Presented by Six Local Partners in cooperation with the Rural History and Culture Association, the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society and Burning Sun Productions. Major financial support provided by the Building Pride Program of the Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport with additional support provided by the Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation and SaskEnergy.
Coming Spring 2010!
From Benchmark Publishing, A Long Trail A Winding: Wood Mountain to Fort Walsh. As the legacy aspect of the Celebrate the NWMP Trailfestivals held in the summer of 2009, this book will include the following articles:
“There’s A Long, Long Trail A-Winding,” a never before published article by Everett Baker about the marking of the NWMP Trail
“The North-West Mounted Police Trail: Wood Mountain to Fort Walsh” by Garrett Wilson
“Spirits of the Trail,” by Ken Mitchell
“Wood Mountain – The Trail,” by Thelma Poirier
“James Walsh of the North-West Mounted Police,” by Brian Porter
“Telling the Stories of the NWMP Trail,” by Mike Fedyk
“The Legacies of Everett Baker” by Wendy Thienes
“The People of McCord and Mankota and the Trail,” by Audrey J. Wilson
Plus the book will include an eight-page colour section featuring never-before published photographs taken by Everett Baker documenting the marking of the NWMP Trail in the 1950s and 60s.
More information will be available soon!!