Away in beautiful sunshine again. We see lots of double tracker trailers – a tracker pulling a 53’ trailer and a second 53’one attached to that. Huge. We’re passing wheat fields, some cattle and rolled hay. They even cut hay on the road allowance right up to the highway. We crossed into Saskatchewan by 9:40 and went by the small town of Moosomin, where my maternal grandmother was born and still has it's grain elevator. Named after a prominent Indian chief, it became an important trading center outfitting the pioneers, when the C.P.Railway arrived in 1882. Today it’s a mixed farming community with potash and oil industries expanding. We gained an hour at 12:30 and are driving through he beautiful Qu’Appelle Valley with history and culture dating back to the 1700’s. The Hudson’s Bay Company established a post in 1864, the North West Police in 1885, in time to head north to deal with the Riel Rebellion. 130 years ago, 32 First Nations Bands signed Treaties with Her Majesty the Queen and hold annual celebrations on these traditional lands today. We arrived at Wal-Mart in Moose Jaw by 2:30.
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