Looking Back

Anglican and Catholic missionaries rush to convert Aboriginal peoples in northern Saskatchewan to their particular brand of Christianity.

The famed Sioux Chief seeks refuge in Canada and is befriended by the Mountie assigned to watch over him.

This is an eyewitness account of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa trek and the Riot that ended it.

Every single soldier from Debden who left to fights in World War II returns safely after the parish priest makes a deal with God.

French aristocrats flock to Whitewood and try to recreate their extravagant lifestyles, but their farms and businesses fail miserably.

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.