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Sainte-Marie, Buffy (Beverly) (1941–) 95% Sainte-Marie, Buffy (Beverly) (1941-) - Singer-songwriter, visual artist, actor, and educator, Buffy Sainte-Marie was born on February 20, 1941, of Cree parents on the Piapot Reserve near Craven, Saskatchewan. Among her earliest Canadian performances were the 1964 Mariposa Folk Festival and Expo '67. Buffy Sainte-Marie recorded several albums, including her highly political first album It's My Way (1964), which won Billboard's Best New Artist award. Always interested in education, Buffy ...
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Papen, Marie-Antoinette (1907–89) 86% Papen, Marie-Antoinette (1907-89) - Marie-Antoinette Papen played a key role during the first two decades of Saskatoon’s CFNS French- language radio station. Born Marie-Antoinette de Margerie on June 9, 1907, in Sainte-Anne-des-Chênes, Manitoba, she taught in Hoey, Saskatchewan, from 1928 until her marriage to Belgian-born homesteader Charles Papen in 1934. M.-A. Papen first taught school near Prud’homme; then, settling in Saskatoon in 1950, she became organizing secretary ...
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Duperreault, Marie-Anne (1885–1976) 83% Despite her heavy obligations as farm wife and mother of twelve, Marie-Anne Duperreault was able to chronicle the main events of life on a farm in the Palliser triangle between 1910 and 1940. Born Marie-Anne Boucher on September 25, 1885, in the Laurentian village of St. Damien de Brandon, she was a school teacher when she married Joseph Duperreault in 1904. She became local correspondent for Saskatchewan’s French-language newspaper, Le Patriote de l’Ouest , soon after it was ...
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Sisters of the Presentation of Mary (PM) 83% Sisters of the Presentation of Mary (PM) - The congregation of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary was founded in the Ardèche, southern France in 1796 by Anne-Marie Rivier to educate young people in academics and in the Catholic faith. Shortly thereafter, Stobart Public School Board in Duck Lake hired Sister Marie-de-la-Trinité to teach in their two-room school. In subsequent years, the Sisters taught in Saskatoon, Marcelin, Prince Albert, Wakaw, Zenon Park, Green Lake, ...
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French Settlements 83% French Settlements - Three explanations for the establishment of series of French bloc settlements across the prairies after the North-West Resistance can be suggested. With the arrival of the French immigrants after the 1885 Rebellion, the Métis settlement of St-Laurent became the nucleus of one of the largest French settlements in the prairies, despite the scattering of the Métis. Today the settlement has a French population numbering about 900, and St-Brieux remains ...
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Roman Catholic Congregations of Men Religious 81% Roman Catholic Congregations of Men Religious - Although Jesuits and other Roman Catholic priests sometimes accompanied early explorers and fur traders in their travels though the western prairies, the first Roman Catholic religious order to establish missions in the Canadian North-West was the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), founded in 1822 by Eugène de Mazenod in France. In the Regina Archdiocese we find Franciscans, Jesuits, Missionaries of the Holy ...
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Lizee, Yvonne (1899–1974) 81% Lizee, Yvonne (1899-1974) - Yvonne Lizée (Sister Marie-éphrem), a gifted artist and musician, was the first Canadian novice and the first Canadian-born convent Superior of the Soeurs de Notre-Dame d'Auvergne, one of many congregations of women seeking refuge in western Canada from France's anti-clerical legislation. She attended a country school, then completed her studies at the convent recently opened by the Soeurs de Notre-Dame d'Auvergne in nearby Ponteix. After Normal ...
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Legare, Jean-Louis (1841–1918) 81% Legare, Jean-Louis (1841-1918) - Jean-Louis Légaré was born in St. Jacques, Montcalm County, Quebec on October 25, 1841, the son of Fran�ois-Xavier Légaré and Julie Melan�on. His Métis employer, Antoine Ouellette, hired Jean-Louis to establish a business in the Wood Mountain area of southern Saskatchewan. The Jean-Louis Légaré Regional Park was established in 1960, and in 1970 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada erected a plaque ...
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Dance 79% Dance Saskatchewan, the umbrella organization for dance in the province, currently lists over 120 dance schools. Regina Modern Dance Works was incorporated in 1974, with seven dancers in the company: Livant and Formolo, with Patrick Hall, Pearl Louie, Allan Risdill, David Weller and Belinda Weitzel. Marie Nychka (director of the Boyan School of Dance and Tavria Ukrainian Ensemble) dreamed of creating a touring ballet company, and soon convinced fellow dancers Lorne Matthews and April Chow ...
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Trottier, Bryan (1956–) 79% Trottier, Bryan (1956-) - A talented all-round player through eighteen NHL seasons, Bryan Trottier was born in Val Marie, Saskatchewan on July 17, 1956. He played junior hockey with the Swift Current Broncos (later Lethbridge) of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League before joining the New York Islanders for the 1975-76 season. Trottier coached the American Hockey League's Portland Pirates for one season and returned to the NHL as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche, helping ...
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Soo Line Railway 79% Soo Line Railway - Founded in 1883 by Minneapolis millers, and known originally as the Minneapolis and then the Saint Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, the Soo Line railway derived its name from the pronunciation of "Sault." The Soo Line was built to provide a shorter, cheaper route for western grain to the eastern seaboard; it was later expanded to Emerson, Manitoba. ...
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Sisters of the Child Jesus 79% Sisters of the Child Jesus - In 1667, Anne Marie Martel, under the direction of a Sulpician priest, began instructing poor uneducated women in the region of Le Puy, France. In 1896 Bishop Paul Durieu of New Westminster, BC, requested Sisters of the Child Jesus to come and teach the Native children in his territory. In the following years, Sisters also came to St. Hippolyte, North Battleford, Albertville, Saskatoon and Jackfish Lake. ...
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Simard, Rose Marie Louise (1947–) 79% Simard, Rose Marie Louise (1947-) - Simard was born April 17, 1947, in Val d’Or, Quebec, and raised in Meadow Lake. Simard was the first woman to hold the position of Legislative Council and Law Clerk for Saskatchewan (1974–78). She left that position to found her own law firm. Simard orchestrated the “wellness” approach to health care that included hospital closures in rural Saskatchewan and the establishment of health districts and boards. ...
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Schmirler, Sandra (1963–2000) 79% Schmirler, Sandra (1963-2000) - Internationally renowned curler Sandra Marie Schmirler was born in Biggar, Saskatchewan on June 11, 1963. In Regina, Schmirler curled as a member of Katy Fahlman's team, which won the 1987 provincial championships. By the 1990-91 season, Schmirler decided to become skip of her own team-Team Peterson (renamed Team Schmirler in 1996-along with Jan Betker, Joan McCusker, and Marcia Gudereit). ...
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Roman Catholic Congregations of Women Religious 79% The next group of Sisters came just before World War I . In 1913 the Sisters of Notre Dame came from Auvergne, France to Ponteix, where they ran a boarding school until 1952 and taught in six public schools (1940-76). The Sisters of Sion also ran boarding schools in Moose Jaw (1914-91) and Saskatoon (1919-66), operated a women's residence in Saskatoon (1917-76), and taught in several elementary schools in both cities. Other teaching orders and their major schools included the Sisters of Our ...
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Great Western Railway 79% Great Western Railway - The Great Western Railway (GWR) is one of a number of short-line railways that grew out of the closure of small country elevators and the desire by the main line railways to consolidate their systems. GWR began operations in September 2000 on four former CP branch lines in southwest Saskatchewan when Wescan Rail, a rail contracting company from Abbotsford, British Columbia, purchased these lines from CP. In 2002, GWR discontinued service on the 22-mile (35 km) ...
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Gallagher, Patricia Marie (1939–) 79% Gallagher, Patricia Marie (1939-) - Patricia Gallagher ( née Young) was born in Vanguard, Saskatchewan on November 20, 1939. Gallagher first became involved with the union movement in 1964, when she was working at the University of Regina ; she was elected to the union negotiating committee and was on the union executive and grievance committee. Gallagher was instrumental in protecting SGEU members’ collective bargaining rights when the Progressive Conservative government moved ...
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Canadian Actors’ Equity Association 79% Canadian Actors' Equity Association - Canadian Actors' Equity is the professional association of performers, directors, choreographers, fight directors and stage managers in English Canada who are engaged in live performance in theatre, opera and dance. It took six years of fighting and a thirty-day strike in 1919, led in part by Canadian actor Marie Dressler, before the theatre managements finally recognized Equity as the actors' rightful bargaining agent. In Saskatchewan, Equity members ...
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Bear, Angus (1907–88) 79% Bear, Angus (1907-88) - For nearly four decades, Angus Bear contributed to the growth of mining and hydro-electric power in northeastern Saskatchewan as a guide and labourer. Born at Mari Lake in 1907, Bear was hired by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting to bring work crews and provisions to the Island Falls Power dam site. He was also an important presence in his own community of Sandy Bay where he helped record the history of the hydro-electricity industry at Island Falls and preserve the ...
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Saulteaux 77% Saulteaux - The Saulteaux or Plains Ojibway (Nahkawininiwak in their language) speak a language belonging to the Algonquian language family; Algonquian people can be found from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains, and from Hudson Bay to the southeastern United States. Algonquian languages comprise Algonkin, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Delaware, Menominee, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sauk/Fox, and Nahkawiwin (Saulteaux). In Saskatchewan, the following First Nations communities have ...
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Riel, Sara (1848–83) 77% Riel, Sara (1848-83) - Sara Riel was one of the first Métis women in the Red River region to join the Grey Nuns ( Sisters of Charity ); she did missionary work for over a decade at Ile-à-la-Crosse in what is now Saskatchewan. Sara Riel joined the Grey Nuns in the latter 1860s; she relocated in June 1871 to Ile-à-la-Crosse, her father's birthplace and the family's ancestral home, and the site of a major missionary effort. Throughout her life, Sara Riel and her brother ...
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Poitras, Edward (1953–) 77% Selected group exhibitions include: A History Lesson , Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2004) and MacKenzie Art Gallery , Regina (2003); Lost Homelands: Manuel Pina, Edward Poitras, Jorma Puranen, Jin-me Yoon , Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown and the Kamloops Art Gallery (traveling 1999-2000); The Post-Colonial Landscape , Mendel Art Gallery (1993); INDIGENA: Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples on 500 Years , Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec ...
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Palliser and Hind Expeditions 77% Palliser and Hind Expeditions - 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. Palliser's expedition left Britain in 1857 and travelled first through the USA before entering Canada at Sault Ste. The Hind expedition was formally named the Canadian Red River, Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition; it was directed and funded by the Province of Canada and led ...
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New Dance Horizons 77% New Dance Horizons - New Dance Horizons is Saskatchewan's only professional dance company. Founded in 1986 by Robin Poitras and Dianne Fraser, its mandate is to support the creation, development, production and presentation of contemporary dance and related performing arts in the province. Guided by an advisory committee composed of local dance professionals, its many initiatives have included visiting artist programs with elementary and high school arts educators, and creative and ...
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Metis Education 77% Metis Education - Education in historic Saskatchewan Métis communities focused on skills related to hunting, trapping, and trade economies. Parents negotiated school fees with residential school administrators, and some schools took Métis children as day students. The Gabriel Dumont Institute of Métis Studies and Applied Research, established in 1980, is the educational arm of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan and the only Métis-controlled educational ...
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Metis and Non-status Indian Legal Issues 77% Metis and Non-status Indian Legal Issues - Until the mid-1980s, Saskatchewan's Métis and Non-Status Indians did not possess Aboriginal status. In the 1980s, this alliance ended after the Constitution Act, 1982 (s.35.2) declared the Métis to be one of three distinct Aboriginal peoples, thus rekindling Métis nationalism, and also after thousands of Non-Status Indians regained their "Indian" status under Bill C-31 (1985). R. v. Morin and Daigneault (1996) granted ...
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Lafleche 77% Lafleche - Town, pop 446, located S of Gravelbourg at the junction of Hwys 13 and 58. Lafleche is named after Louis-François Richer Laflèche (1818–98), a Roman Catholic missionary to Rupert’s Land from 1844 to 1856, and the bishop of Trois-Rivières, Quebec from 1867 to 1898. Radegonde Roman Catholic Church was built in Lafleche; its exterior was faced with brick from the Claybank Brick Plant , and today it is both a heritage property and the oldest existing ...
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Irrigation 77% Irrigation - Irrigation is the age-old agricultural practice of supplying water to land through artificial means. The first irrigation schemes in Saskatchewan pre-date the Northwest Irrigation Act, which was passed in 1894 by the Dominion government to regulate use of water for irrigation. These regions have reliable sources of quality water (e.g., the South Saskatchewan River , Frenchman River , Swift Current Creek) that make irrigation development feasible. ...
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Hockey 77% While both junior and senior hockey thrived, the 1920s were most notable for the short life of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), a major-league professional organization of equal calibre to the National Hockey League and whose champions competed for the Stanley Cup against the NHL's best teams. Junior hockey, at its elite level, shifted from a provincial to a regional concern in 1966 with the creation of the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League (later the Western Canada Hockey League ...
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Frenchman River 77% Frenchman River - (49°00’ 107°18’; Map sheet 72 G/3). The Frenchman River rises in Cypress Lake and is fed by streams flowing off the southern flank of the Cypress Hills . Christiansen and Sauer (1988) have shown that the valley originated as glacial meltwater channel, draining water from an ice-lobe that flowed around the southern edge of the Cypress Hills. The Frenchman River is known locally as the Whitemud River, after the white clays common to the area. ...
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Catholic Health Care 77% Catholic Health Care - In Saskatchewan, Catholic health care began when communities of religious women arrived in the region (North-West Territories). Between 1907 and 1952, religious congregations established hospitals in many communities which otherwise would have been without such services, namely St. Paul's, Saskatoon*; Grey Nuns', Regina; Holy Family, Prince Albert; Notre Dame, North Battleford; St. Elizabeth's, Humboldt*; Providence, Moose Jaw; Gabriel, Ponteix; St. Joseph's, Macklin; ...
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Aboriginal Theatre 77% Aboriginal Theatre - Andrea Menard's The Velvet Devil speaks to the involvement of Aboriginal peoples in the performing arts since the 1930s. In 1980 the Native Survival School in Saskatoon (currently known as Joe Duquette High School) formed the Saskatoon Native Theatre Company, which produced community theatre utilizing renowned artists Maria Campbell, Tantoo Cardinal and Floyd Favel. The Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company is the first Aboriginal theatre in Canada to have a 110-seat ...
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