Country Guides
Saskatchewan
Top Things To See
Top Things To See
Saskatchewan
• Visit provincial capital Regina, named after Queen Victoria, which 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 (website: www.rcmpheritagecentre.com).
• See Regina's centrepiece, the Wascana Centre (website: www.wascana.sk.ca), a huge urban park containing the McKenzie Art Gallery and Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts, and providing an impressive setting for the Legislative Building, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum and the Kramer/IMAX Theatre.
• Relive the days of Prohibition at Moose Jaw, a quiet trading post that 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.
• Take the waters in the hot indoor and outdoor mineral pools at Moose Jaw's Temple Gardens Mineral Spa and Resort (website: www.templegardens.sk.ca), drawn from porous rock formations more than 1,350m (4,500ft) below ground.
• Follow the Highway through the cavernous Qu'Appelle Valley, a sunken garden studded with lakes that runs across much of the province.
• At Fort Qu'Appelle, gaze out at the shimmering and serene lakeside recreation parks, Katepwa Point and Echo Valley. The Good Spirit Lake Provincial Parks are also very pretty.
• Venture upon the highest point of land between Labrador and the Rocky Mountains and look upon the afforested oasis of Cypress Hills Park.
• Find the Ukrainian settlers' influence upon Saskatchewan: following the Yellowhead Highway, 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.
• Explore Prince Albert National Park (website: www.pc.gc.ca), 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, camping.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
• Visit provincial capital Regina, named after Queen Victoria, which 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 (website: www.rcmpheritagecentre.com).
• See Regina's centrepiece, the Wascana Centre (website: www.wascana.sk.ca), a huge urban park containing the McKenzie Art Gallery and Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts, and providing an impressive setting for the Legislative Building, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum and the Kramer/IMAX Theatre.
• Relive the days of Prohibition at Moose Jaw, a quiet trading post that 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.
• Take the waters in the hot indoor and outdoor mineral pools at Moose Jaw's Temple Gardens Mineral Spa and Resort (website: www.templegardens.sk.ca), drawn from porous rock formations more than 1,350m (4,500ft) below ground.
• Follow the Highway through the cavernous Qu'Appelle Valley, a sunken garden studded with lakes that runs across much of the province.
• At Fort Qu'Appelle, gaze out at the shimmering and serene lakeside recreation parks, Katepwa Point and Echo Valley. The Good Spirit Lake Provincial Parks are also very pretty.
• Venture upon the highest point of land between Labrador and the Rocky Mountains and look upon the afforested oasis of Cypress Hills Park.
• Find the Ukrainian settlers' influence upon Saskatchewan: following the Yellowhead Highway, 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.
• Explore Prince Albert National Park (website: www.pc.gc.ca), 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, camping.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
• See Regina's centrepiece, the Wascana Centre (website: www.wascana.sk.ca), a huge urban park containing the McKenzie Art Gallery and Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts, and providing an impressive setting for the Legislative Building, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum and the Kramer/IMAX Theatre.
• Relive the days of Prohibition at Moose Jaw, a quiet trading post that 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.
• Take the waters in the hot indoor and outdoor mineral pools at Moose Jaw's Temple Gardens Mineral Spa and Resort (website: www.templegardens.sk.ca), drawn from porous rock formations more than 1,350m (4,500ft) below ground.
• Follow the Highway through the cavernous Qu'Appelle Valley, a sunken garden studded with lakes that runs across much of the province.
• At Fort Qu'Appelle, gaze out at the shimmering and serene lakeside recreation parks, Katepwa Point and Echo Valley. The Good Spirit Lake Provincial Parks are also very pretty.
• Venture upon the highest point of land between Labrador and the Rocky Mountains and look upon the afforested oasis of Cypress Hills Park.
• Find the Ukrainian settlers' influence upon Saskatchewan: following the Yellowhead Highway, 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.
• Explore Prince Albert National Park (website: www.pc.gc.ca), 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, camping.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
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