There are numerous

heritage Heritage may refer to: History and society * A heritage asset is a preexisting thing of value today ** Cultural heritage is created by humans ** Natural heritage is not * Heritage language Biology * Heredity, biological inheritance of physical c ...

s and cultural attractions in the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...

. Museums, dinosaur digs, aboriginal cultural and heritage sites,

art galleries An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...

, professional sport venues, spas, handcraft, antique and tea shops, agricultural tours, theatre and

archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

sites comprise over 600 varied Saskatchewan institutions. There are two

national park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...

s located in the

of Saskatchewan: Grasslands National Park,

Prince Albert National Park Prince Albert National Park encompasses in central Saskatchewan, Canada and is located north of Saskatoon. Though declared a national park March 24, 1927, official opening ceremonies weren't performed by Prime Minister William Lyon Macke ...

. There are also four National Historic Sites operated by Parks Canada in Saskatchewan including Fort Walsh National Historic Site,

Batoche National Historic Site Batoche, Saskatchewan, which lies between Prince Albert and Saskatoon, was the site of the historic Battle of Batoche during the North-West Rebellion of 1885. The battle resulted in the defeat of Louis Riel and his Métis forces by Major Ge ...

Fort Battleford National Historic Site Fort Battleford was the sixth North-West Mounted Police fort to be established in the North-West Territories of Canada, and played a central role in the events of the North-West Rebellion of 1885. It was here Chief Poundmaker was arrested, ...

and Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site. There are 37

provincial park Ischigualasto Provincial Park A provincial park (or territorial park) is a park administered by one of the provinces of a country, as opposed to a national park. They are similar to state parks in other countries. They are typically open to the ...

s, provincial recreation areas, natural areas and a Heritage rangeland are also protected on a provincial level.

also has two major cities, Regina and

Saskatoon Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Hig ...

. Regina is home to the

Royal Canadian Mounted Police The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal police, federal and national police service of ...

(RCMP) Academy at Depot Division where visitors can view the

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's Parade held weekdays and the seasonal Sunset Retreat Ceremonies. Regina is also home to 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 ...

which opened in 2007.

Cities

Saskatoon

's largest city, with a population of 260,600 in the census metropolitan area. It is located on the Trans-Canada's Yellowhead Highway #16 and is centrally located within the province. According to estimated figures by Tourism Saskatchewan, tourism in Saskatoon is worth over $500 million. This accounts for close to one-third of the $1.6 billion in travel expenditures throughout Saskatchewan.

Regina

Regina is

's second largest city, with a population of 236,481 in the census metropolitan area. It is also the capital of Saskatchewan. Regina is the hub for business and tourism in southern Saskatchewan. Regina has a rich culture in music, theatre and dance, supported by the

University of Regina The University of Regina is a public university, public research university located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Founded in 1911 as a private denominational high school of the Methodist Church of Canada, it began an association with the Unive ...

Museums

*See the article

List of museums in Saskatchewan This list of museums in Saskatchewan contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, sci ...

for a complete list of museums. *The

Addison Sod House Addison Sod House is a Saskatchewan homestead site made of grass or sod which is over a hundred years old and has been designated as a National Historic Site of Canada. History of site This sod home was used by James Addison and his family north ...

is a Saskatchewan

homestead Homestead may refer to: *Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses * Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres *Homestead principle, a legal concept t ...

site over a hundred years old made of grass or sod has been designated as a

National Historic Site of Canada National Historic Sites of Canada (french: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being ...

. This sod home was used by early homesteader James Addison and his family 10 miles north of

Kindersley Kindersley is a town surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290 in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located along Highway 7, a primary highway linking Calgary, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. At a population of 4,59 ...

and 6.5 miles east on Highway 21. His property held a barn, two sheds, shelterbelt as well as a dugout. *The

Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre is a community-based museum and interpretive centre, founded in 1994, that educates, conserves, protects, and promotes the history, the peoples and the assets of the land forming the Eagle Creek Valley and Coal ...

is an indoor/outdoor interpretive center, displaying,

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First Nation Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

History, Palaeontology, and Prairie Grassland Ecological history of the Coal Ravine and the Eagle Creek area, near the town of Herschel 37 km northwest of Rosetown. *The Bateman Historical Museum * Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum **The Diefenbaker House is the childhood home of

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John Diefenbaker John George Diefenbaker ( ; September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1930 and 1979 to lead the party to an electi ...

-turned-museum located in the city of Prince Albert. The museum building was built in 1912 and purchased in 1947 by the

and his then wife

Edna Diefenbaker Edna May Diefenbaker (''née'' Brower; November 30, 1899 – February 7, 1951) was the first wife of the 13th Prime Minister of Canada, John Diefenbaker.Geoffrey Stevens, "The Chief's unknown and vivacious first love". ''The Globe and Mail'', Sept ...

. It was closed in 2001 and moved to the Sukanen Ship and Pioneer Museum in 2004. *The

Mendel Art Gallery The Mendel Art Gallery was a major creative cultural centre in City Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Operating from 1964 to 2015, it housed a permanent collection of more than 7,500 works of art. The gallery was managed by the city-owned Saskatoon G ...

was a major creative cultural centre in

City Park An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a municipal park (North America) or a public park, public open space, or municipal gardens ( UK), is a park in cities and other incorporated places that offer recreation and green space to resi ...

, opened in 1964. Housing a permanent collection of works of local, regional and national significance, including works by the

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, the Mendel is also known for its public programs for all ages. It closed in 2015 and will be replaced by the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan, currently under construction. *The Outlook & District Heritage Museum is located in downtown Outlook. The museum is located in the former CP Rail Station and houses over 3000 items that highlight the lives of the pioneers and the community that was built on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River. *The

Saskatchewan Western Development Museum The Western Development Museum is a network of four museums in Saskatchewan, Canada preserving and recording the social and economic development of the province. The museum has branches in Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Saskatoon and Yorkton. Respe ...

is a network of four

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

s in

, Canada preserving and recording the social and economic development of the

. The museum has branches in

Moose Jaw Moose Jaw is the fourth largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. Lying on the Moose Jaw River in the south-central part of the province, it is situated on the Trans-Canada Highway, west of Regina. Residents of Moose Jaw are known as Moose Javians ...

North Battleford North Battleford is a city in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is the seventh largest city in the province and is directly across the North Saskatchewan River from the Town of Battleford. Together, the two communities are known as "The Batt ...

and

Yorkton Yorkton is a city located in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is about 450 kilometres north-west of Winnipeg and 300 kilometres south-east of Saskatoon and is the sixth largest city in the province. As of 2017 the census population of the ...

. Each branch focuses on a different theme:

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ation,

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

economy An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...

, and

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, respectively. *

T.rex Discovery Centre The T.rex Discovery Centre is a natural history museum located in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, and housed in a building designed by Stantec. The T.rex Discovery Centre was opened to the public in 2001, and was intended house a number of fossils, ...

National and provincial parks

* See

List of protected areas of Saskatchewan This is a list of protected areas of Saskatchewan. National parks Provincial parks The federal government transferred control of natural resources to the western provinces in 1930 with the Natural Resources Acts. At that time, ...

for the complete list of national, provincial and regional parks in Saskatchewan. *The

Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park The Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park was created to protect the Athabasca sand dunes, a unique boreal shield ecosystem located in the far-north Northern Saskatchewan Administration District. The Athabasca sand dunes are the most norther ...

is a unique geophysical land feature in the

Boreal Shield The Boreal Shield Ecozone, as defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), is the largest ecozone in Canada. Covering 1.8 million square kilometres it covers almost 20% of Canada's landmass, stretching from northern Saskatchew ...

ecosystems of the province of Saskatchewan.CPAWS SK – Athabasca Sand Dunes
It's 400 to 1,500 meter long dunes are the most northerly in the world. *The

Buffalo Pound Provincial Park Buffalo Pound Provincial Park is a provincial park located in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, about north-east of downtown Moose Jaw and north-west of the city of Regina. The park centres on Buffalo Pound Lake, a prairie lake formed from gl ...

is a Saskatchewan Provincial Park located in southern Saskatchewan about 25 km northeast of the city of

. *The Cannington Manor Provincial Park is a historic park which was established in 1882 by Captain Edward Michell Pierce (d. June 20, 1888) as an

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English colony. Pierce's death, drought, and the placement of a CP railway 10 kilometers away instead of through the town, all contributed to the demise of the colony. *The Grasslands National Park is one of

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's newer

s and is located in southern Saskatchewan along the

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...

border. Part of the

national park system The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propertie ...

, the park aims to protect representative areas of the country's 39 natural regions.

Regional Parks

*The Carlton Trail Regional Park is a family recreation and activity center and features a nine-hole golf course, a stocked fishing lake, a public beach, camping facilities with 75 electrical sites as well as food services, a picnic area, playground, ball diamonds and hiking trails. *The

Victoria Park Victoria Park may refer to: Places Australia * Victoria Park Nature Reserve, a protected area in Northern Rivers region, New South Wales * Victoria Park, Adelaide, a park and racecourse * Victoria Park, Brisbane, a public park and former golf ...

was designed by Canada's first resident landscape architect,

Frederick Todd Frederick Gage Todd (March 11, 1876 – February 15, 1948) was the first resident landscape architect in Canada. For the majority of his life he was one of a small group committed to the art and practice of structuring urban growth in the first ...

. It hosts the Regina Folk Festival in the summer. *The

Palliser Regional Park The Rural Municipality of Maple Bush No. 224 ( 2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 7 and Division No. 2. It is located in the southwest portion of the provinc ...

is located near the town of Riverhurst next to

Lake Diefenbaker Lake Diefenbaker is a reservoir and bifurcation lake in Southern Saskatchewan, Canada. It was formed by the construction of Gardiner Dam and the Qu'Appelle River Dam across the South Saskatchewan and Qu'Appelle Rivers respectively. Construc ...

. There are over 300 full service, electrical and water, and no service camping lots as well as cabin development. The park has public washrooms and showers. There is a full service marina and nine-hole golf course and a heated pool that offers swimming lessons in July and August. The park is also home to the

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, a restaurant and hotel. There are many sandy beaches and the park also has many playgrounds. It also has a concession and mini golf course.

Railway

*The

Saskatchewan Railway Museum The Saskatchewan Railway Museum is a railway museum located west of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at the intersection of the Pike Lake Highway (Hwy 60) and the Canadian National Railway tracks (on "Hawker" siding). It is operated by the Saskatchewan R ...

located in

, operated by the Saskatchewan Railroad Historical Society.

Significant events in Saskatchewan tourism

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'', a television show set in the make-believe town of

Dog River, Saskatchewan ''Corner Gas'' is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009. Re-runs still air on CTV, CTV2, CTV Comedy Channel, Much, MTV, E! and are streaming on Crave and Amazon Prime. The seri ...

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