Sigurd Røang

Til Canada 1928

SIGURD ROANG HOMESTEAD Sigurd Roang was born in Norway. He came to Canada in the 1920’s, settling around Assiniboia. The language barrier was difficult but he managed to find work repairing tracks for the CPR. Sigurd married Della MacDonald in Assiniboia while working around there. In 1937, like so many others, Sigurd headed north and filed on NW8 –53 –18 W2 in the Snowden area. The family moved shortly. Eight children would be raise on that land. Sigurd preferred hunting and fishing to farming. Farming was never his thing but he did it because that’s what people did to survive in the north. The family lived on a lot of porridge and potatoes. Meat was scarce unless you could catch it in the bush. Eventually wanting more education for the kids and finding survival on the farm too tough, the family moved. Nipawin became their new home and where Sigurd and Della would live out the rest of their lives. Today the land is farmed by Joe Shaddow.

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