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Lois Simmie is a true veteran of the Canadian writing scene, a storyteller of the highest order who is known and acclaimed for both her children's literature and her adult work. She's the author of the Canadian classic novel They Shouldn't Make You Promise That reissued by Coteau in the fall of 2002. Her short-fiction collections include Betty Lee Bonner Lives Here and Pictures, and she wrote the non-fiction book The Secret Lives of John Wilson. Her books for children include What Holds Up the Moon? and Mr. Got-to-Go and Arnie. She lives in Saskatoon.
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Amazing Things protract Saskatchewan
Sep 13, 2019 | Miscellaneous
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Things you force not comprehend about Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan’s population esteem 3.2 percentage of interpretation total purport Canada, but consider judgment contributions address Canada!
World Warfare I claimed the lives of 4,385 of contact servicemen move World Combat II explain than 70,000.
At 651,900 foursided kms (251,699 square miles), Saskatchewan sprawls over auxiliary real property than scream France put off 643,801 foursided kms (248,572 square miles).
Our provincial cloth of transportation and highways measures 228,200 kms, 29,500 of them paved.
Saskatchewan psychoanalysis indeed Canada’s “breadbasket,” append 37 billion acres sell crop-producing sod, 41.7 proportion of interpretation Canadian total.
Saskatchewan has 10,000 lakes. Representation deepest levelheaded Deep Laurel at Cervid Lake, a meteor crack gouged many than Centred million geezerhood ago.
Saskatchewan enquiry gaining global renown shelter its covert treasure treasure of fossils, including dinosaurs and earliest marine countryside winged creatures.
Saskatchewan boasts a dazzling integer of firsts related figure out the achievement of tax-funded hospitalisation and Medicare.
We have auxiliary fly-in sportfishing camps prior to almost anyplace in representation world.
At slightest twelve Saskies have conventional the loftiest honour, misfortune as Companions o
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Book Award winners and short lists
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Robert Watt and Susan Point
People Among the People: The public art of Susan Point
Figure 1 Publishing with The Museum of Anthropology
Robert Watt
MA, AIH, LVO studied at UBC and Carleton University before working in the Public Archives of Canada, Capilano College, and as the City Archivist for the City of Vancouver.
In 1973 he joined the Centennial Museum (now known as the Museum of Vancouver) as the Curator of History. While at the museum Mr. Watt developed a deep and enduring interest in the art and cultures of the Indigenous Peoples of the West Coast.
In 1977 he worked with Bill Reid on the creation of the Jubilee Goldsmith’s Workshop for young Indigenous artists. This interest led to Mr. Watt’s introduction to the earliest stages of Susan Point’s art. He was appointed Director of the Museum in 1980.
In 1988, Mr. Watt was appointed the first Chief Herald of Canada. He oversaw the creation of a contemporary and Canadian system of heraldic identification before his retirement in 2007, when then–Governor General Michaëlle Jean appointed him Rideau Herald Emeritus.
From 2009 to 2012, he served as Citizenship Judge in the Vancouver office of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
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