Social Studies

Videos are listed chronologically by date added, beginning with the most recent

The Accidental MLA. Episode 38

Series: Looking Back
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 White Man Governs. Episode 37

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

The Missing Recipe. Episode 36

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

City for a Day. Episode 35

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

Naked We Stand. Episode 34

Series: Looking Back
Doukhobours march nude through Yorkton when the federal government refuses to honour immigration pledges.

Summer of Fear. Episode 33

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

The Price of Pride. Episode 32

Series: Looking Back
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)

Cowboy Imposter. Episode 31

Series: Looking Back
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.

Death Over Moose Jaw. Episode 30

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

Dickens of the Mounted. Episode 29

Series: Looking Back
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.

The Sage of Sintaluta. Episode 28

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

Chief Whitecap. Episode 27

Series: Looking Back
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.

The Birth of Medicare. Episode 26

Series: Looking Back
Saskatchewan doctors go on strike in 1961 to protest the introduction of Medicare.

Factoria. Episode 25

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

The Unionist Party. Episode 24

Series: Looking Back
Two Conservative MLAs from Saskatchewan start the province's first separatist party in 1980 giving the movement some fleeting credibility.

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