City of Regina Archives Photograph Collection, CORA-E-7-19

Title: Dilapidated shack
Date: 1927
Retrieval Number: CORA-E-7.19
Extent: 1 B&W print mounted on album page; 12 cm x 8 cm 
Scope and Content Note: Dilapidated shack in Germantown
Access Restrictions: None Photographer: Unknown
Parent fonds/collection: Public Health Album
Historical Note: Germantown 's residents were relatively new arrivals to the Queen City , but their demographic strength within the city soon grew. Many of the new immigrants were from Germany , as Germantown 's name would indicate, but most of these newcomers were from the Russian or Austro-Hungarian empire. These “Galicians”, as they were often called, were looked upon with contempt by many Protestant, Ango-Saxon residents of Regina . They worked as labourers and seldom owned property within the city, so they were a disenfranchised group. They resided mainly in Germantown in houses that were little more than shacks, with no running water, sewers, or electricity, and since most of them did not own property, they were unable to vote in favour of extending these modern conveniences into Germantown .