Posts in Category: Saskatchewan
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Batoche – The Last Major Battle on Canadian Soil
I have to confess that for many years, my feelings about Louis Riel and the outcome of the two Métis rebellions he led, were quite mixed. Over the years my views on him have evolved from – 1. treasonous rebel who deserved to be hanged to 2. misunderstood madman who probably shouldn’t have been hanged […]
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John Diefenbaker – Saskatchewan’s Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker was, with the possible exception of Pierre Trudeau, just about the most polarizing Prime Minister in Canadian history. Dief the Chief, as he was often referred to in the press, was, at the same time, a great orator and an occasional babbling fool. It took the electorate five times to finally give the […]
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Grasslands National Park – 10 Reasons To Visit
Grasslands National Park is one of the great modern achievements of Parks Canada. One usually thinks of a national park as a pristine environment that has been preserved for all time from the forces of exploitation and development and in most cases that is a correct assumption. Grasslands National Park is quite different. It is […]
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Saskatchewan Grain Elevators – Prairie Icons
This is my fourth post about a recent RV trip through Saskatchewan with my son Dale. The first three, Cypress Hills, Fort Walsh National Historic Site and the small town of Eastend all focused on things most people probably don’t expect to find in Saskatchewan. This post is about something everyone associates with the province, Saskatchewan grain […]
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Eastend Saskatchewan – Three Reasons to Visit
It’s day three of the 2016 RV trip, a ritual that my son Dale and I have been doing for six years. We are leaving our campsite in the Centre Block of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park heading for the west block of Grasslands National Park. It’s been a wonderful two days which I have described in […]
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Fort Walsh N.H.S.- Important to All Canadians
In my last post I described why Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park is a must visit for anyone interested in a totally unique ecological environment that will completely change your mind about Saskatchewan as a tourist destination. What I didn’t describe were the incredibly important historical events that took place here in the late 1800’s that […]
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Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
I lived in northern Manitoba during my formative years and did a lot of travelling on the prairies, first with my family and in later years, on my own. I got to a lot of places, but one I repeatedly looked at on the map and never got to was the Cypress Hills of SE […]