On April 6, 2018, the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team was involved in a serious bus crash. The bus was carrying the team to a playoff game in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, when it collided with a tractor trailer loaded with peat moss at an intersection known as Armley Corner, near Nipawin.Sixteen of the 30 people on board the bus died — the driver, the general …

Warman is the ninth largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada.It is approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the city of Saskatoon, and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northeast of the city of Martensville.According to the 2016 census, Warman is the fastest growing municipality in the country, growing 55% between 2011 and 2016. Warman is a bedroom community of Saskatoon.

Maple Creek is a town in the Cypress Hills of southwest Saskatchewan, Canada.It is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Maple Creek No. 111.The population was 2,084 at the 2016 Census. The town is 103 km (64 mi) southeast of Medicine Hat, Alberta, and 40 km (25 mi) north of the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park on Highway 21 and 8 km (5.0 mi) south of the Trans Canada …

Tisdale is the business centre for the rich agricultural boreal forest area in central Saskatchewan, Canada.This town is in the Rural Municipality of Tisdale No. 427, Saskatchewan.. Located at the junction of Highway 35 and Highway 3, and serviced by both the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, Tisdale is the grain handling centre of the region with five inland …

Oxbow is a town in the southeast of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.It is located on the Canadian Pacific Railway and on Provincial Highway 18.It is approximately 58 kilometers west of Saskatchewan's border with Manitoba and approximately 26 kilometres (16 mi) north of the Canada–US border with North Dakota.. The town's official motto is "Progress with Pride", but …

Lafleche is a small town in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada in the Rural Municipality of Wood River No. 74.The community is located at the intersection of Highway 13 and Highway 58.It is 20 km south of Gravelbourg and 45 km west of Assiniboia.It is situated on the south bank of Lafleche Creek, which is a tributary of Wood River. Thomson Lake Regional Park is located 10 minutes …

The Battleford area was the site of numerous independent and Hudson's Bay Company fur trading houses dating from the 1770s. William Holmes operated a post for the North West Company just above the confluence of the Battle and Saskatchewan rivers in 1784. At least three posts were in use between 1868 and 1914. The town was founded in 1875 as a fur trading post …

List of First Nations Reserves in Saskatchewan, Canada. See also: list of rural municipalities in Saskatchewan, Canada See also: List of communities in Saskatchewan, Canada See also: List of Indian reserves in Canada There are over 70 Indian reserves in all of Saskatchewan.

The North Saskatchewan River valley parks system, also known as the Ribbon of Green or the River Valley Parks, is a continuous collection of urban parks around the North Saskatchewan River valley in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada.The park system encompasses over 7,300 hectares (18,000 acres) of parkland, making it the largest contiguous …

Saskatchewan River Crossing is a locality in western Alberta, Canada.It is located within Banff National Park at the junction of Highway 93 (Icefields Parkway) and Highway 11 (David Thompson Highway). It is administered by Improvement District No. 9.. It was named "The Crossing", when travellers and fur traders used this spot to cross the North Saskatchewan River on their way to …

La Saskatchewan (prononcé : / s a s k a t ʃ ə w a n /, en anglais : / s ə ˈ s k æ t ʃ ə w ə n /) est une province du Canada.Située dans l'Ouest du pays, elle est au milieu des trois provinces des Prairies.Elle est bordée à l'ouest par l'Alberta, au nord par les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, à l'est par le Manitoba, au nord-est par le Nunavut et au sud par les états américains du ...

In the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, a city is a type of incorporated urban municipality that is created from a town by the minister of municipal affairs. The city form of governmental organization is created by a ministerial order via section 39 of The Cities Act if the town has a population of 5,000 or more and if the change in status is requested by the town council.

Carlyle (2016 population 1,508) is a town in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Carlyle is the largest town servicing the far south-eastern corner of Saskatchewan and as a result, has become the economic and services centre of the region. Estevan and Weyburn are the closest cities and both are a little over 100 kilometres away.

History. 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, …