also in the valley but near what is now the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. The Hudson's Bay Company itself first used the name for a post north of present-day Whitewood (some 174 kilometres east of Regina on Number 1 Highway) from 1813 to 1819. ...
Alice Adams, born Rutherford, was teaching at an elementary school in rural Saskatchewan at the start of the Second World War. She came across a recruitment notice for the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service and went to Saskatoon to enlist at HMCS Unicorn, a naval reserve division of the...
The Northwest Mounted Police occupied the fort just prior to the Riel Rebellion but abandoned it, as being indefensible, after the nearby Duck Lake Skirmish in 1885. The fort burned down shortly thereafter. Today, the restored fort is a provincial historic park. [Saskatchewan, Environment and ...