Level 30 Practical & Applied Arts

One of the "home children" who comes over from England commits a brutal crime of passion in a small Saskatchewan hamlet in 1910. (Content caution)

Saskatchewan's first female MLA is elected to replace her late husband in the legislature and ends up doing nothing to promote the women's movement.

The Federal Government executes eight Indians in Canada's largest mass hanging in order to teach Indian people a lesson.

People in Saskatchewan do not know what to do with the salt cod that the Maritimes sent as relief supplies during the Depression.

The population of Melville grows from 4,000 to 60,000 in one day during the 1939 Royal Tour.

Doukhobours march nude through Yorkton when the federal government refuses to honour immigration pledges.

A child-murderer terrorizes Saskatoon in the summer of 1975. David Threinen is eventually caught and remains in jail today. (Content caution)

A Glidden-area couple is charged with murder after the Depression drives them to a botched suicide attempt that ends in the death of their son. (Content caution)

A Quebec teenager flees to southwestern Saskatchewan in 1907 to live the cowboy life and change his identity to become Will James, the famous artist-writer cowboy.

A TransCanada passenger plane collides with a training jet over Moose Jaw in 1954 and rains death down on the city.

NWMP Inspector Dickens, the alcoholic son of the British novelist Charles Dickens, wisely surrenders Fort Pitt during the 1885 North-West Rebellion, but is vilified for his perceived cowardice.

E.A. Partridge sells farmers on his utopian vision of how farming and grain-handling should work.

The Dakota-Sioux Chief is the only Indian leader to be acquitted during the 1885 North-West Rebellion because he had a white witness and friend.

Saskatchewan doctors go on strike in 1961 to protest the introduction of Medicare.

Investors lose a bundle when a proposed industrial mega-park collapses during Saskatoon's real estate bust in 1912.