correct direction. Barns were provided near the school to stable the animals. Lanigan area used the bombardier to transport children to school during the winter months. There was a time when several high school students from the neighboring town would catch the train in the morning to attend school in Lanigan and then returned home by catching the evening train. (This was in the early 1940s when the passenger trains ran several times during the day) A music teacher who lived in Lanigan used the train to commute with the surrounding towns in order to give music lessons.

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A Team of Two and Two
Circa. 1900
R.M. of Usborne, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Ida Blair
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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The very useful stoneboat
1940-1950
R.M. of Usborne

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Passenger Train
1940-1950
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Lanigan School Unit No. 40
1950-1960
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lalnigan School Division
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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School Travel
Circa. 1950's
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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2006 School Bus
Circa. 2000
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Marian Barclay writes:

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Marian Barclay writes: "In the summer my Mom used to drive us in a little old antique car, and in the winter we went in a caboose. The caboose was a covered up little sleigh with a stove. They were quite comfortable and warm. You plodded along and you never got there very fast. It was a little better than walking. We played ball, and we went to different schools in an old wagon. We were full of horsehair and dirt when you got there, and you were worse when you go home."

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An Outing
1920-1930
R.M. of Usborne, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Home-made Winter Caboose
circa 1940
R.M. of Usborne, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Blondie Siegel
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.