Social Studies

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.

Saskatoon's Ethel Catherwood wins gold at the 1928 Olympics and then turns her back on her sport and her country.

Saskatchewan's first premier, Walter Scott, suffers from manic-depression and spends more time out of the country seeking a cure than he does running the province.

Prime Minister Mackenzie King promises to create a national park in exchange for a safe seat in the 1926 election.