Saskatchewan

remote camps spread around the country, an estimated 1,000 men left Vancouver (by a freight train) in early June 1935 and headed across the prairies. After the trek had left Calgary, “the trekkers” picked up more recruits and when they reached Saskatchewan they were numbering an estimated 2,000 men. On June 17th when local governments refused to help the strikers they began to be disheartened by their lack of progress, so strike leaders decided to move the protest to Ottawa. 1000 strikers took…

pencil or marker. Fletcher made her work remarkably appealing by using burnishing around the edges of her work and blending throughout. In this piece she did not use any hues she only used pure achromatic colouring. Karen Fletcher was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, 1952. Currently lives in Waterloo, Ontario. I unexpectedly…

the clock care. Tracy soon developed scoliosis which is the abnormal arch of one's back and had dislocated her hip. A surgery was scheduled on November 19th, 1993. One month before the surgery Latimer took Tracy to his pickup truck in Wilkie, Saskatchewan and inserted a hose in the exhaust pipe. Tracy soon died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning on October 24th, 1993. Doctors were aware of Tracy’s lack of nutrients and weight loss and proposed the idea of a feeding tube in her stomach. Latimer…

North America. They are mixed-race descendants of First Nation women and French or British men. The Metis people believed they were being treated unfairly and they fled west and began to settle across the prairies. They settled in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Manitoba Act of 1870: The Manitoba act is an act that created the province of Manitoba. The act stated that Metis lands would be protected but all other lands were the property of the Dominion of Canada. Scrip: A scrip, either land or money…

cities. In the early 1900’s, immigrants moved to larger cities, such as Toronto and Montreal, looking for job opportunities. In order to fulfill these work demands, the government created the Autonomy Bill as well as 2 new provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, increasing the urban population (Hundey and Magarrey 23-24). Additionally, immigrants were called upon to contribute to Canada’s economy, which maintained the growing…

Buffy Sainte-Marie is a multitalented recording artist who was born in Saskatchewan, 1941. Sainte-Marie is “a pioneer and influential singer-songwriter of love songs, and music with a political and social activist focus.” She is famous for her songs about peace and love, the anti-war single “Universal Soldier,” and her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Although her evolving sound created her mainstream success, Buffy Sainte-Marie made a name for herself in…

Montreal is a city that has special meeting space that various peoples among different cultures, religious backgrounds, ethnicities and languages can encounter. Specifically, Montreal is a perfect historical city that illustrates Mary Louis Pratt’s concept of a contact zone. The contact zone is where social spaces (i.e. cities) is in contact with two or more cultures that could clash and interact with each other through ideas, identity, class, culture and politics. The historical context can be…

Around 6,000 people emigrated there, settling on land given to them by the government in what is now Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The leader of the Doukhobors, Peter V. Verigin, was able to have the land registered in the name community. By 1906 the government started requiring land being registered in the name of individual owners, which most of the Doukhobors refused to…

are entitled to their reasoning. My heart breaks for both families affected, but somehow shatters just a little more for Ellen and Paul’s struggle’s to survive, their failing marriage and the loss of their only child. Solloum’s parents came to Saskatchewan with the “Knowledge of survival in harsh surroundings bequeathed to them by their ancestors. This, (they) were not affected to the same extent as the others”. Therefore helping them to survive much better than…

not particularly accurate. The increase in the use of technology has lessened the need for workers causing the job opportunities to decrease more and more. However, coal production is responsible for about 700,000 jobs in the United States. In Saskatchewan, Canada there is a power plant called the Boundary Dam. The Boundary Dam is a $1.1 billion dollar project and 1 of 14 CSS (carbon capture and storage) projects attached to a power plant. The power plant managed to capture about 400,000…