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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Naicam is a small town in rural Saskatchewan. It is located 224 km (139 miles) north of the province's capital city, Regina. In 2006 the population was 690.Naicam has its own weekly newspaper, The Naicam News. It also receives several radio stations from both Saskatoon and Regina. The local cable television company for the Naicam area is Image Cable. SaskTel provides cellular service to the area.The Town of Naicam offers water, sewer and power to all households and businesses. Provincial bus service is provided by Saskatchewan Transit Company (STC). Saskatchewan Highway 6 and Saskatchewan Highway 349 both serve the town. There is a local airstrip located adjacent to the town. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Togo is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Togo is located 0.5 miles west of the Manitoba border and approximately 45 miles northeast of Yorkton. In 1906 the Russo-Japanese war was raging and two names stood out, Admiral Togo of the Japanese fleet and General Makaroff of Russia. In 1906 Pelly Siding was incorporated as a village and renamed Togo after the Japanese admiral, and the next town to the east on the CNR line (5 miels) was named Makaroff (Manitoba) in honour of the Russian general. Despite the small population, Togo still maintains a post office,Lutheran church,credit union, curling/skating rink, drop in centre, and small hotel with bar. Besides farming locals enjoy some of the best fishing in the country (see: Lake of the Prairies) and of course, hockey! ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yellow Grass is a town in southern Saskatchewan, Canada at 49°44′N 104°15′W / 49.733°N 104.25°W / 49.733; -104.25. It is located 30 km northwest of Weyburn, at the junction of provincial highways 39 and 621. The town is located on the Canadian Pacific Railway Soo Line. The elevation is at 1875 feet (572 m) above sea level. The town was founded as an unincorporated village and named after the yellow prairie grass that surrounds the area. The town was built shortly after the railway line was completed in 1893. The town site itself was surveyed in 1882. The town applied to the Northwest Territories government July 22, 1903 and became an incorporated village. On February 15, 1906 Yellow Grass was incorporated as a town. The town itself has a primarily agricultural based economy. Like other Saskatchewan rural communities the town has seen a large portion of young residents leave to find work in other parts of Canada. Yellow Grass has grown little since the boom years in the early twentieth century; many resident families are descendants of the original pioneers. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wolseley (Canada 2006 Census population 782) is a town in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, approximately 100 km east of Regina on the Trans-Canada Highway.Wolseley's Provincial Court House building was constructed in 1893, and is the oldest surviving court house building in the province. The Town Hall and Opera House, built in 1906, is a classic building and is used for many community events. Canada's very first Beaver Lumber was opened in Wolseley by co-founder E. A. Banbury. Beaver Lumber is now protected by Heritage status. The Banbury House Inn, which was originally built in 1905 as the private home for E. A. Banbury, was moved from its original location on the north bank of Fairly Lake to the west end of Wolseley to allow expansion of Lakeside Care Home in the 1980s. The Banbury House Inn now serves as a bed and breakfast. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Parkside is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The village has the peculiarity of being antipodal to Heard Island, a territory of Australia in the southern Indian Ocean.Saskatchewan Listeni /səˈskætʃɪwɑːn/ is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588,276 square kilometres (227,100 sq mi). Saskatchewan is bounded on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the American states of Montana and North Dakota. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wapella is a village of 354 located Northwest of Moosomin on the Trans-Canada Highway.Moosomin is a town in southern Saskatchewan founded in 1882.With the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1882, Moosomin was established as the first Saskatchewan community on "steel". Originally known as "siding No. 4" and the "Moosomin Station", businesses began to establish and by 1884 the community had grown to include five general stores, five hotels, two livery stables, two blacksmiths, a doctor, a lawyer, butcher, and one printer, among other businesses. Moosomin was incorporated as a town in November, 1887, R. D. McNaughton was the first merchant to arrive in Moosomin. He founded the R. D. McNaughton Company, a general store operation that played a vital role in early settlement. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Parkbeg is a hamlet in Wheatlands Rural Municipality No. 163, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hamlet is located at the junction of Highway 1 and Highway 627 approximately 58 km directly west of the City of Moose Jaw on the Trans Canada Highway.Parkbeg, like so many other small communities throughout Saskatchewan, has struggled to maintain a sturdy population causing it to become a semi ghost town with only a few citizens. Prior to December 31, 1957, Parkbeg was incorporated under village status, but was restructured to hamlet status under the jurisdiction of the Rural municipality of Wheatlands on that date. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Palliser is a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.It is named in honour of John Palliser, a geographer and explorer of the Canadian west.It includes Moose Jaw, the southwest quarter of Regina and the rural areas around them.The electoral district was created in 1996 from Regina-Lumsden, Moose Jaw-Lake Centre, Regina-Wascana and Swift Current-Maple Creek-Assiniboia ridings. ... Read more

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Chapters: Carlton Park, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Carlton Park is a small neighbourhood that is located between Marquis Road, 6th Avenue East, 28th Street East, and 15th Avenue East. It is part of the east side of Prince Albert. According to 2001 statistics, Carlton Park had had a population of 2,940, which was 8.79% of the Prince Albert's population. 23.30% of Carlton Park' population is of Aboriginal descent. That equals out to 6.73% of the city's total Aboriginal population. The government system is run under the three levels of Canada's governmental system. Fred Matheson and Martin are the current councilors for wards 5 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prairie Rose No. 309, Saskatchewan, is a rural municipality of 292 rural residents (2006 census) in the central part of Saskatchewan, Canada. The RM was incorporated December 12, 1910. Other localities in the area include the village of Jansen and the hamlet of Esk. A rural municipality is an administrative district consisting of an elected reeve, councilors, administrator who provide essential services within their area. Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588,276 square kilometres (227,100 sq mi) and a population of 1,041,700 (according to 2010 estimates), mostly living in the southern half of the province. Of these, 257,300 live in the province's largest city, Saskatoon, while 194,971 live in the provincial capital, Regina. Other major cities, in order of size, are Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current and North Battleford. ... Read more

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Discusses the history, geography, and culture of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. ... Read more