Did You Know...
- Cypress Hills in southwest Saskatchewan is the highest point of land between Labrador and the Rocky Mountains.
- Eastend features one of only 12 T-Rex skeletons in the world.
- Deserts in Saskatchewan?
Great Sand Hills is 1900 sq. km of desert-like dunes.
- Sceptre is home to the world's largest wheat sculpture.
- The 17th hole at Elmwood Golf Course in Swift Current is known as "The Wallows" from depressions left by wild bisons ages ago.
- The Willow Bunch Museum is a tribute to Edouard Beaupre, the Giant who stood over 8 feet tall.
- The famous mobster, Al Capone, is rumoured to have run bootleg liquor from Moose Jaw. The underground passages are called the Tunnels of Little Chicago.
- Outside of Moose Jaw is the Sukanen Ship - the ocean-going vessel built by Tom Sukanen.
- Gravelbourg - considered by some to be the heart of French culture in Saskatchewan.
- Estevan is the "Sunshine Capital of Canada". It averages more hours of sunshine per year than any other city in the country.
- The city of Melville is named after Charles Melville Hays who went down with the Titanic in 1912.
- Macklin holds the World Bunnock Championship Challenge. Bunnock is a German-Russian game palyed with horse ankle bones.
- Lloydminster is Canada's only border city. Main street is the 4th meridian flanked by 100 ft. high border markers.
- Little Manitou Lake is denser than the Dead Sea. It contains mineral water three times saltier than ocean water.
- Manitou Beach is home of Danceland - where the dance floor is built on horse hair.
- Athabasca Sand Dunes are the world's most northernly major sand dunes with some as high as 30 metres.
- Grey Owl's cabin is located in Prince Albert National Park.
- The Big Muddy Badlands were known as Station #1 on Butch Cassidy's outlaw trail.
- Louis Riel and the NorthWest Rebellion was the last military conflict on Canadian soil.
- Saskatchewan has nearly 100,000 freshwater lakes. It would take 270 years for one man to fish each lake every day.
