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6 unusual facts about Moose Jaw


Deb Higgins

She is currently mayor-elect of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, having been elected as the city's first female mayor in the Saskatchewan municipal elections, 2012.

Dempster Heming

He was also working for the Canadian Pacific Railway at the same time and sold his farm in 1912 to become a full-time employee of the railway at Moose Jaw.

Girl Guides of Canada

Other Guide Companies were registered later in 1910 in Toronto, Moose Jaw and Winnipeg.

Kurt Dahle

Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Dahle first became known in Canadian music circles as a member of the band Age of Electric, along with his brother Ryan Dahle and another set of brothers, Todd Kerns and John Kerns.

Robin Hood Flour

Eventually the company became International Multifoods Corp The Moose Jaw mill eventually closed in 1966 due to over capacity; the mill was torn down but the grain bins and elevator are still in use as an inland terminal.

Trial of Louis Riel

The jurors were Francis Cosgrave - foreman - Whitewood, Edwin J. Brooks of Indian Head, Henry J. Painter of Broadview, Walter Merryfield of Whitewood, Peel Deane of Broadview and Edwin Eratt of Moose Jaw.


Bill Gottselig

In the 1988 federal election, he campaigned in the riding which became Moose Jaw—Lake Centre, but lost to Rod Laporte of the New Democratic Party.

Eskbank, Saskatchewan

The hamlet is located about 15 km south of Highway 42 on Range road 20, approximately 50 km north-west of the City of Moose Jaw on the former Canadian Pacific Railway Tracks from Moose Jaw to Riverhurst.

Free Methodist Church in Canada

In 1940, Aldersgate College was founded in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, another result of the vision generated at the All Canada Conference.

Lake Valley, Saskatchewan

The hamlet is located about 10 km south of Highway 42 on Range road 11, approximately 40 km north-west of the City of Moose Jaw on the former Canadian Pacific Railway Tracks from Moose Jaw to Riverhurst.

Vickie Panos

A native of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada to Greek-Canadian parents, Panos is one of three descendants of Greek migrants to play in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, being the others Annastasia Batikis and Kay Lionikas.


see also

CHAB

CHAB-TV, a defunct television station in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

Ray Boughen

He is also a former charter member of the Wakamow Rotary Club and a current member of the Moose Jaw Rotary Club, and was an interim president and CEO of the Regina Airport Authority.

Saskatchewan Highway 1

A site in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, an internationally acclaimed shorebird conservation strategy, is at the village of Chaplin approximately equal distance between Swift Current and Moose Jaw.