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Saskatoon

Saskatoon - selected by John Lake as the administrative centre for the Temperance Colonization Company, the name is a shortened form of the Cree words for the site at which they frequently cut saskatoon berry willows for making arrow shafts, manimissâskwatân. [click images to enlarge]


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Municipal (Riversdale) swimming pool. [228]
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1903. [Dill Photo] [229]
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Barr Colonist encampment, 1903. [Dill Photo] [230]
   
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1907. [231]
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Kiwanis Park and the Vimy Memorial as seen from the Broadway Bridge, c. 1955. [232]
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Saskatoon bridges, 1960. [233]

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Mayor Sid Buckwold opens the new Kinsmen Arena, 1960. [234]
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The Children's Day parade in Saskatoon, 1950. [235]
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Aerial view of the University of Saskatchewan campus, 1928. [236]
   
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Aerial view of the University of Saskatchewan campus, 1989. [237]
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The Murray Memorial Library Building which initially housed the University Archives, 1960s. [238]
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Main Library which currently houses the University Archives, 1975. [239]

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