THE RURAL HISTORY & CULTURE ASSOCIATION
OF SASKATCHEWAN

A story about the Celebrate the NWMP Trail festivals organized this summer by the Rural History and Culture Association is featured in the October-November 2009  issue of The Beaver: Canada’s National History Magazine.  This is the second article highlighting RHCA programs in The Beaver this year. The RHCA was also mentioned in a column by Christopher Moore in the April-May edition.  The Beaver has also included a story about the NWMP Trail events on their website, which includes a slide show featuring a number of photographs from the festivals.

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.