Saskatchewan

We really enjoyed our visit to Manitoba. We thought we'd visit one of the other Prairie Provinces, Saskatchewan. The first good sized city we came to was Prince Albert. We drove along the banks of the North Saskatchewan River. It was so beautiful! We saw a really huge totem pole. One of the tour guides told us that Saskatchewan has a very close relationship with the people of the First Nations. We learned that the city is very proud of the three Canadian Prime Ministers who came from Prince Albert. We visited the Prince Albert Historical Museum and learned that Prince Albert was founded in 1866. Our next stop was Prince Albert National Park. As our bus drove through the park we heard that the park is one of the few places left in the world where timber wolves live undisturbed. We saw bison, coyotes, black bears, otters, elk, white-tailed deer, moose, loons, hare, foxes, lynx, and caribou. We knew that these were wild animals and that we should not get close. On Ajawaan Lake we saw the one room cabin where famous naturalist and author, Grey Owl, lived in the 1930s. There is a movie called Grey Owl that came out in 1999. From there we headed south to the Bridge City, Saskatoon. Saskatoon is the province's largest city. We enjoyed a riverboat cruise through the city. (The city lies on both sides of the South Saskatchewan River.) There were so many things to do here in Saskatoon, we could go to a horse race, take a boat cruise, visit the symphony, see a stock car race or a drag race, or visit the zoo. We decided to take a trip back in time to the Wanuskewin Heritage Park. We saw some native dances and heard a storyteller. We even got to build a teepee and tan a hide. From there we headed south again to Regina, the provincial capital and home of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We arrived just in time to see RCMP Sunset Retreat Ceremonies. It was so cool to see all the Mounties on horseback. We decided to get a few souvenirs in the local shops. There certainly was a lot to choose from. Then we visited the Saskatchewan Science Center. That was really fun! One shop owner told us about a Treaty Four Gathering in Fort Qu’Appelle. It is one the biggest First Nations powwows. We paid a visit to the Sports Hall of Fame and Museum and learned about the best athletes from the province. If we had visited in winter we would have had lots of winter sports to choose from like cross-country skiing. From Regina we headed west through Moose Jaw. During prohibition, Al Capone, a Chicago gangster, used Moose Jaw tunnels for his bootlegging operations. After a tour of the tunnels we jumped back on the bus and headed west for Swift Current. We saw vast wheat fields and large areas of cattle grazing. We arrived just in time for Frontier Days. We caught a Swift Current Indians baseball game before heading out again. Our next stop was Grasslands National Park. The park was really amazing. Our guide told us that the park has both badlands and grassland. There is also a huge area of sand dunes. We saw a black-tailed prairie dog and a pronghorn antelope. The guide also told us that Chief Sitting Bull and his Sioux people found stopped here after the battle of Little Bighorn. We were dying to see Eastend, where a T-Rex "Scotty" was discovered in 1994. We had so much for getting our hands dirty with the Day Dig Program. We had a guide along with us on the bus as we toured the area. We decided to spend our final day in Saskatchewan in Maple Creek, visiting the Cypress Hills Provincial Park. We rode horses, did a little swimming, and played golf. We had such a great time in Saskatchewan that we want to come back in the winter for some more fun like snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, ice fishing, and dog sledding. We were ready to visit the last of the Prairie Provinces, Alberta. Join us there for our next adventure!

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