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  • 3. Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park Maple Creek
    Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park is an interprovincial park straddling the southern Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary, located southeast of Medicine Hat. It is Canada's first and only interprovincial park. The park consists of two protected areas, the 345 km2 west block, that straddles the Alberta/Saskatchewan boundary between Alberta Highway 41, the townsite of Elkwater, Saskatchewan Highway 615, Saskatchewan Highway 271 and Fort Walsh, and the centre block, an additional area of 58 km2 in Saskatchewan, west of Saskatchewan Highway 21.
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  • 4. Fort Walsh National Historic Site Maple Creek
    Fort Walsh is a National Historic Site of Canada that was a North-West Mounted Police fort and the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre. Administered by Parks Canada, it forms a constituent part of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. The fort was built in June 1875, and was named for its builder, inspector James Morrow Walsh. The fort was intended to curb the illegal whiskey trade, protect Canada's nearby border with the United States, and aid with native policy. These factors had been brought to public attention following the Cypress Hills Massacre of 1873, and resulted in Sir John A. Macdonald's establishment of the North-West Mounted Police. Fort Walsh served as the NWMP headquarters from 1878 to 1882. In 1883 the fort was closed and dismantled.The site of the fort was designated a Nation...
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  • 6. T. Rex Discovery Centre Eastend
    The T.rex Discovery Centre is a museum located in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, that was built to contain the fossil remains of the Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Scotty which was found nearby. It also showcases many other fossil specimens that can be found in Saskatchewan and the surrounding area. The centre is operated by the Royal Saskatchewan Museum , of Regina, Saskatchewan, and was officially opened on May 30, 2003. The building contains the RSM Fossil Research Station.Scotty the T. rex was found in August 1991 by local high school principal Robert Gebhardt. Gebhardt had joined palaeontologists Tim Tokaryk and John Storer from the RSM on a prospecting expedition alongside the Frenchman River Valley. Gebhardt stumbled across a tail vertebra of the T.rex on a cattle trail he was walking ...
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  • 7. Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park Stewart Valley
    Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park is a provincial park in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located in the valley of the South Saskatchewan River and the west end of Lake Diefenbaker, about 50 km north of Swift Current, Saskatchewan. The park is 5,735 hectares in size.The park is centered around the South Saskatchewan River, which forms the west end of Lake Diefenbaker. In the valley, there are coulees leading up the prairies. Popular activities include hiking, swimming, and fishing.
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