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...
Government of Saskatchewan In 1929, the long run of the Liberals winning elections dating back to 1905 came to an end when the Conservatives won their first election. At the head of the party was James Milton Anderson, the first Conservative premier...
Library and Archives Canada 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...
Painting by Iris Hauser 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...
Saskatchewan Archives Board 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...