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.

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.

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

An elderly couple get lost in a snowstorm during the worst blizzard in Saskatchewan history.

The Richardson rink of Regina wins the national and international championships in the early 1960s and change the game of curling in the process.

Anglican Bishop Lloyd, the saviour of the Barr colonists, fights against the immigration of continental Europeans in the late 1920s.

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.