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History Museum Attractions In Saskatchewan

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Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders. It has an area of 651,900 square kilometres , nearly 10 percent of which is fresh water, composed mostly of rivers, reservoirs, and the province's 100,000 lakes. Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota. As of late 2017, Saskatchewan's population was estimated at 1,163,925. Residents primarily live in the southern prairie half of the province, while the northern boreal half is mos...
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History Museum Attractions In Saskatchewan

  • 1. Wanuskewin Heritage Park Saskatoon
    Wanuskewin Heritage Park is a non-profit cultural and historical centre of the First Nations. The site is a National Historic Site of Canada due to the importance of its archaeological resources representing nearly 6000 years of the history of the Northern Plains peoples. In 2016, it was announced that Wanuskewin intends to seek UNESCO World Heritage designation, which would make it the first World Heritage Site in Saskatchewan.
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  • 2. RCMP Heritage Centre Regina
    The RCMP Heritage Centre is a museum located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is owned and operated by an independent nonprofit organization called the Mounted Police Heritage Centre and receives annual funding from all three levels of government. The Centre showcases a number of exhibits featuring the collection of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and these artifacts remain property of the RCMP. The Government of Canada, the Government of Saskatchewan, the City of Regina and the RCMP announced the creation of the facility in early 2005. Construction began in October 2005. The first phase, a 70,000-square-foot , $29-million building, designed by architect Arthur Erickson, is now open. Phase two plans for an additional 8,000 square feet of exhibits within the Centre along with historica...
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  • 3. Ukrainian Museum of Canada Saskatoon
    Ukrainian Canadians are Canadian citizens of Ukrainian descent or Ukrainian-born people who immigrated to Canada. In 2016, there were an estimated 1,359,655 persons of full or partial Ukrainian origin residing in Canada , making them Canada's eleventh largest ethnic group and giving Canada the world's third-largest Ukrainian population behind Ukraine itself and Russia. Self-identified Ukrainians are the plurality in several rural areas of Western Canada. According to the 2011 census, of the 1,251,170 who identified as Ukrainian, only 144,260 could actually speak either the modern Ukrainian language or the historic Canadian Ukrainian dialect.
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  • 5. Weyburn Area Heritage Village Weyburn
    Weyburn is the tenth-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. The city has a population of 10,870. It is on the Souris River 110 kilometres southeast of the provincial capital of Regina and is 70 km north from the North Dakota border in the United States. The name is reputedly a corruption of the Scottish wee burn, referring to a small creek. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Weyburn No. 67.
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  • 6. Meewasin Valley Centre Saskatoon
    The Meewasin Valley Authority is a conservation organization created by the Provincial Government of Saskatchewan in Canada and is dedicated to conserving the cultural and natural resources of the South Saskatchewan River Valley. The authority's activities include education, development and conservation. Centered in Saskatoon, the Conservation Zone of Meewasin runs 60 km along the river valley from the eastern edge of the municipality of Corman Park through Saskatoon to the western edge of Corman Park . The authority is actively involved in the River Landing redevelopment. It is made up of numerous conservation areas, canoe launches, interpretive centres , Yorath Island, the university lands, the best outdoor skating rink in Canada and over 60 km of Meewasin Valley Trail, 22.5 km of which ...
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  • 7. Eastend Historical Museum Eastend
    Eastend is a town in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. It is situated approximately 55 kilometres north from the Montana border and 85 kilometres from the Alberta border. The town is best known for the nearby discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed Scotty in 1994. The town has used the discovery of this fossil as the main centrepiece in the construction of a museum called the T.rex Discovery Centre, which opened on May 30, 2003. The centre is operated by the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, and contains the RSM Fossil Research Station. Eastend has been home to many famous residents, including the writer Wallace Stegner, who lived in the town between 1917 and 1921 and featured it as the village Whitemud in his book Wolf Willow. Today, the former home of Stegner is used as an artists ret...
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  • 8. Melville Heritage Museum Melville
    Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee , a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick . His work was almost forgotten during his last 30 years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic, and the abundance of allusion extends to biblical scripture, myth, philosophy, literature, and the visual arts. Melville was born in New York ...
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  • 11. Unity & District Heritage Museum Unity
    Unity is a town in the western part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan with a population of almost 2600. Unity is located at the intersection of Highway 14 and Highway 21, and the intersection of the CNR and CPR main rail lines. Unity is located 200 km west-northwest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and 375 km southeast of Edmonton, Alberta. The town of Wilkie is located 18.96 miles to the east. The town was the subject of playwright Kevin Kerr's Governor General's Award-winning play Unity , which dramatizes the effect of the 1918 flu pandemic on Unity.
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  • 12. Frenchman Butte Museum Frenchman Butte
    Frenchman Butte is a butte located 45 km northeast of Lloydminster, is named after a Frenchman who was killed there by Indians in the 19th century. It is not known how or why this man was murdered. This was also the site of the Battle of Frenchman's Butte between Major-General Thomas Bland Strange and Cree Chief Big Bear.The site of the battle was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1929.
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  • 14. Mortlach Museum Mortlach
    Mortlach is a village within the Rural Municipality of Wheatlands No. 163, in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Mortlach had a population of 261 at the 2016 Canada Census. The village is located on the Trans Canada Highway about 40 km west of the city of Moose Jaw. Thunder Creek passes the town to the north where it is joined by Sandy Creek. Mortlach became a village on April 19, 1906 and is one of two towns in Saskatchewan to have been incorporated as a town to then be reverted to village status on January 1, 1949, the other is the village of Alsask.
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