Question 1 Norwegians were hesitant to immigrate to Canada before 1900 because they were more interested in the land on the American frontier. True or False Question 2 Sivert and Anna Westvick raised their family of five girls to work on the homestead and cultivate their land on the prairie. True or False Question 3 The immigrant town of New Norway was destroyed by drought, dust storms and pestilence which swept across the Canadian prairies in the 1930s. True or False Question 4 Norwegian immigrant Herman Smith-Johannsen, earned his nickname of Jackrabbit from the Cree Indians who admired his ability to hunt rabbits. slalom at high speeds down heavily-wooded slopes in the Canadian Laurentians. True or False