English Language Arts

Berthold Imhoff, a German painter, makes an international name for himself by decorating hundreds of Saskatchewan churches. He dies penniless.

The Fehrs become the poster family for the Depression when their car breaks down in Edmonton on their way home in 1934.

University of Saskatchewan President covers up the death of a student from alcohol poisoning by blaming the 1919 flu epidemic.

Estevan-area coal miners fight for better working conditions and run head-long into the trigger-happy RCMP.

One of many Gentleman Farmers to settle in Saskatchewan; he amasses the largest private collection of silver in Canada.

A Saskatoon woman unknowingly becomes the favourite pin-up girl of Canadian troops fighting in Italy during World War II.

A Moose Jaw restaurant owner is fined for breaking a law that prohibited Chinese from hiring white women. He fights it all the way to the Supreme Courts.

An epidemic of bullets ordered by the Prime Minister kills off most of the elk in Prince Albert National Park in 1959.

Édouard Beaupré of Willow Bunch is exploited in life and death because of his extraordinary size.

A farmer in land-locked Outlook, Saskatchewan builds a ship and plans to sail home to Finland.

An RCMP undercover agent disguised as a Regina house painter infiltrates the local Communist Party of Canada until his cover is blown.

Almighty Voice slaughters a government cow to feed his family in 1895 and becomes one of Canada's most wanted outlaws when he kills a Mountie during his escape.

Prince Albert is forced into bankruptcy because of an ill-conceived plan to build a massive dam on a nearby river.

Oklahoma Blacks migrate to Saskatchewan in 1910 only to face the same racism they had been trying to escape.

Visiting pilots to Moose Jaw's British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and local youths riot in 1944 over the attention of local girls.