The River Landing
N 52° 07.356 W 106° 40.008
13U E 385890 N 5775984
Quick Description: This location was an old collegiate and school board that once stood here. There is a kids little water park, dog fountain, a place to get food and drink, numerous plaques about the river and a statue of the founders nearby.
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Date Posted: 11/11/2009 12:11:17 AM
Waymark Code: WM7N0T
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Long Description:"Arise Saskatoon Queen of the North"
The statue, The Founders, you see in the roundabout commemorates
the meeting in 1882 of Dakota Chief Whitecap (Wapahaska) of Moose
Woods settlement and John Lake of the Temperance Colonization
Society. Early that Spring John Lake and an advance party had
traveled by rail to the end of the tracks at Moosomin. Traveling
overland, they visited the Dakota settlement at Moose Woods known
today as the Whitecap Dakota First Nation. Chief Whitecap
recommended to John Lake the location immediately across the river
as the best site to build a community. Proceeding on this advice,
Lake and his party chose that side because it offered low banks and
narrow channel for a future ferry crossing. Legend has it that it
was at this time that Lake raised a Saskatoon berry branch above
his head and declared, 'Arise Saskatoon, Queen of the North'.