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Village Office
Box 176,
Goodsoil, SK
S0M 1A0
Phone
306.238.2094
Fax
306.238.2098
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 		  The History

How It Started

Father SchultzIn 1926 Father J. Schultz, pastor of the Sacred Heart Church and F.J. Lange, Sr.(both then residents in the Denzil, Sask. community) initiated the provision of much needed land for an expanding population in the St. Joseph's Colony as well as for newly arrived immigrants from Europe. Father Schultz

A major goal of this colonization project was definitely to provide a high degree of homogeneity within the colony. Both ethnic and religious affiliation were kept in mind. This selective approach resulted in three large colonies of primarily German, Catholic settlers.

May we appreciate our heritage. There is strength in numbers, strength in the binding forces of religion, strength in language and in cultural bonds, while it was all of these which motivated the approach. In response to the invitations, the advertising and the proffering of homesteads to all who responded, people flowed into the new St. Boniface Colony from the older colonies in Saskatchewan, from the German speaking countries in Western Europe, and from the U.S.A. Together they built Goodsoil and its prosperous countryside.
WW1 soldier
The vision, enthusiasm and the physical and spiritual contributions of the founders and settlers of the colony are all to be recognized in their immensity when one appreciates the benefits enjoyed and reaped by those who responded to the call. The good life was much enhanced by having, as neighbors, people who spoke the same language, who sang the same songs, who enjoyed the same foods, who even went, for the greater part, to the same church. When one happens to be born into a community with such bonding characteristics one frequently takes it all for granted and forgets to thank those who went before us, and who contributed so magnanimously to our comforts -- both physical and spiritual. Hats off to those who did so much for so little!

Please select a decade.
The Roaring Twenties

- Radio was becoming a necessity.
- The Twenties was one of the best decades before the Great Depression.
- Divorce rates were rising but the women’s place was in the home, and her job was wife and mother.
- To be single at twenty-five was not good.
- Few women worked out of the home and those who did took humble jobs, often jobs of menial work.
- Short skirts and short hair were in.

The Dirty Thirties

Old Essex car - The decade of the Dionne Quintuplets.
- These were the times of Depression and war rumors.
- There was drought on the prairies.
- Much unemployment and young men riding the rails looking for work.
- Electricity was coming into existence and electrical appliances.
- Zippers instead of buttons
- Dial phones.
- Ice boxes
- Self-Starting cars, cranking cars going out
- 1939 – second world war

The Frantic Forties

plowing with horses - War for the first five years of this decade
- Women went to work where men had been
- Living standards went up fifty per-cent from 1938-48
- Social insurance, family allowances, and unemployment insurance came into effect
- White margarine was to be found in many homes, along with the little packages of color so you could make it look like butter
- 1945 – war ends, women go back to being in the home and there is a baby boom
- Home permanents came in, many a woman had the “frizzy” look
- Skirts were longer and slacks were in

threshing machine










 
The Fabulous Fifties

- More women went into the work force
- This was the time of teenage drinking, hula hoops, bikinis, rock and roll, fluoridated water, T.V. munching and Elvis
- Remember the cut and Saddle oxfords

Goodsoil Union Hospital The Swinging Sixties

- We got a new flag
- Expo ’67 took place, and Separatism was escalating
- Church attendance was down
- Doctors made less house calls
- A noticeable deterioration in respect for authority
- The Canada pension plan came into effect


 
museum The Seventies

- Clothes were getting more sensible and versatile
- Violence was getting worse
- Non-Smokers were fighting for their rights
- Long hair was going out





 
The Escalating Eighties

- High interest rates, recession, high unemployment, test tube babies
- Acid rain, assassination attempts, the space age

All Information on this page was taken with permission from "The Memorable Years: Goodsoil & District 1928-1982", published and compiled by The Goodsoil History Book Core Committee, The Goodsoil Museum Committee and The Goodsoil and District Senior Citizens History Group, 1982.
 
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