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History of Saskatchewan


The ENTIRE History Of Saskatchewan, Canada
(12,000 Years in 63 Minutes)

The ENTIRE History Of Saskatoon, Canada
(143 Years in 82 Minutes)

The complete history of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from its Indigenous origins to 2025. Discover how a temperance colony founded in 1882 became one of Canada's most important prairie cities.

This video covers the entire history of Saskatoon including Indigenous peoples living along the South Saskatchewan River for 6,000 years, the founding of the temperance colony by John Lake in 1882, the North-West Rebellion of 1885, railway arrival in 1890, incorporation as a city in 1906, World War I and World War II impacts, the Great Depression and Dirty Thirties, Tommy Douglas and the birth of Medicare, university growth, resource booms, reconciliation efforts, and modern challenges.

Learn about Saskatoon's transformation from Nutana settlement to modern city, the role of the University of Saskatchewan and Canadian Light Source synchrotron, potash mining industry, agricultural development, Indigenous history and Treaty 6, Métis communities, immigration waves, economic booms and busts, climate change impacts, and urban development.

Topics covered: Saskatoon history, Saskatchewan history, Canadian history, prairie history, Indigenous history, Cree nations, Métis history, Louis Riel, North-West Rebellion, temperance movement, homesteading, railway expansion, World War I Canada, World War II Canada, Great Depression prairies, Tommy Douglas, Medicare origins, CCF NDP history, potash industry, wheat farming, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Light Source, reconciliation Canada, missing and murdered Indigenous women, Starlight Tours, urban development, prairie cities, South Saskatchewan River, Treaty 6, residential schools, immigration Canada, resource economy, climate change prairies.

Perfect for history enthusiasts, Canadians interested in prairie history, students studying Canadian development, and anyone curious about how western Canadian cities evolved from frontier settlements to modern urban centers.

The complete story of Saskatoon from 6,000 years ago to present day - 143 years of city history explained in 70 minutes.

Southwest Stories: A Documentary On Southwest Saskatchewan
The full documentary, filmed over the course of 2014, throughout southwest Saskatchewan.

Twenty Years on the Saskatchewan,N.W. Canada
By the Rev. William Newton, Hon Canon of Saskatchewan (1897). This is a story of a Minister who is appointed to Saskatchewan and so includes information on how he travelled to the Province and then what he found there and what he got up to.
History of Saskatchewan and The Old North West
By Norman Fergus Black
Moose Mountain
A few pictures and info on this area.

Saskatoon's Castle on the River - Bessborough Hotel

Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains
A Diary and Narrative of Travel, Sport, and Adventure, during a journey through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories, in 1859 and 1850 by The Earl of Southesk (1875) (pdf)
Saskatchewan
Published by direction of The Hon. W. R. Motherwell, Commissioner of Agriculture.
Gardening in Saskatchewan
By W. W. Thomson, B.S.A.
New light on the early history of the greater Northwest
The manuscript journals of Alexander Henry ... and of David Thompson ... 1799-1814; exploration and adventure among the Indians on the Red, Saskatchewan, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers by Henry, Alexander, 1765-1814; Thompson, David, 1770-1857; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. (1897) in 3 volumes.
Romance of the Grain Growers of Saskatchewan: history, aims, objects
by Grain Growers of Saskatchewan Association; Musselman, J. B. (1916)
The Progress and Opportunities of Regina
Issued by the Greater Regina Club on the occasion of the visit of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association to Regina, Saskatchewan, September 15, 1910. (pdf)
Strengthening Rural Canada
Fewer & Older: Population and Demographic Crossroads in Rural Saskatchewan (pdf)
Short History of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada (pdf)
Videos about Saskatchewan
Oil Industry, Speech by Premier, Agriculture, etc.
Views from Fort Battleford
Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West by Walter Hildebrandt (2008) (pdf)
The Canadian North-West
It's early development and legislative records, Minutes of the Councils of the Red River Colony and the Northern Department of Ruper's Land (in two volumes) Edited by Prof. E. H. Oliver of the University of Saskatchewan (1914)
The Unexploited West
By Ernest J (John) Chambers (1914) (pdf)
Memories of Early Walsh and Graburn
By Margaret Fulton (pdf)

Canada Over The Edge: The Rolling Plateaus of Saskatchewanty


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