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Did You Know? grasslands in North America.
The park is an area of climatic
Grasslands National extremes, where sum mer
Park has Canada’s temperatures can be as high
only remaining as 104 °F (40 °C), and winter
black-tailed prairie North West Mounted Police ones as low as -40 °F (-40 °C).
dog colonies. post. The stockade has five This envi ronment supports a
original buildings housing a range of rare wildlife, including
museum, including the look- short-horned lizards and
out point in the commander’s ferruginous hawks. Visitors
17 residence, officers’ quarters, may hike and camp in the
park, but facilities are basic.
and restored bar racks.
North Battleford Costumed guides tell the story East of the park is the
and Battleford of when 500 settlers took striking, glacially formed
refuge in the stockade during landscape of the Big Muddy
@ n Jct Hwys 16 & 40;
www.battlefords.ca the North-West Rebellion. Badlands. In the early 1900s,
caves of eroded sandstone
These two communities, Allen Sapp Gallery and deep ravines provided
together known as The " = ⌂ 1 Railway Ave E hideouts for cattle thieves
Battlefords, face each other # Jun–Sep: 11am–5pm daily; such as Butch Cassidy.
across the North Saskatchewan Oct–May: noon–4pm Wed–Sun
River. Named after a ford in ∑ allensapp.com Big Muddy Badlands
the Battle River, the area was " ' ⌂ Off Hwy 34
the site of age-old conflicts Fort Battleford § (306) 267 3312
between the Blackfoot and National Historic Site
Cree. It was the seat of the " ⌂ Off Hwy 4 § (306) 937
North-West Territories govern- 2621 # Mid-May–Jun: 10am– 19
ment from 1876 to 1882. Today, 4pm Mon–Fri; Jul–Aug:
the communities are thriving 10am–4pm daily Duck Lake
industrial centers, although @ ∑ ducklake.ca
the North Battleford branch
of the Western Development 18 Just west of the farming village
Museum focuses on rural life. of Duck Lake lies a plaque
The Allen Sapp Gallery Grasslands commem orating the first
displays works by one of National Park shots fired in the North-West
Canada’s best-loved contem- ⌂ Jct Hwys 4 & 18 # Daily Rebellion. On March 26, 1885,
porary artists, who died in (some facilities are open in a police inter preter and a Cree
2015. Sapp’s delicately colored summer only) n Val Marie; emissary scuffled during a
paintings and drawings honor (306) 298 2257 parley, and the officer was
the traditions of the Nor thern killed. During the ensuing
Plains Cree community. Situated in the southwest battle, 12 NWMP officers and
Between the Saskatchewan corner of Saskatchewan, six Métis died. The Battle of
and Battle rivers is the Fort Grasslands National Park was Duck Lake is depicted in a
Battleford National Historic set up in 1988 to preserve one series of vivid murals at the
Site, containing a well-restored of the last original prairie town’s interpretive center.
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