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unusual facts about Conquest, Saskatchewan


Monique Mercure

In 1999, she won another Genie award for her role as Grace Gallagher, an elderly resident in Conquest set in Conquest, Saskatchewan.


1578 in poetry

Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana, an epic poem about the conquest of Chile; the first part originally appeared in 1569, the second part was published for the first time this year (together with the first part), the third part was published with the first and second parts in 1589; Spain

1984 CFL Draft

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

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>.

Andrés de la Tovilla

He, along with Diego de Mazariegos, founded the City of “Villareal de Chiapa de los Españoles”, now San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, in 1528 as a regional base for the conquest of Guatemala.

Antiochus of Palestine

In 619, five years after the conquest of the Holy Land by Chosroes, Ancyra was taken and destroyed by the Persians, which compelled the monks of the neighbouring monastery of Attaline to leave their home, and to move from place to place.

Arthur Procter

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

Ashraf Hotaki

Ashraf Khan's death marked the end of Hotaki rule in Persia, but the country of Afghanistan was still under Shah Hussain Hotaki's control until Nader Shah's 1738 conquest of Kandahar where the young Ahmad Shah Durrani was held prisoner.

Battle of Gibeah

A Levite came to Jebus (Jerusalem, which was a non-Israelite city until its conquest by King David), but rejects a suggestion from his servant to spend the night there, and heads for Gibeah with his concubine.

Bobby Schmautz

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

Canada–France relations

While the gradual conquest of New France by the British, culminating in Wolfe's victory at the Plains of Abraham in 1759, deprived France of her North American empire, the 'French of Canada' - Québécois or habitants, Acadians, Métis, and others - remained.

Chowdur

Two years later, in 1221, the Mongol conquest pushed the Turko-Iranian Oghuz tribes including the Choudur from the Syr Dara region into the Kara Kum area and along the Caspian Sea.

CKCK

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

Conquest of Stockholm

The conquest of Stockholm 1523 is depicted in the Swedish opera Gustaf Wasa from 1786 by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, where the libretto was written by Johan Henric Kellgren and Gustav III of Sweden.

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.

Don Julian

Julian, Count of Ceuta (7th-century–8th-century), North African ruler who had a role in the Umayyad conquest of Hispania

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.

Eustace II, Count of Boulogne

Eustace has been portrayed on screen by Leslie Bradley in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) and by Joby Blanshard in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest (1966), part of the series Theatre 625.

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.

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.

Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford

In 1282, war with Wales broke out again; this time it would not be simply a punitive campaign, but a full-scale war of conquest.

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.

Kunduz Province

Between one hundred and two-hundred thousand Tajiks and Uzbeks fled the conquest of their homeland by Russian Red Army and settled in northern Afghanistan.

Menz

Negasi Krestos, a leading warlord of Menz, extended his power to the south by conquest, proclaimed himself ruler of Shewa, and defeated all of his rivals.

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.

Neuf-Marché

Bernard de Neufmarché, Norman lord active in the conquest of Wales 1088-1095.

Nikopol, Ukraine

Later it was renamed into Slovianske and then Nikopol, meaning the city of Nika or Victory (1781) due to the conquest of the Zaporizhia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sultan Shah of Khwarezm

He succeeded in overthrowing several local rulers, resulting in the conquest of Sarakhs, Tus and Merv by 1181.

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.

Todd Bolender

Describing him in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, she writes: “he was a henpecked husband who constantly escaped into daydreams of sexual conquest. Clad in a vest and long underwear and chewing on a huge cigar, he was the prototype of ... J. Walter Mitty.” Longtime New York City Ballet observer Robert Garis said of him in Agon, “his easy wit and charm in the first pas de trois seem unrecapturable” (ibid.)

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

Warburton, Greater Manchester

Although the Domesday Book records no church in Warburton, it is possible that the church dedicated to Saint Werburgh is pre-Conquest.

Westby, Montana

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

Wulfnoth Godwinson

On screen, Wulfnoth was portrayed by actor Michael Pennington in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest (1966), part of the series Theatre 625.

Yermak Timofeyevich

In 1996, directors Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valeri Uskov produced the film Yermak, a historical drama about the conquest of Siberia which starred Viktor Stepanov, Irina Alfyorova, and Nikita Dzhigurda.

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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