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98 unusual facts about Saskatchewan


8th Street East

It begins as a continuation of a minor residential street (8th Street West) at Highway 219 (Lorne Avenue) in Saskatoon, and runs through the city, eventually exiting the city limits, going through the eastern part of Corman Park Rural Municipality and continuing to Range Road 3033 in the Blucher Rural Municipality near Patience Lake.

Archie Forbes

Forbes was born in Delwood, Saskatchewan, Canada, the son of Alexander Menzies Forbes and Elizabeth Lilian Forbes (née Campbell).

Augustus Kenderdine

In 1908, the stories of the Barr Colonists and their Utopian settlement of Brittania, now known as Lloydminster, inspired Kenderdine to immigrate with his family to the Province of Saskatchewan in Canada, where he homesteaded near Lashburn.

Augustus Frederick Lafosse (Gus) Kenderdine (1870—1947) was a landscape and portrait artist of Lancashire and Saskatchewan, a farmer of Saskatchewan, and academic at the University of Saskatchewan.

In 1936 he established the Murray Point Art School at Emma Lake, which became the University Art Camp which was the forerunner of the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops which became the genesis of the Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus which was named in his honour.

Barry Dean

Barry James Dean (born February 26, 1955 in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan) is a retired former professional ice hockey player who was drafted second overall in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft by the Kansas City Scouts.

Battle of Fort Pitt

Rather, he had tried to unify the Cree into a political confederacy powerful enough to oppose the marginalization of native people in Canadian society and renegotiate unjust land treaties imposed on Saskatchewan natives in the 1860s.

Beverley Breuer

Beverly was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and is one of a set of triplets, which includes her, her sister, and her brother.

Bible translations into Cree

In the final decades of the 20th century the Canadian Bible Society, working in partnership with the Cree Nation, the Church and other partners – including the Summer Institute of Linguistics – began working on a new Cree Bible that would make the Word of God available to a little over 30,000 native speakers of the dialect, largely concentrated in Saskatchewan.

Brayden McNabb

He attended Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a prep school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, where he played alongside current Buffalo Sabre Tyler Myers, also a defenceman.

Brian Guebert

Guebert attended Lutheran Collegiate Bible Institute in Outlook, Saskatchewan, where his team won the six-man Saskatchewan High School Provincial Football Championship in 1998.

Bunny hug

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

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The CCPA is based in Ottawa but has branch offices in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Regina, Toronto and Halifax.

Chipewyan people

170 km southeast of Uranium City (Tsókı̨në), formerly known as 'Stony Rapids (Dëschághë) Band.

CJFB-TV

It was broadcast on channel 5, cable 9 in Swift Current, channel 10 in Riverhurst, channel 2 in Cypress Hills, channel 3 in Ponteix, channel 2 in Eastend, channel 7 in Shaunavon, and channel 2 in Val Marie.

Clément Chartier

Previously, he was president of Métis Nation—Saskatchewan (1998–2003), and turned over the office to interim president Lorna Docken when he became president of the Metis National Council.

Da Vinci Project

The da Vinci Project initially announced that it would fly first on October 2, 2004, launching from Kindersley, Saskatchewan.

Davidson Leader

The Davidson Leader is a weekly newspaper serving the communities of Davidson, Girvin, Bladworth, Kenaston, Hanley, Dundurn, Elbow, Loreburn, Imperial, and Craik in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Don S. Williams

In the following year (1958), Williams accepted a one-year contract at the CKRM radio station in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Donavon

Donavon, Saskatchewan, hamlet in Montrose Rural Municipality 315, Saskatchewan, Canada

Earl Robertson

Earl Cooper "Robbie" Robertson (b. November 24, 1910 in Bengough, Saskatchewan – d. January 19, 1979) was a professional ice hockey goaltender who played 190 games in the National Hockey League.

Ecclesiastical Provinces and Dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada

Qu'Appelle (Saskatchewan; corresponding to the pre-1905 District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories),

Elmer Driedger

He attended elementary school in Osler and high school in Rosthern.

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.

Fox Valley

Fox Valley, Saskatchewan, a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

Fujioka, Gunma

Fujioka has sister cities in Hakui (Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan), Regina (Canada), Jiang Yin (China) and Bend (Oregon, United States).

Gary Leeman

He attended Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan and was a standout defenceman for two seasons with the WHL's Regina Pats where he was voted the league's Top Defenceman and a First Team All-Star.

Gay Caswell

She was born Gay White in Davidson, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Eric W. White and Ann Patricia Foster.

George Ramsay Cook

George Ramsay Cook, OC, FRSC (born November 28, 1931 in Alameda, Saskatchewan), is a Canadian historian and general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Girl Authority

The group had also considered three other songs before choosing the winning song: Marissa from Ontario, Canada and her song "To Be the One to Find Me", Charlotte from Saskatchewan, Canada with her song, "My Friends Bring Out the Best in Me" and Brook from Illinois with her song, "We're Going Outside Tonight".

Gord Kluzak

Gordon Glen Kluzak (born March 4, 1964 in Climax, Saskatchewan) is a retired NHL defenceman who played his entire abbreviated career for the Boston Bruins, and is now a broadcaster for the team.

Gord Kluzak grew up on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, and attended high school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame.

Gordon Edwin Dirks

Dirks went on to earn a diploma in Educational Administration and a MEd from the University of Regina and continued his studies at the Canadian Bible College and Theological Seminary in Regina.

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

CPR occupied the more populous southern route in the prairies through Regina, Saskatchewan and Calgary, Alberta to Vancouver, British Columbia and was using land grants provided by the federal government as well as government incentives to draw immigrants and businesses to settle along its route.

Grant Devine

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he received a B.Sc. in Agriculture degree specializing in Agricultural Economics in 1967 from the University of Saskatchewan, an M.Sc. specializing in Agricultural Economics in 1969 from the University of Alberta, an M.B.A. from the University of Alberta in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Ohio State University in 1976.

Grant Erickson

Grant Charles Erickson (born April 28, 1947 in Pierceland, Saskatchewan) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 266 games in the World Hockey Association and 6 games in the National Hockey League.

Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre

At least one important post was established under his command; that being Fort Le Jonquière on the Saskatchewan River (probably in the Nipawin, Saskatchewan area).

James Latos

James "Jim" Latos (born January 4, 1966 in Wakaw, Saskatchewan) is a former professional ice hockey coach and player.

Jim Neilson

James Anthony "Chief" Neilson (born November 28, 1941 in Big River, Saskatchewan) was a National Hockey League defenceman for the New York Rangers, California Golden Seals and Cleveland Barons and completed his career in the World Hockey Association.

Jim O'Neil

James Beaton "Peggy" O'Neil (April 3, 1912 – October 17, 1997) was born in Semans, Saskatchewan, and was professional ice hockey player.

Joe Colborne

Standing five feet, nine inches tall as a 15-year-old, Colborne played a season of midget hockey with the Notre Dame Hounds in Wilcox, Saskatchewan before being recruited by the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL).

John Russell Kowalchuk

Kowalchuck was reeve for the rural municipality of Stanley from 1964 to 1966.

Josh Miller

Miller recorded a "single" in the 83rd Grey Cup when a punt, aided by a 50-km/h wind at Taylor Field in Regina, Saskatchewan bounded over the head of a Calgary Stampeders return man and out the back of the end zone to award Baltimore a single point.

Kim Trew

He was born in Kyle, Saskatchewan and educated at the University of Regina, receiving a certificate in personnel administration.

Lady Lake

Lady Lake, Saskatchewan, a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan

Lawrence Lake

Lawrence Lake (Saskatchewan), in the southwestern part of the province in or near the municipality Arlington No. 79

Leslie Hall Pinder

Born in Elrose, Saskatchewan, she earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of Saskatchewan and Dalhousie University in 1968.

Little Red River

Little Red River (Saskatchewan), a small river in central Saskatchewan which joins the North Saskatchewan River in Prince Albert

Lois Rodden

Lois was born on May 22, 1928 at 12:22 am MST (rectified by her) in Lang, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Lynn R. Williams

In 1956, Lynn joined the Steelworkers staff and worked in Regina, Saskatchewan, the Niagara Peninsula and Toronto.

Marc Habscheid

Marc Joseph Habscheid (born March 1, 1963 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan and raised in Wymark, Saskatchewan) is a former National Hockey League forward and current head coach and general manager of the Victoria Royals of the Western Hockey League.

Michael Bzdel

Bzdel was born to Ukrainian immigrants in Wishart, Saskatchewan, Canada, on July 21, 1930, the 11th of 14 children in his family.

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.

Miklos Kanitz

Miklos Samual Kanitz (1939–2006) was a Hungarian-Canadian Holocaust survivor living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Missionaries of La Salette

At the request of Archbishop Langevin of St. Boniface, Canada, a few members were sent from the mother-house in Hartford to establish themselves in West Canada with headquarters at Forget, Saskatchewan from where they served in four parishes.

Monique Mercure

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

Moosomin

Moosomin, Saskatchewan –a town in Saskatchewan named after Chief Moosomin

Morgan Rielly

Before entering the WHL, Rielly played midget hockey for the Notre Dame Hounds in Wilcox, Saskatchewan.

Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali

In 1932, Al-Jamali was married to Sarah Powell (February 22, 1908—March 3, 2000), who was born in Saskatchewan, Canada to American parents.

Murder of Reena Virk

Glowatski and his parents moved around frequently prior to their separation in 1996; he lived in Estevan and Regina, Saskatchewan, and Castlegar, British Columbia.

Nine-man football

A similar nine-man modification of Canadian football is played on 100-yard fields (as opposed to the 110-yard standard field for that sport) by small schools in the province of Saskatchewan and has been proposed, but not yet adopted, in Alberta.

Northgate, North Dakota

The community is adjacent to the U.S. border with Canada, and it shares its name with the neighboring Canadian settlement of Northgate, Saskatchewan.

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.

Osler

Osler, Saskatchewan is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan named after Edmund Boyd Osler.

Palliser Regional Park

Palliser Regional Park is a located about 10 minutes from the town of Riverhurst, Saskatchewan.

Pemmican War

In 1774 they built Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan River delta and soon had outposts situated throughout the northwest, in some cases directly across from their adversaries, sparking a period of severe competition.

Peter Anton Howe

Howe came north to Saskatchewan with his parents, who settled near Foam Lake in 1904.

Player One

Each of the book's five chapters was delivered as a one hour lecture in a different Canadian city: Vancouver on October 12, Regina on October 14, Charlottetown on October 19, Ottawa on October 25 and ending in Toronto on October 29.

Prairie River railway station

The Prairie River railway station, located in the hamlet of Prairie River within the rural municipality of Porcupine No. 395, Saskatchewan, was built by the Canadian Northern Railway.

Pro-cathedral

In Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, the parish church of Saint Peter's was the pro-cathedral for the Anglican southern Saskatchewan diocese until 1944.

RCAF Station Assiniboia

RCAF Station Assiniboia was a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) flying training station located near Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Canada.

RCAF Station Mossbank

RCAF Station Mossbank was home to No. 2 Bombing and Gunnery School, a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan training facility located near Mossbank, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Riel Rebellion

The Riel Rebellion (or more precisely Riel Rebellions) is the name often given to two uprisings led by Louis Riel in what are now Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Rocky Trottier

Rocky Trottier (born April 11, 1964 in Climax, Saskatchewan) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 38 games in the National Hockey League.

Ronald McLelland

Ronald David McLelland (born 27 March 1926 at Loreburn, Saskatchewan) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Roy A. Gibson

Gibson was employed by a flour milling company, then was hired by the Department of the Interior in Regina in 1908, later serving as Assistant Deputy Minister, and worked for the Department of Mines and Resources from 1936 to 1947, serving as director of the Lands and Forests branch.

Rudy Wiebe

Wiebe was born at Speedwell, near Fairholme, Saskatchewan in what would later become his family’s chicken barn.

Section Twelve of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The section has generated some case law, including the essential case R. v. Smith (1987), in which it was partially defined, and R. v. Latimer (2001), a famous case in which Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer protested that his long, mandatory minimum sentence for the murder of his disabled daughter was cruel and unusual.

Shayne Toporowski

Shayne Angelo Toporowski (born August 6, 1975 in Paddockwood, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.

Sidney Merlin Spidell

He was born in Parkdale, Nova Scotia, the son of Sidney Freeman Spidell and Lucinda Ann Saunders, and was educated in Parkdale, in Mortlach, Saskatchewan and at the University of Saskatchewan.

Sir John Pelly, 1st Baronet

In Saskatchewan, the HBC post, Fort Pelly bears his name, as well as the unincorporated town of Pelly.

Telebus

The city of Regina in Canada was one of the early pioneers of Telebus services.

The Battlefords

The Battlefords is the collective name given to two adjacent communities in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada.

Thomas Henry McConica

He served two years as registrar for the court in Kerrobert.

Two of his sons had settled in Luseland, Saskatchewan and McConica and his wife joined them there in 1909.

Todd Strueby

Todd Kenneth Strueby (born June 15, 1963 in Lanigan, Saskatchewan and raised in Humboldt, Saskatchewan) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played most of his career in the minor leagues.

Topfreedom in Canada

In 1997, a 64 year old woman, Evangeline Godron together with Kathleen Rice were sunbathing in a Regina park and charged.

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.

Unconventional oil

A bitumen upgrader is under construction at Fort McMurray, Alberta to supply syngas to replace natural gas, and there were proposals to build nuclear reactors using fuel from nearby Uranium City, Saskatchewan to supply steam and electricity.

Vernon Barford

Having failed entrance exams to Oxford University, he moved in 1898 to Qu'Appelle, District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories (most which became the southern third in territory, half of population, of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1905 after his departure).

Victory No. 226, Saskatchewan

The hamlet of Demaine was established by the summer of 1908 by a band of settlers who hauled supplies from the Riverhurst area to the east, and across the South Saskatchewan River.

Wade Regehr

Born in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Regehr attended the University of Regina in Canada, then received his Ph.D. at Caltech in applied physics with David Rutledge.

Wascana Centre

Excavation of the lake was performed by Dominion Construction of Regina and Broda Construction of Kamsack.

Westby, Montana

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

William James Gilbert Allen

He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, the son of Alfred B. Allen and Delores M. Holmes, and was educated there, at St. Peter's College and at the University of 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

Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island

In 1935, Prime Minister MacKenzie King brought Saskatchewan politician Charles A. Dunning back into federal politics to economically resurrect the nation from the Great Depression and appointed him Minister of Finance.

Wood Mountain

Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, a village in Old Post Rural Municipality 43, Saskatchewan, Canada


1984 CFL Draft

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

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>.

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.

Charlene Fernetz

Fernetz was born on a large farm in the center of Saskatchewan, Canada, and studied Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology; but in 1990 it was while doing regional theater in Portland, Oregon, that she caught the eye of a Manager from Los Angeles, and within months she was a guest on the Showtime series, Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House.

CKCK

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

CKRC

CKRC-FM, a radio station (103.5 FM) licensed to Weyburn, 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.

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.

Donald McPherson

Donald Mighton McPherson, Canadian sports executive, businessman and politician in Saskatchewan

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.

Frank Kusch

Kusch has earned a Ph.D from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a Master's Degree from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

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.

Jacob Smith

Jacob W. Smith (1851–1926), businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada

Kandahar, Saskatchewan

Kandahar is a small hamlet on Highway 16 near Wynyard, Saskatchewan, Canada, named by Canadian Pacific Railway executives in the late 19th century for a British military victory in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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

Norcanair

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

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.

Rita Wong

There is also a poem, 'canola queasy' dedicated to Percy Schmeiser, the Saskatchewan farmer sued by Monsanto because he intentionally propagated genetically engineered canola that had blown into his fields.

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.

Sask Gaming

In October 2008, the Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation was named one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers" by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.

Saskatchewan general election, 1982

This election included the Aboriginal People's Party, a party focused on issues affecting Saskatchewan's First Nations.

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.

The Johner Brothers

Brothers Ken Johner and Brad Johner grew up in Saskatchewan playing music in their family band.

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.

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

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.

YourLink

The company sees itself as an alternative to dial-up internet for rural residents, primarily in Saskatchewan, but elsewhere in Canada, as well, where cable companies would not usually venture (due to the low density in potential customers), and serves high-speed internet via WiMax, DOCSIS, MikroTik and Motorola Canopy high-speed wireless internet.