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Big River

Big River - derives from the Cree for "big or wide river",mistahi-sîpiy. [click images to enlarge]


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Some of the W. C. Murray (president of the University of Saskatchewan, 1907-1937) family and friends at the "summer camp". [15]
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Down the street in Big River in June 1952, parishioners gather at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church for Services. [16]

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