Horse Drawn School Bus in Birchdale
This is a photograph of the early school bus that serviced the Birchdale School during the winter. Winter school buses had foot warmers inside of them to keep the children warm to and from school. These winter buses had sleigh skids and were pulled by horses. Once the snow was melted in Spring, automobiles could be used to transport the children, if they were available. The man standing next to the horses may be Olaf A. Nelson, who was the first Birchdale School Bus Driver. O
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXXIV
Friday, August 31, 1956 The International Falls Daily Journal article; KIELCZEWSKI FAMILY “PULLS ANCHOR” FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA. As reported, moving day for the ten member Orrah Kielczewski family had it’s problems but the rugged residents of Rainy Lake took them all in stride. The Journal attested that it mattered not that they lived on remote Falls River sixty miles across Rainy Lake nor that their ultimate destination was Prince Rupert, British Columbia neither did they w
