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TWENTY-SEVEN PICTURES ADDED TO ROADS LESS TRAVELLED

Mike — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:11:17 +0000

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.

NWMP TRAIL PICTURES ADDED TO RHCA FLICKR SITE

Mike — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:03:10 +0000

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.

WOLSELEY HISTORIC HOMES TOUR SET FOR JULY 18, 2009

Mike — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:58:10 +0000

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.

ROADS LESS TRAVELLED ADDS HERSCHEL IN THE SPRING

Mike — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:05:29 +0000

Selection from Herschel in the Spring

The spring 2009 edition of Prairies North magazine arrived this week – a sure a sign that spring is on its way as any. To help put everyone in the right mood for spring, a set of new pictures has been added to the RHCA’s Roads Less Travelled Gallery. The new set, “Herschel in the Spring,” features pictures taken in the spring of 2008 around the small community of Herschel, north west of Rosetown and off highway 31. The set was contributed by a local photographer, Linda Klassen, who has lived the area her entire life.

Herschel is well known for its beautiful country-side, unique natural history and significant archaeological finds. The Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre in Herschel showcases all these unique elements of the area and offers a full-range of interpretive and educational resources as well as great summer programming.

MONUMENTS & MUSEUMS ADDED TO ROADS LESS TRAVELLED

Mike — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:05:34 +0000

This sculpture located at Fort Walsh National Historic Site is one of over 40 pictures in the new Monuments Collection

Two new categories featuring over 50 pictures have been added to the Roads Less Travelled Gallery. The Monuments Collection features pictures of over 40 statues, sculptures, historic markers, memorials and other monuments from all over Saskatchewan. The Museums Collection includes 14 pictures of Museums and Exhibits from community museums throughout the province.

ROADS LESS TRAVELLED EXPANDED

Mike — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:44:45 +0000

St. Paul's Lutheran Church near Leask, one of 100s of new pictures now available through Roads Less Travelled

The RHCA picture gallery “Roads Less Travelled” has been expanded by being linked to RHCA’s Flickr Site. Now each picture on the gallery is a link to a collection of pictures related to the image. This increases the number of pictures that can viewed on the gallery from only about 25 to well over 150 and the number of images available will continue to expand as new pictures get added to Flickr. Since going on-line just over eight months ago, “Roads Less Travelled” has been one of the most popular features on the RHCA website, attracting nearly 2000 visitors, and now with even more pictures its popularity should grow exponentially!

RHCA NOW POSTING PICTURES ON FLICKR

Mike — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:19:19 +0000

Flickr is a website that specializes in user-posted pictures in much the same way that Youtube specializes in user-posted videos. The RHCA has opened an account with Flickr and posted over 200 pictures. This includes sets of pictures from Tommy Douglas Vs Ross Thatcher: The Debate of the Century; James Gardiner Vs the Ku Klux Klan: The Struggle for a Multicultural Future; Dief is the Chief . . . Again! and the Old Wives Lake Festival. The RHCA account also features collections of pictures under the titles Monuments, Murals and Museums, which features pictures of statues, monuments, local museum exhibits, historic markers and small-town museums from all over Saskatchewan. Other sets of pictures highlight historic buildings and the beautiful scenery in the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park, St. Victor’s Petroglyths Provincial Park and the Sky Trail Bridge over the South Saskatchewan River near Outlook. These pictures will be linked to the RHCA website to allow visitors easy access to this great collection of photographs.