Prairie blizzards were so fierce and blinding that a lifeline was once necessary between the farm house and the outhouse to avoid getting. Things were sometimes not much better in town. Shortly after his arrival at Regina, the new Lieutenant-Governor of the North West Territories, Charles Mackintosh, penned a letter to a friend in […]
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Light of the Great Lone Land shines at Battleford
It is “the light that is destined to dispel the gloom that has so long enveloped the Great Lone Land,” Patrick Gammie Laurie promises in the first issue of his Saskatchewan Herald, August 25, 1878, at Battleford, a fur-trading post and police station chosen as the capital of the North West Territories because […]