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Farmhouses, Houses, Log, Thatched, Hay, Roofs, Farming, Ranching, Batoche |
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An image of an abandoned farmhouse, with a thatched straw roof and logs bound with chinking mud, around Batoche, SK, circa the 1950s. . Deryk Bodington (1914-), a professional photographer and a freelance writer working out of Calgary, Alberta, donated these images to the Gabriel Dumont Institute. The images were taken in the 1950s-70s and centre on Batoche and its environs. Bodington also donated photographs to the Glenbow Museum and Archives in Calgary and to the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa Ontario. He specialized in Western-Canadian landscapes and rural heritage. |
Bodington, Deryk