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The Drylanders The film The Drylanders takes a look at the ups and downs of early farm life in Saskatchewan. This film shows us a family moving from the city to the prairies to start a new life. It shows the great harvest of 1927 and how lack of rain can affect the whole prairie life style. Most of all it illustrates how hard it was to adjust to these new lands. The film The Drylanders …

…children would die in the cold winters. The first harvest did not go well, it was ruined by hail a hail storm. This really hurt the families’ ego. Although there were good and bad times “the drylanders” were able to make it through both with smiles and with tears. If it were not for these brave men or women who labored over this land who knows what kind province Saskatchewan would have evolved into today.