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unusual facts about Allan, Saskatchewan


Willie Brossart

William James Brossart (born May 29, 1949 in Allan, Saskatchewan) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs and Washington Capitals


1984 CFL Draft

28. Saskatchewan Roughriders Ed McQuarters G Dakota N.W.

2013 FIA World Endurance Championship season

The season was marred by the death of Allan Simonsen in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Alameda Dam

It provides flood protection and irrigation for this area of Saskatchewan, along with protection for Minot, North Dakota.

Alice Beck Kehoe

She has studied Native American spiritual healers ("medicine people") and worked with Piakwutch, "an elderly deeply respected Cree man who served his Saskatchewan Cree community..." <2000:60>.

Allan Blair

Allan Walker Blair (1900 – 1947) was a professor at the University of Alabama's medical school who is best known for allowing himself to be bitten by a black widow spider in order to investigate the toxicity of its venom in humans.

Allanridge

Allanridge established as a settlement in 1947 and was named after Allan Roberts whose borehole's proximity to the gold bearing reef was the precursor to the mining in the area.

Arthur Procter

Arthur Thomas Procter (1886–1964), lawyer, judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Bobby Schmautz

Robert James Schmautz (born March 28, 1945 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward.

Bunny hug

The term 'bunny hug' is also used in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan to refer to hooded sweatshirts or 'hoodies'.

Christopher Glynn

He has subsequently performed as a piano accompanist with singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Claire Booth, Allan Clayton, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Daneman, Bernarda Fink, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Yvonne Kenny, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Bryn Terfel, Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams and Catherine Wyn Rogers.

CKCK

CKCK-FM, a radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to serve Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Darren Tanke

The Cenomanian (early Late Cretaceous) marine bird Pasquiaornis tankei (Tokaryk, Cumbaa and Storer, 1997) from Carrot River, Saskatchewan, Canada was named in Tanke's honor.

Dele Sosimi

Afrobeat is given a virtuoso treatment by a core combination of Femi Elias (bass), Kunle Olofinjana (drums), Phil Dawson (rhythm guitar), Maurizio Ravalico (percussion), Justin Thurgur (trombone), Tom Allan (trumpet) and Eric Rohner (tenor saxophone).

Duncan Allan

Along with Seren Waters, Allan is expected to be part of the team that pulls Kenya from their prolonged slump following the brilliant 2003 Cricket World Cup campaign.

Eric Berntson

Berntson also appeared on the 1991 tape that showed current Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski making homophobic slurs and current Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall mocking Roy Romanow in a Ukrainian accent which was revealed to the public on March 31, 2008.

Father of medicare

Emmett Matthew Hall was a jurist and chair of the 1964 Royal Commission on health care in Canada which recommended the nationwide adoption of Saskatchewan's system of public insurance for both hospitalization and out-of-hospital medical services.

Fort Saskatchewan

Other newspapers commonly read in the Fort Saskatchewan area are the Edmonton Journal and the Edmonton Sun.

George Leith

George Gordon Leith (1923–1996), a politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

George Norman

George Wesley Norman (died 1970), printer and political figure in Saskatchewan

Gerry Pinder

Allan Gerald "Mouse" Pinder (born September 15, 1948 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 353 games in the World Hockey Association and 223 games in the National Hockey League.

Harvey's

The Home Depot partnership for Saskatchewan ended in 2006, leading to the closure of all restaurants in that province except for the University of Saskatchewan location.

Henry Engelhardt

Henry Allan Engelhardt (born 17 January 1958) is the founder and chief executive of Admiral Group, a British motor insurance company.

Heron Lake, Minnesota

Inkpaduta, a Mdewakanton Sioux Indian leader in the area from the 1850s until his departure to join Sitting Bull's band in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, camped at at the south end of the lake that gives the town its name both before and after his participation in the Spirit Lake massacre of 1857, and the Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux uprising.

Ice People

Ice People brings Anne Aghion and her crew to Antarctica where they spent four months following the lives of North Dakota State University geologist professors Allan Ashworth and Adam Lewis, as well as the McMurdo Station staff over four months.

Kaboul Kitchen

Gilbert Melki was selected to play the mercenary Jacky as he had evenly divided his career between comedy and drama films, a quality creator Allan Mauduit found desirable.

Karla Jessen Williamson

Williamson was married to Dr. Robert Gordon Williamson (1931-2012, Oxley, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England), an anthropologist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan.

Last Mountain

Last Mountain-Touchwood, a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

Loughead F-1

Formerly with the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company in 1916, the Loughead brothers (Allan and Malcolm) started the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California to build the F-1 flying boat for their aerial sightseeing business.

Mike Botha

Mike Botha is a master diamond cutter, with close to four decades in the profession, his training and subsequent career began in South Africa and has led him to Mauritius, Russia and Canada – from Vancouver to the Northwest Territories to Saskatchewan.

Nick de Angelis

The art critic Sidney Gilbert, in a review in the October issue of Artspeak, wrote, “Allan Stone mounts a sensational group show...

Norcanair

Saskatchewan's 1964 general election saw the NDP government defeated by the Liberals.

Oral Fuentes

He moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1992 where he has performed at the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival and many other festivals and cultural shows.

Plautdietsch language

For example, Homer Groening, the father of Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons), spoke Plautdietsch as a child in Saskatchewan in the 1920s, but his son Matt never learned the language.

Rick Moffat

Born October 8, 1960 in Lachine, Quebec, he was one of five children born to James Moffat, a decorated World War 2 hero with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Belgian and French Resistance whose wartime memoir was published in "Behind Enemy Lines", and to Anne Dosman Moffat, a Prairie survivor of the Depression and the Dustbowl of Saskatchewan in the 1930s.

Ron Attwell

Ronald Allan Attwell (born February 9, 1935 in Humber Summit, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 22 games in the National Hockey League.

Ronald Flemons

He was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders on March 5, 2008, along with Glenn January, Toronto's first round selection in the 2008 CFL Draft and Toronto's second round selection in the 2010 CFL Draft in exchange for Kerry Joseph and Saskatchewan's third round pick in the 2010 Canadian Draft.

Ryan Bater

On June 25, 2009, Bater announced his intention to seek the leadership of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party, after the resignation of David Karwacki.

Sarah Fuller

She was born in Weston, Massachusetts to Harvey and Celynda (Fiske) Fuller, and was educated at Allan English and Classical School, located in West Newton.

Saskatchewan Transportation Company

The Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC) is a Crown Corporation of the Government of Saskatchewan, created in 1946 by an Order in Council.

Scott Gustafson

His goal with Eddie: The Lost Youth of Edgar Allan Poe was to introduce young readers to the work of Edgar Allan Poe in hopes they would explore his writings.

Selkirk locomotive

When diesels began operation between Calgary and Revelstoke in the early 1950s, the Selkirks were re-assigned to work the Brooks, Alberta and Maple Creek, Saskatchewan subdivisions between Calgary and Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

St. John River expedition

Dyer, West, and Allan returned to Machias by way of the Oromocto and Magaguadavic rivers.

The Pheasant Aircraft Company

Red Cherry Airlines started the first private airline in Saskatchewan with a Pheasant H-10 in 1928, using the aircraft for barnstorming charging passengers by weight for flights.

Tony Staley

Anthony Allan (Tony) Staley, AO (born 15 May 1939, educated at Scotch College, Melbourne) is an Australian politician, member of parliament and businessman.

U.S. Route 191

Its northern terminus at the international border is called Port Morgan, and the road continues into Saskatchewan as Highway 4 toward Swift Current.

Vincent Smith

Vincent Reynolds Smith (1890–1960), a judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Web of the Spider

The film is narrated by a troubled Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski).

Westby, Montana

Westby is located on the state border with North Dakota, and near the international boundary with Saskatchewan.

Yorkton Film Festival

In the era of the Red Scare, the arrival of two Soviet diplomats in small town Saskatchewan caused a bit of a stir.


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