THE RURAL HISTORY & CULTURE ASSOCIATION
OF SASKATCHEWAN

Twenty-seven pictures have been added to the RHCA’s Roads Less Travelled Flickr Site. This includes photographs of Gabriel Dumont’s grave site, John Diefenbaker’s first law office and a wide assortment of historic buildings including churches, grain elevators, museums and murals.  The bulk of the pictures are from the central Saskatchewan between Batoche National Historic Site and Humboldt but pictures from Biggar and Waseca are also included.

Trail riders at NWMP Trail markers near Fort Walsh

Thirty-four pictures taken at the six Celebrate the NWMP Trail events held in south-west Saskatchewan between July 1 and August 2, 2009, have been added to the Rural History and Culture Association’s Flickr site and can be viewed there.  The pictures include every aspect of the six events including “Spirits of the Trail,” the dramatic re-telling of the story of the friendship between James Walsh of the North-West Mounted Police and Sioux Chieftain Sitting Bull. Other pictures feature First Nations performances and Saskatchewan singer/songwriters.

Pictures of the T-Rex Discovery Centre in Eastend and the Eastend Historical Museum have also been added to the Museum section of the RHCA Flickr site.

A video of the highlights of the Celebrate the NWMP Trail events is currently being produced and should be posted to Youtube sometime in September.

The Wolseley Heritage Foundation is sponsoring the Wolseley Historic Homes Tour 2009, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday July 18. Seven homes, which include the 1896 fieldstone home of Wolseley’s first mayor, will be featured, as well as the 1895 Territorial Courthouse, the only Territorial courthouse surviving in Saskatchewan.

 Tickets, at $15 each, are available at 306-698-2271, and may be picked up, along with the tour map and information on each building, at the Courthouse.

 The leisurely stroll through the town named as one of Harrowsmith magazine’s “Ten Prettiest Towns in Canada,” plus the adventure of crossing Fairy Lake on the swinging bridge, are free.