Immigration Hall Site and The Old Wagon

Immigration Hall - A very large fieldstone, with a historical plaque on it, marks the area where a large shed-type building existed in the the1880s - 1890s. It was built to house the many immigrants who came to Saltcoats to find their homesteads. It had a communal kitchen and would house multiple families as they arrived and stayed before they could get supplies and move on to their 1/4 section of land. We honour all those hardy pioneers who came with a mixture of fear and anticipation to establish a new life for themselves and their families in the area surrounding what was then Stirling, in the District of Assiniboia, North West Territories.

The trees around and near the stone were all planted, as the landscape around Saltcoats when the pioneers came was almost treeless. There were only trees around bodies of water. The buffalo and prairie fires kept the plains as grasslands.

An old wagon decorated seasonally is nearby. The wagon was given by Bud and Betty McKinnon.