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The Best Attractions In Shaunavon

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Grand Coteau Heritage & Cultural Centre

Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park

Grotto Gardens

Fort Walsh National Historic Site

Jones Peak

T. Rex Discovery Centre

Living Sky Casino

The town of Shaunavon is in southwest Saskatchewan at the junction of Highways 37 and 13. It is 110 kilometres from Swift Current, 163 kilometres from the Alberta border and 74 kilometres from the Montana border. Shaunavon was established in 1913 along the Canadian Pacific Railway line. The town has several nicknames including Bone Creek Basin, Boomtown, and Oasis of the Prairies. The latter name is derived from the park located in the centre of town. The Shaunavon Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin is named for the town.
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The Best Attractions In Shaunavon

1. Grand Coteau Heritage & Cultural Centre Shaunavon
2. Living Sky Casino Swift Current
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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5. Grotto Gardens Maple Creek
6. Jones Peak Eastend
7. 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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Gravelbourg - Saskatchewan, Canada

The Town of Gravelbourg is a small, vibrant, and multicultural community located in south central Saskatchewan, Canada.

Gravelbourg has a rich history in Roman Catholicism, and was the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gravelbourg, until 1998.

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Fly Fishing in Saskatchewan's Southwest

Julio Salazar is an avid fly fisherman. He was generous enough to teach me the ropes of fly fishing in the beautiful Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park.

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Beautiful Gull Lake

From a great museum to a wonderful theatre, Gull Lake has something for everyone. Stop on by to this community on the Trans Canada

Regina, Saskatchewan May 2012 Time Traveler's Guide

Regina Saskatchewan. This is the Time Traveler's Guide for the month of May, 2012. Video features massive Annotation. Each day is 'clickable' and will take you to the other side. There is a Return button at the destination days to take you back to the Main Video. (of course you can always hit the browser's back button.

To accomodate browsers that can't do youtube annotation function, Video includes a sample of each day in the middle part.

Interesting days to visit:

May 2 - Cherry Blossoms - Gene Emerson
May 3 - Moonlit Waltz - Gene Emerson
May 4 - Can you stop the rain.. - Wilbert's Collection
May 7 - Tchaikovsky - Pletnev Marsh from the Nutcracker Suite - Sofiya Uryvayeva
May 10 - Velablue, Manqing - Cancerlegon's channel
May 11 - Sailor's Lullaby - Gene Emerson
May 14 - Glorious Morning - Gene Emerson
May 16 - Flight of the Bumblebee - Senri and Chihirock
May 17 - Untitled Composition - Gene Emerson
May 20 - Sailor's Lullaby - Gene Emerson
May 24 - Ulan - Wilbert's Collection of Hard to find music
May 25 - The Great Gate of Kiev - Sofiya Uryvayeva

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