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The House On the Lot

The House On the Lot

Julie YuJulie YuFebruary 10, 2021prairie history, chinese, history, restaurant, Zenith, Cafe, Wynyard, Saskatchewan, photos, waiters, Exclusion Act Canada, Canada, Prairie, Western Canada, Chinese Nationalist Party, Julie Yu, Ed Stachyruk, BakeryComment

The Winchester Rifle and Indigenous Peoples in the Paton Photo Collection

The Winchester Rifle and Indigenous Peoples in the Paton Photo Collection

Taytyn Dwernychuk-WelcherTaytyn Dwernychuk-WelcherJanuary 27, 2021Saskatchewan History & Folklore SocietyIndigenous authored, Indigenous history, Indigenous, Rifle, Winchester, Henry, Saskatchewan, arms and ammunition, gun, huntingComment

Autograph Books are Just Like Social Media

Autograph Books are Just Like Social Media

Sheri HathawaySheri HathawayDecember 9, 2020Saskatchewan History and Folklore SocietyAutographs, autograph books, social history, #womenhist, Hathaway, Saskatchewan, History, childhood, school, friends, poetry, verse, signingComment

The Big Move: From California to Saskatchewan, 1969

The Big Move: From California to Saskatchewan, 1969

Joan ChampJoan ChampNovember 25, 2020Champ, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Forestry, 1970s, Moving, family, teenage, childhood, band, adolescenceComment

World War II Telegraphs: An Interview with Grant Falhman

World War II Telegraphs: An Interview with Grant Falhman

Bill ArmstrongSK History & FolkloreNovember 11, 2020Saskatchewan History and Folklore SocietyRemembrance Day, November 11, WWII, Telegram, rural history, history, saskatchewan, war, grief, loss, forgiveness, telegraph, communicationsComment

Revisiting the Northwest Mounted Police Trail

Revisiting the Northwest Mounted Police Trail

Connie SykesConnie SykesOctober 28, 2020Saskatchewan History and Folklore SocietyTrail, walking, pilgrimage, saskatchewan, history, nature, grasslands national park, cypress hills, pinto butte, val marieComment

In the Fall

In the Fall

Garry RadisonGarry RadisonOctober 14, 2020Saskatchewan, Garry Radison, Kamsack, Childhood, Dogs, fire, autumn, fall, bonfire, burning, boyhood, friendshipComment

Purity Meats: A Place You Can Trust

Purity Meats: A Place You Can Trust

Bob FriedrichSK History & FolkloreSeptember 30, 2020Saskatchewan, Regina, Germantown, Heritage Neighborhood, butcher, shop, family-owned, Depression, german, Friedrich, meat, business, history, yqrComment

Crop Circles

Crop Circles

Marilyn FreyMarilyn FreySeptember 16, 2020harvest, Saskatchewan, women, wheat, farm wife, field meal, ford meteor, lost, agriculture, farming, slow cooker, marriageComment

“Today is the Day We Live”: Willa Dallard, one of SK’s Pioneering Settlers of African Descent

“Today is the Day We Live”: Willa Dallard, one of SK’s Pioneering Settlers of African Descent

Ebele MogoEbele MogoSeptember 2, 2020Saskatchewan History and Folklore SocietyAfrican-Canadian History, Black history, Black Pioneers, Saskatchewan, SK, Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum, Willa Dallard, Willa Bowen Dallard, Phyllis Dallard Johnson, Ebele Mogo, Racial Discrimination, Racism in Canada, RacismComment

“A factor to be reckoned with”: The Saskatoon Local Council of Women in its First Ten Years

“A factor to be reckoned with”: The Saskatoon Local Council of Women in its First Ten Years

Tyla BetkeTyla BetkeAugust 19, 2020Saskatchewan History and Folklore SWomen, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Organizing, Clubs, Saskatoon Local Council of Women, Christina Murray, WWIComment

A Brief History of Saskatchewan’s Pioneering Settlers of African Descent

A Brief History of Saskatchewan’s Pioneering Settlers of African Descent

A Métis Jazz Band: The Crescent Lake Rascals

A Métis Jazz Band: The Crescent Lake Rascals

Wilmar ShingooseWilmar ShingooseJuly 22, 2020Saskatchewan History and Folklore SocietyJazz, band, Saskatchewan, allary school, Crescent Lake, Métis, 1950s, music, school, saxophone, Crescent Lake Rascals, songs, Big BandComment

Servant of the North: Sask Government Airways

Servant of the North: Sask Government Airways

James WinkelJames WinkelJuly 8, 2020Saskatchewan History and Folklore Societyairplane, plane, Saskatchewan, history, aviation history, norseman, aircraft, Air ambulance, Sask Government Airways, CCF, Tommy Douglas, Joe Phelps, Everett Baker, Northern SaskatchewanComment

A Modern Family on the Pow Wow Trail

A Modern Family on the Pow Wow Trail

Robert SeverightRobert SeverightJune 24, 2020Pow wow, Cote First Nation, Kahkewistahaw, Indigenous history, Saskatchewan, Traditional Dancer, Grass Dancer, regalia, grand entry, Robert Severight, hospitality, drum, dance, singingComment

Don Campbell and the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance

Don Campbell and the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance

Will ChabunWill ChabunJune 10, 2020airplane, plane, saskatchewan, history, aviation history, norseman, aircraft, Air ambulance, fairchild husky, cessna 195Comment

Sex and the City: Saskatoon was a Wide-Open Town

Sex and the City: Saskatoon was a Wide-Open Town

Candice KleinCandice KleinMay 27, 2020sex, sexuality, history, Canada, Saskatchewan, blue theatres, pornography, sex work, disco, The Cave Restaurant, Saskatoon, YXEComment

Lakota Place Names in Southwestern Saskatchewan

Lakota Place Names in Southwestern Saskatchewan

Peddling to Make Ends Meet

Peddling to Make Ends Meet

Habeeb SalloumHabeeb SalloumApril 29, 2020Saskatchewan History and Folklore Societyhomesteading, peddling, peddlers, Saskatchewan, southern saskatchewan, family, chickpeas, Lebanon, Syria, Immigration, Salloum, Gouverneur, mukaarii, farming, agricultureComment

Sputnik Over Saskatchewan

Sputnik Over Saskatchewan

Bev LundahlBev LundahlApril 15, 2020Sputnik, Saskatchewan, prairie, space race, rural, farm, stargazing, astronomy, 1957, fudgeComment