This is a thread to discuss Saskatchewan's history. Saskatchewan has been through boom and busts, right now it now it is undercredited(in my mind) for the history and historic buildings that are in our province.
So, if you want to post some of your city, town, or a ghost towns history, pr historic photos have fun and discuss it because its a big province out there
here are some old Saskatatoon photo's from an airplane at September 5th 1941. Photos from saskatoon Archvies.
here is a old map from 1882
and here is a drawing to promote people to go to saskatoon bac in the day
Looking north on 1st Ave from near 20th Street. Overhead foot bridge on left and Canada Building under construction on right. 1912
Postcard showing view down the Short Hill (Victoria Street): the Traffic Bridge, river and downtown. Possibly taken at official opening of the bridge, October 10, 1907
City of Medicine Hat disaster - postcard sent from Mrs. J.R. Whetter to her sister in Delisle, August 15, 1910. The Medicine Hat fouled her rudder and was destroyed against the piers of the Traffic Bridge on June 7, 1908.
The Empire Hotel at 2nd Avenue South and 20th St. East, ca. 1911.
The Warehouse District, 24th Street and Pacific Avenue, looking east. The Rumely Building is under construction.
The first railway bridge in Saskatoon was built in 1889-1890 where the Senator Sid Buckwold freeway bridge is now. It was destroyed by ice in 1904. This photo shows the new bridge on its temporary piers being washed out the following year. Spring breakup was a much-awaited and often calamitous event until the building of the Gardiner Dam upstream in the 1960s permanently altered the river's flow.
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