SASKATCHEWAN 



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SASKATCHEWAN REBELLION 



Other Items of Interest. The name Sas- 

 katchewan is a Cree Indian word meaning 

 "rapid river." It thus belonged to the river 

 before it did to the district or province. 



The highest altitude in the province is 

 reached in the Cypress Hills, where a peak 

 rises to a height of 4,790 feet. 



One of the terrors of the Saskatchewan 

 farmer is the occasional hailstorm which leaves 

 his growing crops beaten into the ground. To 

 meet this possible loss, which amounts in some 

 seasons to $2,000,000, a hail tax is levied and 

 the farmers are insured against hail. 



There are in the province over 11,000 In- 

 dians, mostly Crees. All the Indians live on 

 government reservations, and these reserva- 

 tions are for the most part self-supporting. 

 Many of the Indians are excellent farmers, 

 trained for their work in the industrial schools 

 of the province. 



Saskatchewan has about 8,700 Dukhobors, 

 members of a curious religious sect from Russia 

 whose doctrines somewhat resemble those of 

 the Quakers. 



The valley of the Saskatchewan was one of 

 the chief centers of the activities of the fur 

 traders, and over the open plains south of the 

 river great herds of buffalo roamed. E.H.O. 



Consult Boam and Brown's The Prairie Prov- 

 inces of Canada; Black's History of Saskatche- 

 wan. 



Related Subjects. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in Saskatchewan will find material of value 

 in the following articles in these volumes : 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Arcola 



Assiniboia 



Battleford 



Canora 



Estevan 



Humboldt 



Indian Head 



Maple Creek 



Mel fort 



Melville 



Moose Jaw 



Moosomin 



North Battleford 



Prince Albert 



Regina 



Rosthern 



Saskatoon 



Shaunavon 



Swift Current 



Weyburn 



Wolseley 



Yorkton 



HISTORY 



Hudson's Bay Company Rlel, Louis 

 Red River Rebellion Saskatchewan Rebellion 



Butter 



Dairying 



Lumber 



PRODUCTS AND INDUSTRIES 



Oats 

 Wheat 



WATERS 



Assiniboine River 

 Athabaska, subhead 

 Athabaska Lake 



Churchill River 

 Saskatchewan River 



SASKATCHEWAN, UNIVERSITY OF, an insti- 

 tution founded in 1907 at Saskatoon, by act of 



the provincial legislature. The university cam- 

 pus, containing 1,333 acres, lies along the Sas- 

 katchewan River. The institution is organized 

 into colleges of arts, science and agriculture. 

 Special emphasis is placed on the work in the 

 college of agriculture, especially the short 

 courses, and this department cooperates closely 

 with the Saskatchewan department of agricul- 

 ture in the direction of institute meetings and 

 home-making clubs. In 1912, when the uni- 

 versity held its first commencement, there was 

 a student enrolment of 160. There are now 

 about 450 students and forty instructors, and 

 the library contains 20,000 volumes. 



SASKATCHEWAN REBELLION, sas katch' 

 e wahn re bcl'yun, a rising of the half-breeds in 

 Canada in 1885 under the leadership of Louis 

 Riel. Shortly after the collapse of the Red 

 River Rebellion (which see) the Canadian gov- 

 ernment granted 

 to each of the 

 metis or half- 

 breeds 240 acres 

 of land. For a 

 time this gener- 

 osity seemed to 

 have solved a dif- 

 ficult problem, 

 but as Manitoba 

 began to fill with 

 settlers many 

 moved westward 

 and settled on 

 the banks of the 

 Saskatche- 

 wan River. 

 There they were 

 again disturbed 

 by the advance 

 of t"he settle- 

 ments, and par- 

 ticularly by the KIEL REBELLION MEDAL 

 { North West Canada medal 

 construction ol &ran ted to all who served in 

 the Canadian Pa- tne rebellion. The word Sas- 



cific Railway, the medals of those who were 

 TU T ^- *A present at the actions of Fish 



The Indians and Creek( Batoche and French- 

 half - breeds re- man's Butte. The reverse side 

 contains the head of Queen 

 Sented, first, the Victoria and the words, Vic- 



threatened extinc- toria regina et * m P eratrix - 

 tion of the buffalo herds, on which they de- 

 pended for food. They also feared that their 

 lands, to which they had no patents or titles, 

 would be taken from them, and they were dis- 

 satisfied with the government's method of sur- 

 veying, which eliminated the old French sys- 

 tem of having all farms front on the river. 



