City of Toronto Archives During the summer of 2025, I drove 6,000 kilometres around western Canada. I visited the World’s Largest Beaver in Beaverlodge, stood on the Canada-US border at the International Peace Garden, walked along The Great Wall of...
After Charles Dunning moved on to federal politics in the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King, James Garfield Gardiner came along to assume the role of Saskatchewan’s fourth premier. Gardiner was born on Nov. 30, 1883 in South Huron, Ontario...
In the first decade of Saskatchewan’s existence, there was only one premier, Thomas Walter Scott, but in the next decade, there were two. The first was William Melville Martin, and the second is the person we are covering today, Charles Avery...
After the resignation of Saskatchewan’s first premier, a new man took the top job, William Melville Martin. Martin was born in Norwich, Ontario on Aug. 23, 1876. As a child, he was educated at Exeter Public School and Clinton Collegiate. When he...
Thomas Walter Scott After Saskatchewan became a province in 1905, the first man to sit in the big chair as premier was Thomas Walter Scott. So let’s dive into the life, of that first premier of the prairie province. Thomas Walter Scott was born on...