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Boomtowns, railway towns and cities are settlements whose economies depend on the local railway, but this definition only skims the surface of how life unfolds in and around these communities. Come and experience on the ground, with an archaeologist, the ...
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Come and meet some of our friendliest neighbours on the Arm River Hutterite Colony tour near Regina. This is an agricultural community like few others, as our Hutterian friends live in a communal setting which allows them to pool their resources and incre...
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Back Alley Safari for Students in the Great Plains: archaeology in Western Canada
Saskatchewan Towns and Cities
Social Studies teachers are often looking for activities they can do outdoors with their students. This is the perfect opportunity for them to learn about achaeology and the significance of the built environment in Great Plains towns and cities, along the...
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Regina's lanes and back alley buildings merge to create back alleys, an untapped resource of the urban tourism potential. Our city has the good fortune of possessing an elaborate network of back alleys. To most city dwellers, back alleys are for garbage...
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The influences of the Canadian Pacific Railway on downtown Regina extend far beyond the obvious exquisite architectural features of 1912 Union Station. By the time Union Station was built, two successive railway stations had previously channelled settler...
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Some think of Saskatchewan (Canada) as an unending plain of wheat fields interrupted by grain elevators. The Big Muddy is anything but - a rough landscape of rugged hills and craggy buttes 100 miles south of Regina, sparsely covered with sage, cactus and ...
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The saline flats of Chaplin Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve (Lake) constitute the second largest saline water body in Canada, spanning over 15,000 acres. More than 30 species of shorebirds such as the endangered piping plover either stop to rest......
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Saskatchewan's Buffalo Pound Provincial Park provides a rich window into the diversity of the Great Plains' ancient glacial environment. This excursion takes guests from wetland to rugged hills along the Qu'Appelle River valley....
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Claybank Brick Plant and the Missouri Coteau: the Making of a National Historic Site
Southern Saskatchewan
As we leave Regina, you will see the Dirt Hills in the distance. It is clearly visible as a section of hummocky moraine area made up of glacial debris that was formed either along a large ice-front or around masses of stagnant ice. From the top you stand ...
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The Qu’Appelle Valley takes a variety of forms at various locations as it steadfastly heads to meet the Assiniboine near the Manitoba border. One of the most spectacular segments along its course is that crooked valley channel northeast of Grenfell ...



