Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration National Historic Event

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Settlers who left farms in the "dry belt" areas in southern Saskatchewan moving along No. 4 Highway north of Battleford into the Meadow Lake - Loon Lake district, 1930 (© Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / PA-044575)
Settlers leaving farms, 1930
(© Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / PA-044575)
Address : TBD

Recognition Statute: Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date: 2025-02-07
Dates:
  • 1935 to 1935 (Significant)
  • 2009 to 2009 (Significant)
  • 1940 to 1940 (Significant)

Other Name(s):
  • Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration  (Designation Name)
  • Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA)  (Acronym)
Research Report Number: 2024-02, 2024-02-A

Importance: Federal government program aimed at improving the severe drought and soil erosion conditions faced by many farming and ranching families living in the prairies provinces during the Great Depression of the 1930s