MILESTONES IN SASKATCHEWAN'S HISTORY
UP TO 1955,
AS PER HISTORY OF BIENFAIT BOOK
*= additions not in book
1690/91- First white man, Hudson's Bay Company explorer, Henry Kelsey,visits
the Saskatchewan River
http://www.pch.gc.ca/csp-pec/english/about/multimedia/explorers/kelsey.html
1750- French fur trader, LaVerendrye, builds Fort Paskoyac on the Saskatchewan
LaVerendrye
1754/55 - Anthony Henday,
http://wps.sd54.bc.ca/projects/explorer/AnHenday.html
Hudson's Bay Company explorer, traverses the whole Saskatchewan
and sees the Rockies
1776- Sturgeon Post, near site of Prince Albert, established by Montreal
fur Trader, Peter Pond
1778- North West Company post set up near present day- Battleford
*1792- First wheat grown in Saskatchewan was at Fort a la Corne.
1798- Hudson's Bay Company founded Fort Carlton
1821- North West Company absorbed into Hudson Bay Co
1857- Captain Palliser
http://www.palliser-genealogy.mcmail.com/explorer.htm
investigates the open prairies to report on their possibilities for settlement.
1866- Reverend R.W. James Nisbit founds Prince albert
http://www.CityLightsNews.com/pacty000.htm
1869/70- North West passes to the Dominion of Canada and is organized
as the Northwest Territories.
1874- North West Mounted Police ride from Manitoba
1876- Indian Treaty signed at Fort Carlton
1877- First North West Council meets
1882- CPR reaches Regina, (new N.W.T. Capital) and Moose Jaw founded
1883- Saskatoon Founded
http://www.city.saskatoon.sk.ca/
1885- North West Rebellion,
http://www.tcel.com/~brownb/Metisreb.htm
fighting
at Duck Lake, Fish Creek, Cut Knife, and Batoche
1888- Legislative Assembly established for the North West Territories
1897- Responsible government for the North West Territories, after
agitation led by Premier Haultain.
1901/02- In the great western boom Saskatchewan's population grows
at fastest of the prairie provinces, nearly 440% from 91,279 to 492,432
1905- September 1- Province of Saskatchewan Formed
1906- Aug 25, Saskatchewan Coat of Arms was granted by King Edward
VII
1911- Marquis Wheat
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0069.htm
introduced
(early maturing- later replaced by rust resistant varieties like Thatcher
and Saunders.
1912- Regina devastated by tornado, but quickly rebuilt
1914-18- First World War
1924- Saskatchewan Wheat Pool established
1930- Control of her natural resources transferred to Saskatchewan
1935- Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act to Conserve and develop water
and improve land use
1939- Second World War
*1944 Saskatchewan voters elect the first socialist
government
in North America, led by Tommy Douglas
1947- Provincial free hospital plan established
1949- Oil Development spreads in west-central Saskatchewan
1952- Saskatchewan wheat crop reaches 435 million bushels
1953- Uranium production begins at Uranium City
1966- Nov 28- First Grey Cup win for the
Saskatchewan
Roughriders Football team http://www.saskriders.com/
1969- Sept 22- Saskatchewan's present Flag was dedicated
* 1990, January 15 - VIA cuts half of its passenger network. Included in
these cuts are a decision to run just one transcontinental train
between Toronto and Vancouver via CN through Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton
and Jasper.
Links to Sask. History Sites
Note- Not my Web Pages
Links may or may not work
as I can not control them changing
http://www.looking4kin.com/group/saskatchewangenealogy
http://duke.usask.ca/~debrou/grade12.htm
http://www.blackfeetnation.com/timeline.htm
http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/saskatchewan.html
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/histgena.html
http://library.usask.ca/sni/stories/index.html
This Page is maintained by Doug Gent
It is intended to help my family and others
locate their family home town, or your ancestors home town.
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