Saskatchewan Top Things To See
The provincial capital of Regina, named after Queen Victoria, is the home of Canada's world-famous Mounties, with the country's only training academy for Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the RCMP Heritage Centre(www.rcmpheritagecentre.com).
Wascana Centre
Regina's centrepiece, the Wascana Centre (www.wascana.sk.ca), is a huge urban park containing the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the Conexus Arts Centre, and providing an impressive setting for the Legislative Building, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum and the Kramer IMAX Theatre at the Saskatchewan Science Centre.
Prohibition rum-runners
The quiet town of Moose Jaw achieved notoriety in the 1920s for hosting gangsters, including Al ‘Scarface' Capone, and playing a pivotal role in the distilling, bootlegging and rum-running business. Follow the story on a tour of the Tunnels of Moose Jaw.
Temple Gardens
Stressed-out urbanities take the waters in the hot indoor and outdoor mineral pools at Moose Jaw's Temple Gardens Mineral Spa and Resort (www.templegardens.sk.ca), drawn from porous rock formations more than 1,350m (4,500ft) below ground.
Scenic drive
The Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) cuts through the cavernous Qu'Appelle Valley, a sunken garden studded with lakes that runs across much of the province.
Lovely lakes
Fort Qu'Appelle overlooks two shimmering and serene lakeside provincial parks, Katepwa Point and Echo Valley. Further east, Good Spirit Lake Provincial Park is also very pretty.
High point
Surprisingly, Saskatchewan is home to the highest point of land between Labrador and the Rocky Mountains, where you can look upon the forested oasis of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park.
Ukrainian heritage
Ukrainian settlers played a prominent role in Saskatchewan. Following the Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16), running eastwards from Saskatoon to Yorkton, near the border with Manitoba, is a good way to tour the grain belt and see the area's many silver-domed Orthodox churches, such as that at Veregin.
Prince Albert National Park
This park (www.pc.gc.ca) is a hilly, forested area with hundreds of lakes, ponds and rivers. Wildlife includes bison, white pelicans (Lavallée Lake), lynx, timber wolf, elk, moose and black bear. Waskesiu Lake has accommodation and camping.
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