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Frenchman's Butte, Battle of
Frenchman's Butte, September 1947. After General Middleton and his 5,000-man North-West Field Force arrived from Ottawa to quell the 1885 Resistance, the force split into three columns. The main one, commanded by Middleton, marched on Louis Riel's self-proclaimed capital of Batoche. A second column, commanded by Colonel William Otter, moved against Poundmaker's band.
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<%@include file="menu.html" %> Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. For assistance in exploring this site, please click here. If you have feedback regarding this entry please fill out our feedback form. Founded in 1829 and located at a large bend in the North Saskatchewan River, Fort Pitt was the Hudson's Bay Company's major trading post between Fort Carlton and Fort Edmonton.
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Burial site of the victims of the 1885 Frog Lake battle; names are inscribed on the large cross in the middle, which is surrounded by smaller unmarked wooden crosses. Although it was not a military engagement, the incident known as the Frog Lake Massacre proved to be one of the most influential events associated with the North-West Resistance.
The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
In July 1962, doctors in Saskatchewan began a provincewide general strike that marked the peak of a conflict between organized medicine and its allies against the government's Medicare bill. One of the great crucibles of provincial history, the issues surrounding the strike divided communities and even families.
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Recognized as the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ most outstanding quarterback, Ron Lancaster continued to make important contributions to the Canadian Football League long after his paying career. Born in Fairchance, Pennsylvania on October 14, 1938, Lancaster played college football at Wittenburg University in Ohio and was signed by the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1960. He alternated at quarterback with Russ Jackson before being traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1963.
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In the summer of 1931, 600 men and boys worked in the almost two dozen underground mines of the Souris coal Fields of southeastern Saskatchewan. They laboured ten hours a day in subterranean Coal seams sometimes not big enough to allow a miner to stand up. In the Crescent Mine and Eastern Collieries, one to two feet of water routinely collected in the work areas. Western Dominion Collieries was notorious for not replacing damaged or rotted timbers, and roof cave-ins were frequent.
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John Palliser, an aristocrat who served in the British army, first explored the North American west in 1847 and 1848 when he travelled from Louisiana to modern-day Montana. In 1856 he began securing sponsorship for a second expedition in what is today western Canada. His funding (and much of his instruction) came from the Royal Geographical Society, the British Colonial Office, and the Hudson's Bay Company.
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On March 5, 1998, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond became the first Treaty Indian to be appointed Provincial Court Judge in Saskatchewan. Born Mary Ellen Turpel at Norway House, Manitoba, her academic background includes a BA (Carlton University), LLB (Osgoode Hall Law School), LLM (Cambridge University), SJD (Harvard), and a Certificate of International and Comparative Law of Human Rights (University of Strasbourg).
Boise State researchers broadcast whitewater rapid noise for ID bat, bird study | Idaho Statesman
Search Home eEdition Coronavirus Living Here Obituaries Contests Advertise Classifieds Jobs Place An Ad About Us Mobile & Apps Archives Environment A remote speaker, powered by a solar panel, plays the sound of whitewater rapids in Idaho's Pioneer Mountains. This white noise is used in a Boise State study to see how birds and bats respond to natural noise, and to see if they adapt or stay away. RELATED STORIES TRENDING Copyright Privacy Policy Do Not Sell My Personal Information Terms of Service
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