Seager Wheeler Historic Farm Society Inc.

The Soil is ours to make or mar, and we should aim to leave it when the time comes for us to pass it on, in as good or better condition than when it first came under our hand.” 
Seager Wheeler, 1919 

The Seager Wheeler Farm National Historic Site preserves the homestead of the five-time World Wheat Growing Champion, Dr. Seager Wheeler 6 km east of Rosthern on Highway #312. Join us on Open Farm Days, or any other day we’re open over the summer months, to hear Wheeler’s story and to experience prairie agricultural history.  

 They had so many changes to make to just survive – how to build a shelter, how to plant, what to plant and how to get your crop to market with few roads and no rail road.   And once the shelter is built, how to go about gathering and preserving food with no electricity.  The adaptions that Seager Wheeler made in agriculture made him the “Wheat King”.  His prize wining Marquis, Kitchener and Red Bobs wheat and other oats and barley varieties made agriculture in the prairies practicable.  In addition, he developed a number of fruit and shelterbelt varieties.  

Join us for a tour. Wheeler, his mother, brother and sister came with high hopes in 1885 to what was then Canada’s North West Territories.  But, how to live in a space that was so different than the Isle of Wight home they had left? 

Come at other times:  Come for the blooming peonies in June, for the saskatoons and rodeo in mid-July, for the cherries in early August for our Threshing Week, the second week of September.