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Highway 13 is a highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from the
Alberta
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border (continuing westward as
Alberta Highway 501
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 501, commonly referred to as Highway 501, is a highway in the province of Alberta, Canada. It runs west–east from Highway 5 east of Mountain View as gravel to Cardston, then pavement throug ...
) until it transitions into
Highway 2 at the
Manitoba
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border near
Antler
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. Highway 13 is about 676 km (420 mi.) long.
Highway 13 passes through
Shaunavon,
Assiniboia
Assiniboia District refers to two historical districts of Canada's Northwest Territories. The name is taken from the Assiniboine First Nation.
Historical usage
''For more information on the history of the provisional districts, see also Distric ...
,
Weyburn
Weyburn is the eleventh-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. The city has a population of 10,870. It is on the Souris River southeast of the provincial capital of Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina and is north from the North Dakota border in the ...
,
Redvers Redvers may refer to:
Places
* Redvers, Saskatchewan, a town in Canada
People
* Redvers (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Kelvin Redvers, First Nations filmmaker
* Redvers family
See also
* Redvers Airport, an abandoned air ...
and
Carlyle. It is also referred to as the
Red Coat Trail
The Red Coat Trail is a route that approximates the path taken in 1874 by the North-West Mounted Police in their March West from Fort Dufferin to Fort Whoop-Up.
Route description
A number of highways in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and A ...
, as much of its length follows the route of the original historic path. A majority of the route between
Wauchope and
Govenlock going through the
Palliser's Triangle
Palliser's Triangle, or the Palliser Triangle, is a semi-arid steppe occupying a substantial portion of the Western Canadian Prairie Provinces, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba, within the Great Plains region. While initially determined to be uns ...
is also referred to as the
Ghost Town Trail
The Ghost Town Trail is a rail trail in Western Pennsylvania that runs between Black Lick, Indiana County, and Ebensburg, Cambria County. Established in 1991 on the right-of-way of the former Ebensburg and Black Lick Railroad, the trail foll ...
.
Travel route
Travel east through the province of Saskatchewan on the Red Coat Trail is continuous on Highway 13 which is a secondary paved undivided highway until
Weyburn
Weyburn is the eleventh-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. The city has a population of 10,870. It is on the Souris River southeast of the provincial capital of Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina and is north from the North Dakota border in the ...
. Highway 13 crosses Lodge Creek and Middle Creek, then passes the junction with
Highway 21 south followed by
Highway 615 north. The highway volume beginning in Saskatchewan along the highway about 45 vehicles per day (vpd) on a class 4 gravel highway.
Highway 615 provides access north to
Fort Walsh National Historic Park and the
highest point of land in Saskatchewan.
Consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throug ...
is a small
village
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located in the
Rural Municipality
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These include:
* Rural municipality (Canada), Rural municipalities in Canada, a Lists of municipalities in Canada, type of municipa ...
of
Reno No. 51 in the extreme south-west of
Saskatchewan
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, along the highway. It is at the Consul intersection of highways that Highway 13 changes to a
thin membrane surface undivided highway where the traffic volume increases to about 80 vpd.
Vidora is located at a small jog in the road following the crossing of Battle Creek.
Travel continues north-east until the junction with Highway 21 which provides access to
Cypress Hills Provincial Park
Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park is a natural park in Canada straddling the Alberta / Saskatchewan boundary and jointly administered by the two provinces. Located south-east of Medicine Hat, it became Canada's first interprovincial park in ...
and
Maple Creek. The highway continues east after this intersection on a class 3
granular pavement highway and traffic here increases to an
annual average daily traffic
Annual average daily traffic, abbreviated AADT, is a measure used primarily in transportation planning, transportation engineering and retail location selection. Traditionally, it is the total volume of vehicle traffic of a highway or road for a y ...
(AADT) of 270 vpd.
At the junction of
Highway 18 south is the small hamlet of
Robsart, to the east of this intersection, the AADT declines to about 160 vpd.
There is a junction with Highway 18 before the highway turns north again to arrive at the intersection of
Highway 614 and the town of
Eastend
Eastend is a town in south-west part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, situated approximately north of the Montana border and east of the Alberta border.
The town is best known for the nearby discovery of a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' s ...
, which has the nickname Dino Country where a
Tyrannosauraus rex was discovered spawning the T Rex Discovery Centre.
[
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] A number of
ancient fauna palaeontological
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dig sites exist in southern Saskatchewan.
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This area of Highway 13 receives an increase of traffic wherein about 300 vpd travel Highway 13 east of Eastend and over 650 vpd east of town resulting in an upgrade to
asphalt concrete
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road construction
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There are many types of ...
.
Highway 13 travels past the intersection with
Sk Hwy 633 north before arriving at the access road to the
village
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of
Dollard. The town of
Shaunavon is located at the beginning of the
concurrency
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Law
* Concurrence, in jurisprudence, the need to prove both ''actus reus'' and ''mens rea''
* Concurring opinion (also called a "concurrence"), a ...
with
Sk Hwy 37 and the intersection of secondary highway
Sk Hwy 722.
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The traffic volume entering Shaunavon is about 600 vpd, and the AADT increases to over 1,000 vpd heading north on the Highway 37 and Highway 13 concurrency. Sk Hwy 37 provides access to the town of
Gull Lake and in , the highway turns east on a thin membrane surface class 2 highway bearing between 150 and 250 vpd.
Highway 631 is the next intersection providing access to the hamlet of
Scotsguard, and the next junction is with
Highway 629 north. There is a short concurrency with Sk Hwy 629, before it leaves the highway in a southerly direction providing access to the small hamlet of
Admiral
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. The village of
Cadillac
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is located at the intersection with
Highway 4. Highway 13 is upgraded to a class 5 granular pavement as traffic can reach a high of 530 vpd east of this intersection.
Continuing east along the highway is the intersection with
Highway 629 which provides access north to the town of
Ponteix
Ponteix (, ) is a town in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, 86 km (53 mi) southeast of Swift Current. It is located on Highway 628 just north of Highway 13.
History
In 1908, Father Albert-Marie Royer from the Auvergne region in Fr ...
. Both the Notukeu Regional Park and ''Mo'' are within town, where Mo is a statue of a 70- to 75-million-year-old
Plesiosaur
The Plesiosauria (; Greek: πλησίος, ''plesios'', meaning "near to" and ''sauros'', meaning "lizard") or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.
Plesiosaurs first appeared ...
(
Elasmosaurus
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) found near Ponteix. Besides palaeontological dig sites, there are also
archaeological
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sites where the pre-historic Napao and Niska Indian sites have been excavated between Cadillac and Ponteix. The Notukeu Heritage Museum Inc. preserves the history of both palaeontological and archaeological artifacts. The Notukeu Wildlife federation has preserved wildlife in the area of the Notukeu Creek and for this purpose has procured land along the Gouverneur Dam and restocks fish and runs a Pheasant farm to re-stock the
pheasant
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population.
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After leaving Ponteix, the next junction is with
Highway 612 and west of this intersection is the village of
Aneroid home to Indianola one room sod schoolhouse built in 1911.
Hazenmore is next along the route before the junction with
Highway 19 south and the beginning of the concurrency between Highway 13 and Highway 19. At the village of
Kincaid, Highway 19 continues north leaving the concurrency. The hamlet of
Meyronne
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See also
*Communes of the Lot department
The following is a list of the 313 communes of the Lot department of France
France (), officially ...
if at the junction with
Highway 611 south followed by the hamlet of
Woodrow. To the north-west is Thomson Lake which is a man-made lake used for recreational and reservoir purposes becoming the first
regional park A regional park is an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, recreational use or other reason, and under the administration of a form of local government.
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of Saskatchewan.
Lafleche at the junction with
Highway 58, and east of this junction the AADT increases to over 600 vpd.
The Louis Pierre Gravel National Historic Marker commemorates history at the north end of Highway 58, and the Cripple Creek Provincial Historic Marker is located at the junction with Highway 13.
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The terrain of the
Missouri Coteau
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features low hummocky, undulating, rolling hills, potholes, and grasslands. This physiographic region of Saskatchewan is the uplands Missouri Coteau, a part of the Great Plains Province or Alberta Plateau Region which extends across the south-east corner of the province of Saskatchewan. The village of
Limerick
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is located at the intersection with
Highway 358 followed by the junction of
Highway 2 and
Highway 717 which come together at the town of
Assinibioia.
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![Highway 13 smoky sunset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Highway_13_smoky_sunset.jpg)
Just to the west of Assiniboia the traffic volume increases to about 1,000 vpd and to the east of town, the volume decreases to about 800 vpd and the majority of the highway is class 3 granular pavement.
Verwood
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at the north end of the Willow Bunch Lake is located on the concurrency between the highway and
Highway 36. The intersection with
Highway 624 is followed by the intersection where
Highway south and
Highway 334 north meet the highway.
Ogema is located at the junction with
Highway 623 north.
Amulet
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and
Pangman are on either side of the intersection of
Highway 622.
Highway 6
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is crossed next followed by the hamlet of
Khedive
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. The junction with
Highway 28 south which is next followed by
Trossachs
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. The intersection with
Highway 621 north is passed before arriving at the
city
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of
Weyburn
Weyburn is the eleventh-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. The city has a population of 10,870. It is on the Souris River southeast of the provincial capital of Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina and is north from the North Dakota border in the ...
.
Highway 619 north is before the intersection of
Highway 606 where the hamlet of
Griffin
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is located. The hamlet of
Froude is next on the highway before the town of
Stoughton at the crossroads of
Highway 47 and
Highway 33.
Forget is along the highway, followed by a crossing over
Moose Mountain Creek
Moose Mountain Creek is a river in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Its River source, source is the Chapleau Lakes near Montmartre, Saskatchewan, Montmartre and it is a tributary of the Souris River, ...
, a tributary of the
Souris River
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then Kisbey on
Saskatchewan Highway 605, Highway 605 and
Arcola Arcola may refer to:
Places
; Australia
* Arcola, Grafton, a heritage-listed house in New South Wales
;Canada
* Arcola, Saskatchewan, a town in the Province of Saskatchewan
* Arcola Airport, an airport in the Province of Saskatchewan
;England
* ...
at the
Highway 604 intersection.
[
] The town of
Carlyle is at the intersection with
Highway 9, which provides access north to
Moose Mountain Provincial Park
Moose Mountain Provincial Park is a provincial park, located in south-eastern Saskatchewan 24 km north of the town of Carlyle on the Moose Mountain Upland. It is one of Saskatchewan's few parks with a community inside the park as there ...
and
Cannington Manor Provincial Historic Park. Before the
Manitoba
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border are
Manor on
Highway 603,
Antler River
The Antler River is located in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America's Great Plains in south-eastern Saskatchewan and south-western Manitoba in Canada in an area known as Palliser's Triangle. Its source is in Saskatchewan's Moose Mounta ...
,
Wauchope on
Highway 601,
Redvers Redvers may refer to:
Places
* Redvers, Saskatchewan, a town in Canada
People
* Redvers (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Kelvin Redvers, First Nations filmmaker
* Redvers family
See also
* Redvers Airport, an abandoned air ...
on
Highway 9,
Gainsborough Creek and finally
Antler
Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family. Antlers are a single structure composed of bone, cartilage, fibrous tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels. They are generally found only on male ...
on
Highway 600.
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Red Coat Trail
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy and
RCMP Heritage Centre
The RCMP Heritage Centre (french: Le Centre du patrimoine de la GRC) is a law enforcement museum located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The museum houses a number of exhibits on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and artifacts relating to ...
are both located in the capital city of
Regina. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy is a training facility for ''Red Coats'' or the ''Royal Canadian Mounted Police'' officers, while the
RCMP Heritage Centre
The RCMP Heritage Centre (french: Le Centre du patrimoine de la GRC) is a law enforcement museum located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The museum houses a number of exhibits on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and artifacts relating to ...
is a museum relates history and memorabilia of the
RCMP
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.
Fort Walsh
Fort Walsh is a National Historic Sites of Canada, National Historic Site of Canada that was a North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) fort and the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre. Administered by Parks Canada, it forms a constituent part of Cypress ...
was home to the
North-West Mounted Police
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in the 19th century. Located in south-western Saskatchewan, it oversaw activities in the Big Muddy Badlands north of the
Canada–United States border
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.
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull ( lkt, Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ; December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock I ...
,
James Walsh,
Big Bear
Big Bear, also known as ( cr, ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃᒪᐢᑿ; – 17 January 1888[Mistahimaskwa](_blank)
...
,
James Macleod
Lieutenant-Colonel James Farquharson Macleod (c. September 25, 1836 – September 5, 1894), born in Drynoch, Isle of Skye, Scotland, was a militia officer, lawyer, North-West Mounted Police officer, magistrate, judge, and politician in Alber ...
,
Sam Steele
Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele (5 January 1848 – 30 January 1919) was a distinguished Canadian soldier and police official. He was an officer of the North-West Mounted Police, most famously as head of the Yukon detachment during the ...
, Dutch Henry, Jones-Nelson gang,
Sam Kelly
Roger Michael Kelly (19 December 1943 – 14 June 2014), known by the stage name Sam Kelly, was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre. He is best known for his roles as Captain Hans Geering in '' 'Allo 'Allo ...
, Chief
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull ( lkt, Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ; December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock I ...
,
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse ( lkt, Tȟašúŋke Witkó, italic=no, , ; 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by wh ...
,
John A. Macdonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that sp ...
, and
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, b ...
are some names of historic legend in this area.
Major intersections
From west to east:
See also
*
Roads in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan, the middle of Canada's three prairie provinces, has an area of and population of 1,150,632 (according to 2016 estimates), mostly living in the southern half of the province.
Currently Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure opera ...
References
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